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NISO/DCMI Webinar:Deployment of RDA (Resource
Description and Access) Cataloging and its Expression as Linked Data
April 24, 2013
Speaker: Alan Danskin,
Metadata Standards Manager at The British Library
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/rda/
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Deployment of RDA cataloguing and its expression as linked data
Alan Danskin
British Library Representative to JSC
NISO Webinar 24/April/2013
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Good afternoon!
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Overview
RDA: a brief reminder!
RDA and Linked Data
Linked data challenges
RDA application profiles
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A brief reminder
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WHAT IS RDA?“RDA provides a set of guidelines and instructions on
formulating data to support resource discovery.“
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RDA: Purpose and scope
RDA provides a comprehensive set of guidelines and instructions covering all types of content and media.
RDA 0.0 Purpose and Scope
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Scope
Consideration has been given to the metadata standards used in other communities (archives, museums, publishers, semantic web, etc.) to attain an effective level of alignment between those standards and RDA.
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RDA: Purpose and scope
Supersedes Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd ed.
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Practical tool for cataloguers
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RDA: Status
RDA was published in 2010 RDA Toolkit Print
RDA development Regular toolkit releases RDA update April 2012 RDA update July 2013 TBC
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RDA Translations
May 14th Toolkit Release (TBC) French translation German translation
Official translations in progress Chinese (print only) Spanish (online and print)
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RDA: Implementations
Bibliographic Data Services (BDS) British Library Cambridge University Library OLIS/Bodleian Library University of Warwick Library of Congress National Library of Medicine University of Chicago
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RDA: Implementations
Library and Archives Canada (2013) National Library of Australia (2013) German Speaking Library Community
(2013-2015) Germany Austria Switzerland
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RDA: Implementations
Koninklijke Bibliotheek (NL) (2013-14)
Philippines (2013)
National Library of Scotland (2014)
National Library of Finland (2015)
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RDA Administration - CoP
ALA BL
CLA
CILIP
LAC
LC
NLA
BritishLibrary
Library & ArchivesCanada
Library of Congress
NationalLibrary ofAustralia
AmericanLibraryAssociation
Chartered Instituteof Library & InformationProfessionals
CanadianLibraryAssociation
Committee of Principals
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Supporting Organizational Structure
Committee of
Principals
FundTrustees/
Co-Publishers
Joint SteeringCommittee
ALACC:DA
ACOC BL CCC CILIP/BL LCDNB
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JSC in Chicago, Nov. 2012
Christine Frodl (DNB)William Leonard (LAC)Gordon Dunsire (CILIP)
live on the InternetBarbara Tillett (JSC Chair)
John Attig (ALA)Judy Kuhagen (JSC Sec)Alan Danskin (BL)Kevin Marsh (ACOC)
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RDA and Linked data
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Linked Data EnvironmentSemantic Web (RDF Triples)
Subject Verb Object
Noun/adjective verb Noun/adjective (literals) George R.R. Martin is the creator of A game of
thrones
or better for machines: URI URI URI
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RDA and Open Data
RDA element set
RDA elements
RDA vocabularies
Open Metadata Registry
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URI
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FRBR’s Entity-Relationship Model
Entities Relationships Attributes (data “elements” in
RDA)
relationship
One Entity Another Entity
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Relationships are fundamental to RDA…
ENTITY = PERSONIdentifier for the Person = n80160390
Preferred Name for the Person: George R.R. MartinVariant Name for the Person: מרטין, ג׳ורג׳
ENTITY = WORKIdentifier for the Work = W98765
Preferred title for the Work: A game of thronesForm of Work: Novel
is author of has author
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Relating Stuff
George R R Martin
A game of thrones
A song of ice and fire
author
translation
Hra o trůny (Czech)
Hana Březáková
translatorA clash of kings
More…
sequelprequel
T.V. Adaptation
Game of thrones
Season 1
Season 2
T.V Adaptation
TV Adaptation
contains
sequel
Henry Jacoby
Games of thrones and philosophy
Subject
editorproducer
Whole part
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George R.R. Martin
A game of thrones [Get this]
A song of ice and fireTranslations
Literature about A game of thrones
Did you mean Game of thrones (Television Series)?
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Linked data challenges
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Is FRBR a constraint on Linked Data?FRBR is either Enabling Too complex
It depends on your perspective
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Unconstrained
Constrained
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Dumbing Up?
Sceptical
Unexpected benefits
Different Name Spaces
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“Publication” of the vocabularies in progress
JSC is finalising definition of terms and merging vocabularies where appropriate
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Vocabulary Challenges
Quantity
Definitions
Precision
Semantic mapping
Competing priorities
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RDA Application Profiles
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Application profile
an application profile is a set of metadata elements, policies, and guidelines defined for a particular application
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Glossary
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Application Profile
Functional Requirements
Domain Model
Description Set Profile and usage guidelines
Syntax Guidelines and Data Formats
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Functional Requirements
Describes what a community wants to accomplish with its application
RDA’s functional requirements are defined by FRBR and FRAD. The requirements are related to resource discovery and based on specific user tasks.
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Domain Model
Characterizes the types of things described by the metadata and their relationships
FRBR / FRAD
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Description set profile and usage guidelinesEnumerates the terms to be used and the rules
for their use
RDA Element Analysis Table
http://www.rda-jsc.org/docs/6rda-element-analysis-table.pdf
RDA instructions
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Syntax Guidelines and Data FormatsMachine syntax that will be used to encode the
data
RDA is agnostic about the syntax to be used to encode RDA data.
MARC Mapping implementation/backwards compatibility
RDF & RDF/S – in progress
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Summary
Functional Requirements FRBR/FRAD
Domain Model FRBR/FRAD
Description Set Profile RDA Element Set
Usage Guidelines RDA Instructions
Syntax Guidelines / Data Format In progress
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Links
Joint Steering Committee for the Development of RDA
http://www.rda-jsc.org/
RDA Toolkit http://www.rdatoolkit.org/
Open Metadata Registry http://metadataregistry.org/
RDA namespace http://rdvocab.info/
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Links
RIMMF RDA in Many Metadata Formats
http://www.marcofquality.com/rimmf/doku.php?id=rimmf
BNF Linked data demonstrator
http://data.bnf.fr/
NISO/DCMI WebinarDeployment of RDA (Resource Description and Access) Cataloging and its Expression as Linked Data
NISO/DCMI Webinar • April 24, 2013
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http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/rda/
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