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Metadata Update #30 Pollution vs. Perfection - why trying to get the metadata right is a challenge

Wow, time sure goes fast.   No wonder I got behind in writing my posts in the last year or so.   Now I have a bit list of topics which I have intended to write about but never got around to, some of which have since become irrelevant.   So, a few are easy to cross off the list. There’s one topic which I see has been mentioned in some form more than once on the list.   As I was making an attempt to preview the April updates to the RDA Toolkit, I realized that I had not yet looked at the February 2016 updates.   (for those of you who want to check-out the April changes, they are found here:   http://www.rda-rsc.org/sites/all/files/RDA-changes-2015-proposals.pdf ).   As I got over various twinges of frustration at my realization that I remain forever behind in reading the updates, I was reminded of the theme that I had found running across the various possible blog topics I had listed.   This theme was essentially the challenge of keeping up with things in times of change.   It defi