A centre of expertise in digital information management UKOLN is supported by: Moving from AACR2...

A centre of expertise in digital information management

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UKOLN is supported by:

Moving from AACR2 to RDA

Ann Chapman

Chair of CILIP/BL Committee on AACR/RDA

UKOLN Policy and Advice Team



AACR2 to RDA

• Perceived need for new edition instead of further revision of AACR2

• Working titleResource Description and Access (RDA)

• Planned date of publication 2008



AACR2

• Part 1 Description– General rules

– Rules for specific types of resources (e.g music)

• Part 2 Headings, Uniform Titles and References• Appendices

– Capitalization

– Abbreviations

– Numerals

– Glossary

– Initial articles



Issues to be addressed

• Where possible– Rules cover all resource types– Use FRBR terms– Internationalisation– Revision of examples– Separation of content and carrier terms



Who is involved?

• JSC reps• Hugh Taylor (CILIP), Alan Danskin (BL)

• CILIP/BL Committee• 4 x CILIP• 3 x BL• Other representatives (e.g. digital, art)• Contact with specialist groups (e.g. BIALL)

for specific responses



How it works

• Drafts• From Editor and JSC

• Proposals• From constituencies (LC, ALA, CILIP, etc)

• Responses to drafts & proposals• From constituencies via JSC reps

• Revised drafts



Dec 2004 – March 2005

• RDA Part 1 Resource Description• RDA Part 2 Relationships• RDA Part 3 Access Point Control

• Draft of RDA Part 1– Issued December 2004, responses March 2005

• A. General rules• B. Supplementary rules for specific content• C. Supplementary rules for specific media



Dec 2005 – March 2006

RDA Part 1 revised draft.– Ch.1 General guidelines on resource description– Ch.2 Identification of the resource– Ch.3 Technical description– Ch.4 Content description– Ch.5 Information on terms of availability– Ch.6 Item-specific information– Ch.7 persons, families, and corporate bodies associated

with a resource

Issued December 2005, responses March 2006



April – August 2006

RDA Part A (drafts of chs. 3, 6 & 7 issued 2006)Ch.1 General guidelines

Ch.2 Identification of the resource

Ch.3 Technical description (incl. media, carrier)

Ch.4 Content description

Ch.5 Information on terms of availability

Ch.6 Related resources

Ch.7 Persons, families and corporate bodies associated with a resource

RDA part B (still to be written)



April 2006 onwards

• Appendices– Capitalizations– Abbreviations– Initial articles– Presentation of descriptive data– Glossary



Examples review

• Two Working Groups

• Thorough review of existing examples

• Omit / replace examples

• Provide new examples



Content and carrier

• GMD/SMD Working Group– Report submitted April 2006

• RDA/ONIX Initiative– Report 2006

• Both to feed into revision of Part A.– 3.2 (Media category)– 3.3 (Type of carrier)– 4.2 (Type and form of content)



Mapping to MARC 21

• ACOC and CCC charged with mapping• Will identify:

– Where RDA will impact on MARC 21– Possible new elements for RDA

• JSC plans a discussion paper on these areas for MARBI January 2007



RDA – what will it be?

• Online resource (demo, session 5)– primary product– different views

• concise & full• specialist (serials, cartographic, etc.)

• Print versions– secondary product – different views



Find out more

• CILIP-BL Committee on AACR

http://www.slainte.org.uk/aacr/

• Joint Steering Committee for the Revision of the Anglo-American cataloguing Rules (JSC)

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/

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