Standards, catalog records and special collections: a few words about the RBSCS Metadata Working Group
For those in love with rare books and special collections, finding a good catalogue is always good news. No matter if it’s a latest generation database with links to high quality digital reproductions, a common online catalogue or a dusty printed bibliography half hidden in a shady shelf, if it’s good, it’s a treasure. And good (regardless of format, date, cataloguing rules, encoding format and usually even language) means that, thanks to it, the reader will easily identify and retrieve the document she or he is looking for. That’s why, in a profession in constant evolution, where traditional rare books...
