RIMMF4 (R4) is an attempt to model changes to RDA introduced by the LRM and 3R project.
Work on R4 began in 2017/2018 and is ongoing.
The objectives/status of R4 are:
R4 does not have any awareness of MARC. For MARC-to-RDA conversion RIMMF3 may be useful 1).
Current release: 20210309
A list of changes in the current (and recent) releases may be found HERE.
A beta version of R4 can be downloaded from this link:
https://www.marcofquality.com/sft/setupRimmf4.exe
A portable installation of R4 is available from this link:
https://www.marcofquality.com/sft/setupRimmf4.zip
R4 runs on the Microsoft Windows operating system.
The installation documentation for RIMMF3 can be used for R4–substitute 'RIMMF4' for 'RIMMF3' where applicable and ignore the download links2).
R4 can be installed without harming existing RIMMF installations and data on the same computer.
RV is an abbreviation for “Registry Viewer”, a tool that we have developed over the years to help us navigate/understand/research/troubleshoot the RDA Registry.
The input to RV is the ntriples serialization of a registry release. The output consists of:
This utility is typically updated after each registry release.
You can download the latest update (4.0.4.62) here
Links to previous versions:
A workflow for converting a RIMMF3 data folder to RIMMF4 linked data is under construction (here is a link to some notes on this topic).
If you have RIMMF3 data that you would like converted to RIMMF4, please contact us. We can use your data to test the conversion, and potentially return the data in the new format.