[rak-list] (Fwd) [RDA-L] Please visit RDA Test Website

[Armin Stephan]

Die genannte URL leitet auf eine Seite weiter, auf der man lesen kann:

In response to concerns about RDA raised by the Library of Congress 
Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, the three U.S. 
national libraries--the Library of Congress (LC), the National Library of 
Medicine (NLM) and the National Agricultural Library (NAL)--made a 
commitment to the further development and completion of RDA.  The three 
libraries agreed to make a joint decision on whether or not to implement 
RDA, based on the results of a test of both RDA and the Web product.  The 
goal of the test is to assure the operational, technical, and economic 
feasibility of RDA.  Testers will include the three national libraries and the 
broader U.S. library community.

Bin doch ziemlich verblüfft über die Formulierung "whether or not to 
implement RDA".

Wenn ich das richtig verstehe, wollen die amerikanischen 
Nationalbibliotheken den Einsatz der RDA abhängig machen von einem 
groß angelegten Test, an dem sich die "library community" beteiligen soll.

Ich bin ja nun kein Insider, was das amerikanische Bibliothekswesen 
angeht, aber es scheint mir dennoch eher unwahrscheinlich, dass die 
Ablehnung der Einführung der RDA durch die Library of Congress kein 
Problem wäre für die Akzeptanz des Regelwerkes in den Staaten.


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The US National Libraries RDA Test Steering Committee has launched a
Website for the RDA test project, at URL

http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/rda/ 

The site includes a link to a fill-in PDF application form that you
can
use to let us know if you're interested in being selected as a test
partner.

The Test Steering Committee received excellent comments about the
project after the RDA Test Planning Forum at ALA Midwinter in
Denver.
As a result of this feedback, we realized that we needed to ask for
more
precise information from the potential test participants.  So we
revised
the application form and made it available on the RDA Test Planning
Website.  Please complete and return the form, even if you submitted
an
expression of interest earlier.

The Website also has links to a proposed timeline and to the
methodology
that the Steering Committee plans to use for the testing.  We'll
update
the site with additional information as we develop a complete test
protocol.  

Thank you very much for your interest in the US National Libraries
RDA
Test project.  We look forward to hearing from you.  As the
application
form states, we're requesting that anyone interested in participating
as
a test partner return the PDF application, via email, by April 13 to
Susan Morris.  The email link in the form will return it to Susan.
Please get in touch with her if you have any questions or if there
is
any problem with the PDF.  

Susan R. Morris
Special Assistant to the Director for Acquisitions and Bibliographic
Access
Library of Congress     
voice: 202-707-6073
fax: 202-252-3220

For the US National Libraries RDA Test Steering Committee: co-chairs
Chris Cole, Dianne McCutcheon, and Beacher Wiggins          
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Mit freundlichen Gruessen
Armin Stephan
Jefe de Biblioteca
Augustana-Hochschule / Bibliothek
D-91564 Neuendettelsau
Tel. 09874/509-300
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