Apologies for duplication.
-Shana
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Subject: [PCCLIST] PCC Statement on the LC/NAL/NLM RDA Implementation
decision
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 06:40:34 -0700
From: Riemer, John <jriemer_at_LIBRARY.UCLA.EDU>
Reply-To: Program for Cooperative Cataloging <PCCLIST_at_LISTSERV.LOC.GOV>
To: PCCLIST_at_LISTSERV.LOC.GOV
The PCC affirms its support of the US national libraries' decision to
implement RDA, slated to be no sooner than January 2013, and looks
forward to collaborating with them in this effort.
Among the anticipated benefits for user discovery and access are making
the FRBR model more of a reality, making metadata more
machine-actionable, supporting the semantic web, making data more
internationally understandable (e.g. by un-abbreviating), lifting the
rule of 3, and others.
PCC has already formed three task groups on RDA
<http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/> to begin preparing for this transition,
and others will be formed as warranted. The PCC Policy Committee will
also be preparing a set of PCC RDA FAQs to be posted on the PCC RDA web
site. PCC's goal during the shift to RDA is to develop and foster
effective and efficient means of implementing a new set of rules, while
gaining a maximum amount of benefits from them.
The PCC Post RDA Test Guidelines
<http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/PCC-Post-RDA-Test.html> remain in effect
until further notice.
Please feel free to distribute this statement further.
John
John Riemer
Head, UCLA Library Cataloging & Metadata Center
Kinross South
11020 Kinross Avenue
Box 957230
(campus mail code 723011)
Los Angeles, CA 90095-7230
+1 310.825.2901 voice
+1 310.794.9357 fax
jriemer_at_library.ucla.edu <mailto:jriemer_at_library.ucla.edu>
Received on Wed Jun 15 2011 - 10:11:03 EDT