#1 30. May 2009, 12:29 am o'clock
Diane–I got ‘dinged’ as well, and I’m the current chair of the RDA Implementation Task Force. So, yes, some alternate testing would be nice.
#2 30. May 2009, 7:13 am o'clock
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.
#4 30. May 2009, 5:51 pm o'clock
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.
#5 31. May 2009, 12:46 am o'clock
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.
#6 1. June 2009, 7:11 am o'clock
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?
#7 1. June 2009, 11:25 am o'clock
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?
#9 8. June 2009, 4:50 pm o'clock
The list of U.S. National Library RDA Test Partners is posted: http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/rda/test-partners.html
#10 15. June 2009, 7:51 pm o'clock
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
#11 10. April 2010, 1:01 pm o'clock
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.
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.