1. RDA, RDE, or what? By: Darrell J. Siebert (NHM, London) Laurence Livermore (NHM, London) Andrew Brown (Ke Software, Melbourne)

2. What the RDA isn’t!

3. So what is it? 2 examples: –Palaeontology drawer project (index) –Label transcription Ans: browser based workflow interface for EMu

4. Digital Collections Programme mission: ‘digitise the collections in 10 years’ Discipline Size of Collection Database Events Images Required Botany 6,000,000 Entomology 35,000,000 Mineralogy 600,000 Palaeontology 9,000,0002,000,0001,000,000 Zoology 25,000,0004,000,0001,000,000 Total75,600,00047,600,00043,600,000

6. Label transcription – ‘verbatim’ entry (rapid?) to type of information

7. ‘Verbatim’ transcription: what next?

8. Label transcription: ‘normalisation’ (Editor)

9. Editor results – listed on ecat Normalisation tab

10. Palaeontology drawer project (index)

11. Palaeontology drawer index: Location record update

12. Documentation

13. Documentation: usage

14. Documentation:forms

15. Editor form

16. Security – some surprises sometime

17. IMu toolkit Simplified user experience – Palaeontology drawer project Complicated workflows – decoupling components (simplification) Crowd sourcing platform -- transcription