RIMMF, or, Cataloguing without MARC

Céline Carty, University of Cambridge

Linked Data: what cataloguers need to know #cigldCIG Event, 25 November 2013

RIMMF=

RDA In Many Metadata Formats

RIMMF is…

…a visualization tool for cataloguers, to help them to get used to thinking of RDA, instead of thinking AACR/MARC

…a cataloguing training tool, to help teach RDA, and so FRBR, thinking

RIMMF is not…

…a real cataloguing tool (you can’t use the records in your library management system)

Work, Expression, Manifestation, Item descriptions are all separate but linked

Persons, corporate bodies, subject and other entities also separate but linked

Download RIMMF:

http://www.marcofquality.com/wiki/rimmf/

See also…

… current non-MARC input systems

… next gen systems with non-MARC options

… the future!