Chinese Counterpart of ISO 5127 Published

The Chinese counterpart of ISO 5127 (Information and documentation -- Vocabulary) is published today:

《信息与文献 术语》 (Information and documentation -- Vocabulary) (ISO 5127:2001, MOD)（中华人民共和国国家标准，GB/T 4894—2009，代替GB/T 4894—1985, GB/T 13143—1991）（2009年9月30日发布，2010年2月1日实施）

I am one of the Working Group members during 2008-2009. I am glad to see that the Chinese National Standard is finally published.

Chinese National Standard for Bibliographic Description Released

Today, I received a copy of the new National Standard Bibliographic Description -- Part 1: General, published by Standards Press of China in January 2010.

It is based on ISBD(G) and ISBD Preliminary Consolidated Edition.

The Working Group for the Standard consists of four members:

HU Guangxiang (Chair) (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences),

LIU Xiaoling (National Library of China),

GU Ben (National Library of China) and

SHEN Zhenghua (Peking Universityy Library)

However, the new Standard is also controversial. Some experts think that there is no need for such a counterpart of ISBD(G), because we have already the ISBD Consolidated Edition.

Listening to Evita

I bought a CD "Evita: Music From The Motion Picture" in Frankfurt and listened to the music during my travel. I like it very much, especially the following pieces:

• Oh What A Circus / by Antonio Banderas
• Don't Cry For Me Argentina / by Madonna
• High Flying, Adored / by Antonio Banderas

I am looking for a DVD of the original motion picture. I hope I could borrow one after the holiday.

ISBD RG Extra Meeting held in Frankfurt

ISBD Review Group Extra Meeting is held in Frankfurt during February 4-6, 2010.

Chinese version of FRAD available online

The Chinese translation of FRAD (Functional Requirements for Authority Data) is available on the IFLANET today:

http://www.ifla.org/publications/functional-requirements-for-authority-data

PDF file (700KB):

http://www.ifla.org/files/cataloguing/frad/frad_2009-zh.pdf

The translation is done by Miss WANG Lu and her colleagues in National Library of China.

Forever Sutra

Yesterday, I received a CD from Zhao Cong, a famous yong Pipa player.

The CD is a new collection of classical pieces played by her (with Pipa) and a piano, which includes:

1. Liuyang River;

2. Jazz -- Dvorak's Humoresque;

3. Dance Music of the Yi Tribe;

4. Beethoven's For Elise;

5. Butterfly Lovers, or, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai;

6. Romeo and Juliet;

7. Moonlight over Spring River;

8. Schuberts' Serenade;

9. Old Melodies of Yingzhou -- The Moon High Above;

10. Chopin's Nocturnes.

As one of Ms. Zhao's friends, I have several CD collections by her, which feature the mixture of traditional Chinese music, Western classical music and modern music. I like them very much.

She gave a lecture in National Library of China in March 2009 and had an audience of more than 100 people.

Here is Zhao Cong's blog (in Chinese):

http://blog.sina.com.cn/zhaocongpipa

Chinese version of ISBD Area 0 published

Chinese version of ISBD Area 0 (ISBD Area 0: Content Form and Media Type Area) has just been published:

http://www.ifla.org/publications/isbd-area-0-content-form-and-media-type-area

The PDF file is at the following address:

http://www.ifla.org/files/cataloguing/isbd/area-0_2009-zh.pdf

I just completed the Chinese translation during the long holiday for the New Year (January 1-3, 2010).