Laura-

Yes, that diagram is awesome! It does a great job of dividing up the standards by several different axes. I think the Function section in particular is what I didn't figure out on my own, mostly because I always assumed those functions were all contained in a single standard instead of split across several.

-Esme
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Esme Cowles <[log in to unmask]>

"...the ridiculous mix of the grand and pathetic, the painfully self-aware
 and the mockworthy clueless spiritual state that has gotten us so far
 ahead and so sadly behind the rest of the world." -- Joey Sweeney, Salon

On 07 20, 2011, at 5:47 PM, Laura Smart wrote:

> Esme (and all)
> 
> Would Jenn Riley & Devin Becker's metadata standards visualization
> have been helpful to you if it had been available back in the day?
> http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/~jenlrile/metadatamap/
> 
> Perhaps a detailed sub-set thereof?
> 
> Perhaps at minimum a glossary of acronyms commonly tossed about by
> catalogers?  I'd write one but I think I'd be tempted to be snarky
> when trying to explain RDA in brief...
> 
> Laura
> 
> PS re: SAGE, I'd heard.  That it was useful/used for so long is a
> testament to the your development and programming skills and those of
> Chris Fryman and Brian Tingle. I raise my glass!   For the peanut
> gallery - SAGE was UCSD Lib's home-grown database of web resources
> that pub services librarians used to create subject-guides on the fly
> and was a thing of beauty to behold.  Would that all software
> developers do use cases, functional requirements, rapid
> prototyping/agile development, and usability testing so well!
> 
> PPS: sorry to all for the somewhat personal communications couched in
> a public list discussion. The opportunity to publicly sing the praises
> of the excellent programmers I've been privileged to work with was too
> tempting to pass up.
> 
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Cowles, Esme <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Laura-
>> 
>> One of the things I wish someone had explained to me at the beginning is all the different metadata standards we use and how they fit together.  I'd been working with MARC metadata for years before anyone explained what AACR2 was, or various other controlled vocabulary content standards.  In fact, I think it wasn't until I was in a meeting with librarians explaining our metadata to non-library people that I heard a lot of things spelled out.
>> 
>> 
>> BTW, you might be interested to know that, after many years of faithful service, Sage is going to be decommissioned this Fall.
>>