For a Dev8d session I did with Owen Stephens in February I presented data for a single book and followed how it had changed as standards changed, trying above to explain to non-cataloguers why catalogue records look and work the…
How big is my book: Mashcat session
At Mashcat on 5 July in Cambridge I gave an afternoon session on getting computer readable information from the textual information held in MARC21 300 fields using Javascript and regular expressions. I intended this to be useful for cataloguers who…
RDA as a closed standard
Resource Description and Access (RDA), the new bibliographic standard to replace AACR2, was released in 2010 on the web as a closed standard sitting behind a paywall. This really worries me. I strongly believe it should be an open standard.…