Paula Goossens expands in her talk on the future of cataloging. Library catalogs were born in the previous century. We still build on the card catalog as a heritage system. In the future controlled information will be used to make the uncontrolled data more intelligent, by which she means that authority files from the library world can be, and should be used in descriptive bibliographic data such as Amazon, LibraryThing and Google (Books).
She shows the current cataloging rules such as ISBD and AACR2 and the like, and pleads for getting rid of these old rules and create new rules ready for the 21st century.
New guidelines are for instance Statement of international cataloging principles (IFLA) or RDA (mainly from the anglosaxon world). RDA is written as web tool. She describes the slow progress that is being made, but progress nevertheless. She is positive on the future and wants the catalog to be used more intensively on the Web.
Library catalogs born in the 20th century? Does Callimachus know? The IFLA principles are an update of the 1961 Paris Principles, but they return to the foundations of Panizzi (ca. 1840). And how can someone plead for getting rid of AACR2 in favor of RDA (=AACR3, but not mainly from the Anglo-American world).
Is this a true representation of what was being said?