Bibliographic Framework and Future Scenarios for RDA

Records

Dr. Barbara B. TillettChief, Policy & Standards Division, Library of Congress

& Chair, Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDAFor LIANZA (Library and Information Association of New

Zealand Aotearoa) September 2012

LC’s Bibliographic Framework Initiative (BFI)

• US RDA Test results: MARC seen as barrier to achieving benefits of RDA– Recommended evidence of credible progress

towards a replacement for MARC

• Mappings or services to enable easy use of both new structures and MARC

• Led by Roberta Shaffer, Associate Librarian of Congress for Library Services– Internal steering group at LC

• Initiative to– Analyze present and future environment– Identify components of the framework to

support users– Plan for evolution from present framework to

future

Contractor

• May 22, 2012 LC announced contract with Zepheira (Eric Miller and company)

• Report in September 2012– Internal LC discussions– January 2013 Open Forum at American

Library Association Conference

Issues to be Addressed

• Aspects of current metadata encoding standards to retain or evolve – or replace with something more compatible

with Internet

• Benefits of Semantic Web and linked data technologies for adjusting current models

• Maximum re-use of library metadata so users exposed to more quality metadata in innovative ways

Issues, continued

• Navigate relationships among entities in library catalogs and the broader Internet

• Displays of metadata beyond MARC-based

• Identify risks of action and inaction, assess acceptable pace of change

• Plan for bringing existing metadata into new bibliographic systems

The Process• Fully collaborative• Consult

– Partners – Customers– Standards experts– Systems designers and builders using library

metadata

• Host meetings to gather input from all interested parties– Associations, organizations, “town hall” – Invitational meetings in 2012 and 2013

How to get involved

• http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition/index.html Web site

• BIBFRAME@listserv.loc.govdiscussion list

Database/format ScenariosBib record (flat-file)

Lee, T. B.

Cataloguing has a future

Spoken word.

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1. Metadata

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Database/format ScenariosBib record (flat-file)

100 01 $a Lee, T. B.

245 00 $a Lectures on metadata

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650 0 $a Metadata561 1 $a Donated by the author.

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Database/format ScenariosBib record (flat-file)

Author:

Title:

Content type:

Carrier type:

Provenance:

Subject:

Lee, T. B.

Cataloguing has a future

Spoken word

Audio disc

Metadata

Donated by the author

Name authority record

Name:

Subject authority record

Identifier: …

Label:

Identifier: …

Bib record (description)

Item information

Manifestation information

Expression information

Work informationFRBR record

RDA content type registry

Label:

Identifier: …

Spoken word

RDA element registry

RDA carrier type registry

Future record

ONIX

FRBR registry (IFLA)

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Work title: Cataloguing has a future

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Author:

Title:

Content type:

Carrier type:

Provenance:

Subject:Lee, T. B.

Lectures on metadata

Audio disc

Metadata

Donated by the author

Name authority record

Name:

Subject authority record

Identifier: …

Label:

Identifier: …

Item information

Manifestation information

Expression information

Work information

RDA content type registry

Label:

Identifier: …

Spoken wordRDA carrier type registry

Linked Data

Work Title: Lectures on metadata

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Author:

Title:

Content type:

Carrier type:Lectures on metadata

Package for displaysFuture display

Lee, T. B.

Spoken word

(Audio disc)

( )

Structures for Descriptions

100 10 Shakespeare245 01 Hamlet260 Mexico City

Hamlet

México City2008

English

Spanish

French

German

Shakespeare

Library of CongressCopy 1Green leather binding

Romeo andJuliet

Stoppard

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

Movies…

Identifiers

• Elements and controlled vocabularies– Easy display of terms in languages preferred

by the user (linked through shared URIs – Universal Resource Identifiers)

Rdavocab/RDAcarriertype/1004

STORED AS URI DISPLAY AS TEXT

audio discEng

RDA Element Set and Controlled Vocabularies

• Open Metadata Registry for the RDAvocabulary.info namespace

• URIs for each element and controlled term– Universal Resource Identifiers

http://metadataregistry.org/rdabrowse.htmhttp://metadataregistry.org/rdabrowse.htm

RDA Carrier Types

URI

VIAF

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葛飾 , 北斎 , 1760-1849   Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849

VIAFVIAFVirtual International Authority FileVirtual International Authority File

(creative re-use of data)(creative re-use of data)

viaf.orgviaf.org

Cervantes

Cervantes

MA

RC

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Cervantes

RDF

Cervantes

26 March 2012

Internet “Cloud”

Web frontend

ServicesVIAF

Databases, Repositories

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