Quoting Jon Phipps <jonphipps_at_gmail.com>:
> As for some of the things we're doing with the RDA vocabularies, it's not
> really 'in spite of' RDA. RDA's simultaneous backward-looking,
> forward-looking viewpoint provides an opportunity for us to explore the
> opportunities presented by that orientation, and maybe provide some guidance
> to folks looking to integrate closed-world library data silos with the
> open-world, on both sides of that fence.
This definitely categorizes you as a "glass half full" person to my
usual "glass half empty." :-) I still go with the "in spite of" -- but
as usual the proof will be in the pudding.
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Received on Thu Nov 12 2009 - 18:02:13 EST