repositories for the rest of us: Funny

2007/09/25: Funny

metadata.net doesn't list RDA as a resource discovery/description metadata initiative. To be fair, the site hasn't been updated for a year. Also, they have METS, MODS, and CIMI listed, as well as a link to IFLA's list of metadata initiatives, so they're not completely ignorant of librariana.

It's just sort of interesting to ponder the oversight as one considers the relevance of RDA outside of the library world. metadata.net, fwiw, is run by the MAENAD project, which was(is?) a metadata research project run by the venerable Jane Hunter, a leading researcher in metadata issues for complex digital objects.

Is it an act of hubris to reach out to other communities with the expectation that they will leap to adopt our "standard"?

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