Re: Full RDA implementation report available

From: Simon Spero <ses_at_nyob>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:24:41 -0400
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
I am having some difficulty reading the report because the PDF viewer I'm
using doesn't display the text that's written between the lines.

It does not seem clear that the most important tests  were passed; it's hard
to tell how much expectation there is that the  conditions precedent will be
met.

I haven't looked at the F/I/S/O tests in detail yet;  but on the creation
side,  the  level of support for US adoption from the informal testers is
worrying (44% no, 12% yes, 10% yes with changes, ) (Appendix E).

These numbers need to be taken with a grain of salt, and there was stronger
support from the formal test group.

The figures for the the formal testers are somewhat confusing as well, due
to the absence of an ambivalent/no opinion choice on the version of this
question provided by individual record creators.

Eliminating Ambivalent and Yes-with-changes we get

             Yes   No
Creator      55%   45%
Institution  71%   29%
Informal     21%   79%

However, if we sum ambivalent with yes-with-changes, we get

Creators       45%
Institutions   52%
Informal       44%

This makes the effects of the forced choice in the creators survey hard to
interpret.

Simon

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Alexander Johannesen <
alexander.johannesen_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 1:13 AM, Diane Boehr <dboehr_at_comcast.net> wrote:
> > http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/rda/
>
> "The Coordinating Committee wrestled with articulating a business case for
> implementing RDA. "
>
> Ouch.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Alex
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