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See also the thread, 'RDA: A Standard Nobody Will Notice'.

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A standard nobody will notice ... for good reason. 

Rob

On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 18:24 +0100, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
> On Apr 7, 2009, at 1:15 PM, Karen Coyle wrote:
> 
> > Absolutely. The catalogers are still creating a textual document, not
> > data. At best you can mark up the text, as we do with the MARC  
> > record...
> 
> 
> Listen...  What you hear from over here is the sound of a very heavy  
> sigh coming from a computer type who really wants to help improve the  
> way library data is used in a networked environment, but they can't  
> convince their own to modify the way they encode information.
>