Ross Singer wrote:
> Well, there's the project by Alistair Miles that Karen alluded to earlier:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/code4rda
>
> The goals of this project are, in my mind, crucial in moving forward,
> since it's taking our existing corpus of records and turning them into
> RDA/RDF.  Not only is it a good proof of concept to show how these new
> data models would look and work (esp. how they would work w/r/t to
> current applications/workflows), but, more importantly, it shows it
> can be done *with our current data* alleviating the need for some
> unrealistic retrospective recataloging effort.
>
> I guess the way I look at it is, there's still time to fix this, at
> least technologically.  There is a difference between the standard,
> the data model and the application.
>   

An interesting experiment would be to attempt to use the cataloger's use 
cases that Alistair worked from, but instead of using the RDA vocabulary 
to use bibo+vocab.org/frbr. That would give us something comparative to 
look at. If bibo+frbr can do all or even a lot of what RDA does, then we 
can demonstrate a different model and explain why one is better than the 
other (or at least that more than one model will work).

kc

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