Re: Missing historical record of comments on RDA?

Tom and others


JSC are looking into this; I will email the list if there are any developments.
 
Cheers
 
Gordon

 

On 04 October 2010 at 22:38 Thomas Baker <tbaker@tbaker.de> wrote:

> 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