Comments on: Testing! Testing?

By: Holly Harper

Holly Harper — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 18:01:58 +0000

What happened with this testing business? I am a newcomer to the discussion, and I see word of this testing everywhere, and from the timeline posted here, http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/rda/timeline.html the testing should be underway (right?), but I see nothing. Any help or direction would be appreciated.

By: Shirley

Shirley — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:51:04 +0000

I’d be interested, and I’ll be on sabbatical for 12-months starting July 1, 2009, so I’ll have some time.

Shirley
http://www.wou.edu/~lincics

By: Elizabeth Madson

Elizabeth Madson — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:50:59 +0000

The list of U.S. National Library RDA Test Partners is posted: http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/rda/test-partners.html

By: Diane Hillmann

Diane Hillmann — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:50:54 +0000

Good question, Kathy, but I just don’t know the answer. It would be nice if the LC site supported RSS feeds, so we didn’t have to keep poking at it to see if there’s anything new …

By: Kathy Winzer

Kathy Winzer — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:25:06 +0000

So has a list of all the testing partners been released? Does it really take that long to notify 90 people/institutions whether or not they are part of the testing?

By: Heidi Hoerman

Heidi Hoerman — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:11:10 +0000

From seeing who the few testers are that are being announced, I don’t think RDA will be tested as a cataloging code but rather that transfer of ONIX data in a controlled corporate environment will be the important subtext. Or have I been spending too much time reading political links on Huffington Post and therefore too prone right now to see the subtext and miss the central point?

By: Shawne Miksa

Shawne Miksa — Sun, 31 May 2009 05:46:27 +0000

Well, let’s not let this cloud over everything. Personally, I think they were overwhelmed with applicants and its a matter of getting the biggest bang for the buck–if there is any buck going towards any of it. (I do know that a school district here in Texas was chosen–the only school library setting chosen, I believe–and I’m proud to say one of my doctoral students is heading that up.)

And, Diane is right in that we may very well skew the data. However, I don’t see that our being dinged from this one test should hold of us back from testing any part of RDA on our own, as we are all stakeholders in it.

So, keep that faith up, I say. Methinks we put too much onto LC’s shoulders.

By: Chris Schwartz

Chris Schwartz — Sat, 30 May 2009 22:51:13 +0000

Diane, I am so surprised that you and Shawne got “dinged” from being part of the RDA Test Project. Makes no sense.

If you set up an alternative test, I’d be glad to participate creating sample metadata records.

By: Diane Hillmann

Diane Hillmann — Sat, 30 May 2009 15:22:34 +0000

Well, to be fair, I can see an argument for not having people like me and Shawne creating records–we’d most likely skew the results. But not to want us looking at the data that comes out, and helping to measure compliance? That makes no sense to me at all, and of course, if Shawne’s ding letter was the same as mine, she got no real explanation about why she was rejected … with regrets, of course!

Jonathan, can I sign you up for the “Alternative Test?” It’d be great to have some folks with developer chops working with us on this.

By: Jonathan Rochkind

Jonathan Rochkind — Sat, 30 May 2009 12:13:35 +0000

This makes no sense at all. The chair of the RDA implementation task force, and the chair of the RDA-DCMI taskforce… don’t get included in testing? Man. My faith in RDA ending up anywhere is not getting any larger.