resource description and access

Education Services Australia

Introduction to RDA andits benefits for education libraries

© Renate Beilharz 2012

Renate Beilharz Box Hill Institute

“ … will be a new standard for resource description and access, designed for the digital world.”Joint steering Committee for the Development of RDA 2007 Strategic plan for RDA 2005-2009, viewed 3 September 2011, http://www.rda-jsc.org/stratplan.html

ISBN 9781405367851

Title Gadgets, games, robots, and the digital world / written by Clive Gifford ; consultant, Mike Goldsmith.

Main author Gifford, Clive

Contributors Goldsmith, Mike

Publisher London : Dorling Kindersley, 2011

Subjects

Electronics. scisshl Computer games. scisshl Robots. scisshl World Wide Web. scisshl Electronics. scot Computer games. scot Robots. scot World Wide Web. scot

Call nos. 621.381 GIF a14621.381 GIF 22

History of RDA

Late 1990s – Future of AACR2?

2004 – AACR3 draft

2005 – Decision to develop RDA

- align with FRBR & FRAD conceptual models

2010 – RDA published

Adapted from RDA train-the-trainer. Module 1, 2012, National Library of Australia, Canberra.

JSC for development of RDA

• The American Library Association • The Australian Committee on Cataloguing • The British Library • The Canadian Committee on Cataloguing • CILIP: Chartered Institute of Library and

Information Professionals • Deutsche Nationalbibliothek • The Library of Congress

Kannenberg, John 2010, Library card catalog, Flickr, viewed 4 Sep 2011, http://www.flickr.com/photos/jkannenberg/4430366726/

Metadata standards

ONIXStandard developed by publishing industry

Developed and maintained by cultural and computer science sectors

Adapted from RDA train-the-trainer. Module 1, 2012, National Library of Australia, Canberra.

Semantic Web and Linked Data

Internet = computers talking to each other

Semantic Web = computers understanding what they are talking to each other about

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGg8A2zfWKg

Adapted from RDA train-the-trainer. Module 1, 2012, National Library of Australia, Canberra.

convenience of the user

User tasks: Find

Identify

Select

ObtainStatement of International Cataloguing Principles, 2009 IFLA www.ifla.org/files/assets/cataloguing/icp/icp_2009-en.pdf

ICP highest principle

Functional Requirement for Subject Authority Data 2010

Functional Requirement for Authority Data 2009

Functional Requirement for Bibliographic Records 1998

“ FRBR [is] a conceptual model for organizing bibliographic and authority information based on the needs of the data’s users.” (Hart 2010, p. 10)

RDA provides better coverage of resource types

BooksDatabasesWebsites

ImagesMusic

PDFs

Videos Blogs

PodcastsBrochures

Flip charts

Online

RDA supports metadata sharing

John-Norris 2011, Folders vs Metadata, Flickr, viewed 4 Sep2011, /http://www.flickr.com/photos/john-norris/5865469840/

RDA improves search results and displays

“The Hobbit”. Trove, National Library of Australia, retrieved 6 September 2011, http://trove.nla.gov.au

RDA simplifies circulation requests

Enriched user searching : FRBR as the next dimension in meaningful information retrieval 2008, VTLS, retrieved 6Ooctober 2010www.vtls.com/media/en-US/presentations/Virtua_Enriched_User_Searching.ppt Used with permission.

RDA toolkit

RDA toolkit 2011, JSC, retrieved 3 September 2011, www.rdatoolkit.org

ISSC RDA recommendations

Pam Kadow, SCIS Cataloguing Team Leader Education Services AustraliaPamela.kadow@esa.edu.au

• Christine Hyne, NSW Department of Education

• Bev Blackwell & Tina Hoyland, WA Department of Education

• Mary Gough & Ann Duncan, ESA cataloguers

New MARC21 fields

264 Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice

SCIS will continue to use 260 for the foreseeable future and may elect to use the 264 field

ie both need to be allowed for

www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd264.html

Types

336 Content Type

http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd336.html

337 Media Typehttp://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd337.html

338 Carrier Typehttp://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd338.html

Descriptors to be taken from the RDA Toolkit list

Characteristics

344 Sound CharacteristicsSCIS may implement as need arises

345 Projection Characteristics of Moving ImageSCIS may implement as need arises

346 Video Characteristics SCIS may implement as need arises

347 Digital CharacteristicsSCIS will implement

Grappling with GMD

MARC21 elements no longer used

245 $h [GMD]

Following consultation SCIS proposes to continue to include GMD for a short term (initially 12 months).

Library systems may wish to strip this data

Mapping from GMD to 336, 337, 338 is not feasible

Field lengths

SCIS will implement RDA guideline that bibliographic information to be transcribed as it appears on the item, without abbreviations, etc

250 $a 2nd edition

260 $a Washington, District of Columbia $b300 $a 44 pages : $b colour illustrations.

Library systems with fixed length fields may need to allow for an increased number of characters

Timeline

SCIS intends to stay as closely aligned to Libraries Australia’s implementation dates as possible, ie 31 March 2013.

SCIS will not be changing bibliographic records retrospectively*, so library systems will need to be able to cope with both AACR2 and RDA for the foreseeable future.* Bible and Qur’an uniform titles global change mid 2013