Re: OCLC response to SkyRiver lawsuit

From: Jonathan Rochkind <rochkind_at_nyob>
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 13:03:05 -0400
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> It seems to me that it is that important, and one of the many reasons why I am so 
> concerned about implementing RDA. If the current standards are followed so poorly,
>  why will they do better with a standard that is at least as complicated, if not more so?

One of the explicit goals of RDA was coming up with standards simpler to follow, among other things by making them truly principle-based with understood principles. 

I share your skepticism that RDA has accomplished it's goals. 

Jonathan
Received on Sat Aug 07 2010 - 13:04:51 EDT