1. The Knowledge Management Research Group 1 Comments on RDA Mikael Nilsson mini@nada.kth.se The Knowledge Management Research Group Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm http://kmr.nada.kth.se

2. The Knowledge Management Research Group 2 Resource What's a resource? Book, person, publisher, Location, Event, etc, etc, etc Most current formats clump many together The DC one-to-one principle One resource, one description Needs a good data model

3. The Knowledge Management Research Group 3 Description Describing assisting those who create metadata Descriptions What do we think metadata is? Objective? Produced once? Contained? Just labeled text? index?

4. The Knowledge Management Research Group 4 access Who's accessing? Librarians, users, software? Who's RDA for? Librarians? Implementers? Content producers? (Teachers, students, etc)

5. The Knowledge Management Research Group 5 One spec? Monolithic specs in this field doomed to failure Take too long to produce Won't take into account important needs of domains Application profiles a good idea Needs framework to be specializable