Linked data is one of our main reasons for moving to RDA, especially as we will soon be going live with the Ebsco Discovery Service. We felt that this made it all the more important to be able to describe relationships wherever possible.
We are still using the 245 $h at present as we need to display icons for all media types - I don't really fully understand the function of the 33X fields to be honest, certainly in terms of the public face of the library.
Jenny
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Sent: 13 January 2014 11:31
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Subject: Re: [CIG-E-FORUM] Who was/is involved in the decision/preparation? Did you have to justify it to senior managers
Our case for implementation centred on the need for investing in future
infrastructure. It is our policy to align with the standards used by
Library of Congress where possible in order to benefit from U.S.
cataloguing copy. We also find that electronic media can be catalogued
more effectively using RDA. Potential benefits include the use of RDA in
a linked data context. RDA places more emphasis on and includes more
scope for recording and describing relationships than AACR does.
Thurstan
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Rose-Ann Movsovic
Sent: 13 January 2014 11:08
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Subject: Re: [CIG-E-FORUM] Who was/is involved in the
decision/preparation? Did you have to justify it to senior managers
I had to explain that we really had no choice as records available for
downloading would cease to be available in AACR2, a bit like the
argument for moving from UKMARC to MARC21 all those years ago.
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Williams
Sent: 13 January 2014 11:01
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Subject: [CIG-E-FORUM] Who was/is involved in the decision/preparation?
Did you have to justify it to senior managers
Sorry, I'm re-sending this with the question in the subject field so
that it's easier to follow.
Helen
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Sent: 13 January 2014 11:00
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Subject: RE: RDA at Wellcome
Thanks June
You mentioning needing the approval of Senior Management leads nicely
into another question for our session this morning, which is Who was
involved in the decision/preparation for implementing RDA?
Did you have to 'justify' it to senior managers?
A few people have already mentioned that the cost of the toolkit has
been a prohibitive factor, and this follows on from that a bit as well.
Helen
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Sent: 13 January 2014 10:33
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Subject: [CIG-E-FORUM] RDA at Wellcome
Good morning everyone.
At Wellcome we have been downloading RDA records for a while but haven't
yet done any original cataloguing in RDA. Where records are available as
either AACR2 or RDA we would take the RDA record but if the AACR2 one
looks better we would take that instead. We don't convert AACR2 records
to RDA.
I had planned to implement RDA fully this Spring but the preparation is
proving to be quite overwhelming as we have so many other projects going
on. I also have to get the approval of our Senior Management Team before
anything can, officially, happen.
June
June Tomlinson
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