This is the second of of two posts1 on the panel discussion “What role can RDA/RDF play in the transition to linked library data?” which took place during the fifth annual meeting of the BIBFRAME Workshop in Europe, and featured comments from five distinguished panelists. This post briefly summarizes and discusses comments provided by Dr. Sofia Zapounidou, a librarian at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and member of the Standing Committee of the IFLA Cataloguing Section.2 She was asked to respond to the following question during the event:
RDA has been painstakingly aligned with the LRM; BIBFRAME3 has not. One of the most talked-about areas of concern is the absence of an expression entity in BIBFRAME. Could this, or other incompatibilities between RDA and BIBFRAME, have significant impacts?
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