Will wonders never cease?

From Karen Coyle:

As a result of a meeting at the British Library on April 30 and May 1, it has been announced that RDA and Dublin Core communities will work together in the following ways:

  • develop a formal RDA Element vocabulary (probably following the DC Abstract Model)
  • develop an application profile of RDA for Dublin Core using FRBR and FRAD
  • use RDF and SKOS to disclose RDA vocabularies (see Diane Hillmann’s work on this)

The document lists the “benefits” as:

  • the library community gets a metadata standard that is compatible with the Web Architecture and that is fully interoperable with other Semantic Web initiatives
  • the DCMI community gets a libraries application profile firmly based on the DCAM and FRBR (which will be a high profile exemplar for others to follow)
  • the Semantic Web community get a significant pool of well thought-out metadata terms to re-use there is wider uptake of RDA

    Karen, who was at the meeting, asked Diane Hillmann for further clarification on some of the points listed above.

    Read Karen’s entire blog posting here.