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The Why, What, How and When of RDA: the current state of play

23 March 2010, CILIP HQ, London

Ann Chapman

UKOLN



AACR timeline

• 1967 UK and US editions• 1978 Second unified edition (AACR2);

several further revisions• 1997 Toronto conference on AACR2• 1998 FRBR• 2005 Final revisions to AACR2rev• 2005 Develop RDA not AACR3• 2010 RDA launch



What’s wrong with AACR?

• Increasingly complex• Always ‘catching up’ with new formats and

publishing practices• Lack of logical structure• Mixing content and carrier data• Hierarchical relationships missing• Anglo-American centric viewpoint• Written before FRBR• Not enough support for collocation• Unclear relationship with MARC Format



What’s right with AACR2?

Key principles still valid– One principle entry per resource– Catalogue from item in hand– Chief source of information

Many of the rules still appropriate but need:– Re-wording: e.g. ‘authors’ v ‘creators’– Generalising: e.g. physical description rules– Re-thinking: re-phrase to apply to all content/media– Granularity: splitting data elements to enable more

(better) machine processing



RDA – The Aims

• Rules should be easy to use and interpret • Be applicable to an online, networked environment• Provide effective bibliographic control for all types

of media• Encourage use beyond the library community• Be compatible with other similar standards• Have a logical structure based on internationally

agreed principles• Separate content and carrier data• Examples – more of them, more appropriate



RDA and beyond

RDA aims to be:• Independent of communication formats

– UNIMARC, MARC, MARCXML, MODS/MADS– DC, EAD, ISBD, VRA, MPEG7

• Compatible / better aligned with other similar standards– Archives: ISAD(G)– Museums: Cataloging Cultural Objects



RDA and MARC• Mapping RDA and MARC 21

– Report issued in Nov. 2006; various proposals subsequently go through MARBI process

• How will RDA impact on MARC 21?– Some new fields / subfields are being defined– 336 Content Type, 337 Media Type, 338 Carrier Type– 370 to 377 (Authority records)– New codes in 007 (Bib, Holdings) and in 008 (Bib)

• How will MARC 21 impact on RDA?– Data provisions in MARC 21 not covered in current draft of RDA



RDA Outline Structure

• Introduction• Attributes

– Sections 1 to 4 (chapters 1 to 16)

• Relationships – Sections 5 to 10 (chapters 17 to 37)

• Appendices A to M• Glossary



What will RDA look like? - 1

• Section 1: Recording manifestation attributes– Ch. 1 General guidelines– Ch. 2 Identifying manifestations and items– Ch. 3 Describing carriers (technical description)– Ch. 4 Providing acquisition and access

information (terms of availability, etc.)



What will RDA look like? - 2

• Section 2: Recording attributes of work and expression– Ch. 5 General guidelines (incl. construction of

access points for works and expressions)– Ch. 6 Identifying works and expressions (e.g.

uniform and collective titles, etc.)– Ch. 7 Describing additional attributes of works

and expressions (incl. nature and coverage of content, intended audience, etc.)



What will RDA look like? - 3• Section 3: Ch. 8, 9, 10, 11

Recording attributes of person, family and corporate body (= name headings)

• Section 4: Ch. 12, 13, 14, 15, 16Recording attributes of concept, object, event and place (= subject headings)

• Section 5: Ch. 17Recording primary relationships between work, expression, manifestation and item

• Section 6: Ch. 18, 19, 20, 21, 22Recording relationships to persons, families and corporate bodies associated with a resource



What will RDA look like? – 4

• Section 7: Ch. 23Recording subject relationships

• Section 8: Ch. 24, 25, 26, 27, 28Recording relationships between works, expressions, manifestations and items

• Section 9: Ch. 29, 30, 31, 32Recording relationships between persons, families and corporate bodies

• Section 10: Ch. 33, 34, 35, 36, 37Recording relationships between concepts, objects, events and places



What will RDA look like? - 5• Appendices

A: CapitalisationB: AbbreviationsC: Initial articlesD: Record syntaxes for descriptive data (ISBD, M21, DC)E: Record syntaxes for access point control dataF: Additional instructions on names of personsG: Titles of nobility, rank, etc.H: Conversion of dates to Gregorian calendarJ, K, L, M: Relationship designatorsGlossaryIndex



What will RDA really look like?

• The PDF text– Linear presentation– Seeming repetition

• The online product– Move down (and back up) instruction levels– Move across to related instructions– Move across to glossary, etc.– Features such as bookmarking



Who is working on RDA?

• Joint Steering Committee (JSC)– 1 representative each from:

ACOC, ALA, BL, CCC, CILIP, LC– JSC reps consult with their ‘constituency’

• In UK, CILIP/BL Committee on RDA plus specialist groups (e.g. Rare Books Group, IAML(UK & Ireland)

• And in the period 2005 to 2009– RDA Editor: Tom Delsey– RDA Project Manager: Marjorie Bloss



And also

• Task focused working groups– RDA GMD/SMD Working Group– RDA and ONIX Initiative– RDA Examples Working Groups– RDA MARC Working Group

and– DCMI RDA Task Group



How is RDA being developed?

• Draft – (responses – revised drafts – further responses, etc.) – acceptance

• Latest draft released 17 Nov. 2008;responses from:– ACOC, ALA, BL, CCC, CILIP, LC– France, Germany, New Zealand, Norway, Spain,

Sweden– ISSN International Centre

• Final product – the publishers (ALA, CILIP, CLA)



RDA Timelime• 2005

– Prospectus and draft of chapters relating to description– Content and carrier studies

• 2006 and 2007– Further drafts of chapters on description and access– Work on appendices and glossary

• 2008– Screenshot demo in August at IFLA conference– Draft text for consultation released in November

• 2010– Launch of online product (announced as June 2010)

• 2010 – 2011– Work on deferred issues



RDA in the future

• 2010 Online product– Bookmarking– Workflows– Text linking (e.g. to glossary)

• Potentially there could be:– Concise text– Tailored texts (law, music, serials, etc.)– Training resource– Incorporation into LMS cataloguing modules



RDA and you and me

• Legacy records– Mostly no problem– Bible headings; treaties; multiple authors– ‘Global’ changes may be possible?

• Library management systems– RDA as part of system?

• OPACs– More (better) search & display options

• Opportunities, opportunities, opportunities



Contact details

Ann Chapman

UKOLN

University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY

[email protected]

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/bib-man/

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/a.chapman/



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