Re: Missing historical record of comments on RDA?

On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 10:11:45PM +0100, Gordon Dunsire wrote:
> The base URL for RDA documents was changed last year (or was it the year
> before?), from www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/jsc to www.rda-jsc.org - a straight
> subsitution "may" work for getting the new URLs, if you know what the original
> URL was.
>  
> Or you can follow the browsing list/trail:
>  
> 1.http://www.rda-jsc.org/working1.html gives a list of working documents [the
> Historic documents link in the side navbar takes you to really old, mostly
> pre-RDA stuff, such as the AACR3 that never was].
>  
> 2. Use any of these links to get to the PDFs which contain the original proposal
> (the link label) AND auxiliary documents such as constituency responses,
> comments, etc. In this case, the link label is 5JSC/RDA/Full draft (not quite
> the same as the URL!)
>  
> 3. Which gets you to http://www.rda-jsc.org/working2.html - and is a better
> place to start than 1.
>  
> 4. Then, in this case, find the label 5JSC/RDA/Full Draft/Chair follow-up/6
> [2009/02/02 - Germany]. The PDF symbol is the hyperlink to the document you
> want, which has the URL, as Dan says,
> http://www.rda-jsc.org/docs/5rda-fulldraft-chairfolup6.pdf (again, not quite the
> same as the label!!)

Thank you, Gordon!  Hmm, a note pointing from
www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/jsc to www.rda-jsc.org might
help...

> Members of the RDA constituencies use body-memory (let the fingers do the
> walking) to navigate through this ... ;-)

And the rest of us ask a mailing list... ;-)

Tom

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