Martha Yee wrote:
> I have written elsewhere about the fact that our rules and our cataloging
> data are already considerably FRBR-ized and that what is lacking for the
> creation of true FRBR-ized catalogs is adequate software support.
Martha, you and I have discussed this at length, so you know that I
disagree that the problem lies with systems. It is true that
bibliographic records are very rich and contain a lot of important data.
However, as long as bib data continues to be expressed as text strings
that require human interpretation, systems will NOT be able to make use
of the underlying concepts. This is one of the great errors in the RDA
drafts that we have seen: the bibliographic description continues to be
textual in nature, with relationships left as implicit in that text. We
need rules that can make explicit what today is implicit. And we need a
bibliographic record carrier that can carry those explicit expressions.
kc
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