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Comments on RDA
Mikael Nilsson
[email protected]
The Knowledge Management Research Group
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
http://kmr.nada.kth.se
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“Resource”
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What's a resource?
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Book, person, publisher, Location, Event, etc, etc, etc
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Most current formats clump many together
The DC one-to-one principle
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One resource, one description
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Needs a good data model
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“Description”
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Describing
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“assisting those who create metadata”
Descriptions
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What do we think metadata is?
Objective?
 Produced once?
 Contained?
 Just labeled text?
 index?
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“access”
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Who's accessing?
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Librarians, users, software?
Who's RDA for?
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Librarians?
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Implementers?
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Content producers? (Teachers, students, etc)
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One spec?
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Monolithic specs in this field doomed to failure
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Take too long to produce
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Won't take into account important needs of domains
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Application profiles a good idea
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Needs framework to be “specializable”
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