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Resource Description and Access (RDA) information session
Deirdre KiorgaardAustralian Committee on Cataloguing Representative to the Joint Steering Committee for the Development of RDA
AGLIN RDA information session + Q&A 2 November 2009
AACR to RDA
AACR is a robust standard, but …
‘Class of materials’ approach is no longer valid• Need for principles-based instructions • Need for extensibility
Designed for the card catalogue not digital world• Data needs to be usable in the web environment
Brave new world?
The power of the search engine
– New search algorithms, relevance ranking, synonym control …
Image of Earth from space on website by Liz Strauss http://www.successful‐blog.com/2007/09/
Next generation catalogues
• tagging
• reviews
• synonym control
• links
• full text
• table of contents
Seattle Public Library” by Jeff Maurone http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffmaurone/2505572445/
The (not so) secret life of catalogue data (1)
“metadata increasingly appears farther and farther away from its original context” Shreeves, Riley and Milewicz (2006).
Shared library databases
Digitisation projects
Institutional repositories
The (not so) secret life of catalogue data (2)
The GLAM sectorGalleries, libraries, archives and museums
The Internet
Catalogue records have jumped the fence
Leading to:
Services based on data aggregations
Sharing of library data with other sectors
Exposure of library data to the internet
What RDA is A new standard to replace AACR Designed for the digital world
– Instructions will be a Web tool– Instructions cover description of digital resources– Resulting records to be used in web environment
Broader scope– Includes ‘authorities’
Better coverage of resource types– Online resources, visual resources
What RDA isn’t Not a replacement for MARC21 or the ILMS
– Not an encoding standard or library system
Not a panacea for every ill afflicting the catalogue, but …– It will enable improved navigation of the catalogue
and improved catalogue displays (more organised, less cluttered)
Not (necessarily) simplified cataloguing, but ..– It will offer the potential of improved efficiency of data
creation & maintenance
Advantages of RDA Clearly defined element set
– better granularity, improved mapping to other schema, e.g. Dublin Core, ISBD, MODS/MADS, MARC21
Greater emphasis on relationships– Better navigation and displays
Better interoperability - common vocabularies– Content type, carrier type, media type; Relationship
designators; Encoding formats, etc.– Making vocabularies accessible
RDA and the semantic web
Tentative Timeline2009
June
July - August
September+
2010
June?
+3 months
+3 months
+3 months
Mid 2011
Final text submitted to ALA Publishing
Keying of Final text into XML
Product development (Alpha testing;
Proofreading; Beta testing using Final text;bug fixes)
Release of RDA
Prep. period for US National libraries testing
US National libraries formal testing
US National libraries formal assessment
Earliest date for implementation
Preparing for RDAACOC & the National Library will help prepare Australian libraries with information and advice on:
TrainingDocumentation (transitional materials plus updates to LA manuals and standards)MARC changesLibrary system changes (data conversions, exchange of records)
Learning about … FRBR Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
ACOC seminarhttp://www.nla.gov.au/lis/stndrds/grps/acoc/acocseminar2004.html
FRBR: Things You Should Know, but were afraid to askhttp://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4554
FRBR Bibliographyhttp://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/wgfrbr/bibliography.htm
FRBR and FRAD as implemented in RDA http://presentations.ala.org/images/b/b2/
FRBR_and_FRAD_as_implemented_in_RDA.ppt
Resource Description and Access Paper presented at Online 2009 – useful for examples of FRBR in databases,
library systems and catalogueshttp://www.information-online.com.au/
JSC site http://www.rda-jsc.org/rda.html
Easy to read article on Changing to RDA http://www.rda-jsc.org/docs/felicitervol53no7p250-253.pdf
RDA Prospectus http://www.rda-jsc.org/docs/5rda-prospectusrev7.pdf
Draft of RDA http://www.rdaonline.org/constituencyreview/
Changes to AACR2 Instructions http://www.rda-jsc.org/docs/5sec7rev.pdf
Using RDA with bibliographic and authority records http://www.rda-jsc.org/docs/5chair14.pdf
Learning about … RDA
Learning about … RDA in MARC21
Mappings in RDA : RDA to Bibliographic format (Appendix D), Authority Format (Appendix E).
MODS->RDA mapping and MADS->RDA mapping http://www.loc.gov/standards/mads/ and http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods//
Presentation to ALA July 2009 http://presentations.ala.org/images/f/f9/ALA.7-09-final.ppt
Proposals and discussion papers http://www.loc.gov/marc/marbi/an2009_age.html
Information on approved changes for vendors http://www.loc.gov/marc/formatchanges-RDA.html.
Keeping up to date
Information from US national libraries testinghttp://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/rda/
Australian informationhttp://www.nla.gov.au/lis/stndrds/grps/acoc/index.html
• FAQ• Upcoming presentations & Training courses• RDA-AUST discussion list• Australian implementation• ACOC conferences
RDA productInformation on the product:
http://www.publishing.ala.org/rdaonlinedotorg/
Sample RDA screens are available at: http://www.publishing.ala.org/rdaonlinedotorg/rda_samples/rda_samples.html.
RDA as a cataloguing toolInteractive, onlineIntegrated with policies and processes
Sample – RDA instructions
Thank you
Montage of shelves etc by Brungrrl http://www.flickr.com/photos/brungrrl/2246691272/