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Moving from AACR2 to RDA
Ann Chapman
Chair of CILIP/BL Committee on AACR/RDA
UKOLN Policy and Advice Team
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AACR2 to RDA
• Perceived need for new edition instead of further revision of AACR2
• Working titleResource Description and Access (RDA)
• Planned date of publication 2008
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AACR2
• Part 1 Description– General rules
– Rules for specific types of resources (e.g music)
• Part 2 Headings, Uniform Titles and References• Appendices
– Capitalization
– Abbreviations
– Numerals
– Glossary
– Initial articles
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Issues to be addressed
• Where possible– Rules cover all resource types– Use FRBR terms– Internationalisation– Revision of examples– Separation of content and carrier terms
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Who is involved?
• JSC reps• Hugh Taylor (CILIP), Alan Danskin (BL)
• CILIP/BL Committee• 4 x CILIP• 3 x BL• Other representatives (e.g. digital, art)• Contact with specialist groups (e.g. BIALL)
for specific responses
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How it works
• Drafts• From Editor and JSC
• Proposals• From constituencies (LC, ALA, CILIP, etc)
• Responses to drafts & proposals• From constituencies via JSC reps
• Revised drafts
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Dec 2004 – March 2005
• RDA Part 1 Resource Description• RDA Part 2 Relationships• RDA Part 3 Access Point Control
• Draft of RDA Part 1– Issued December 2004, responses March 2005
• A. General rules• B. Supplementary rules for specific content• C. Supplementary rules for specific media
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Dec 2005 – March 2006
RDA Part 1 revised draft.– Ch.1 General guidelines on resource description– Ch.2 Identification of the resource– Ch.3 Technical description– Ch.4 Content description– Ch.5 Information on terms of availability– Ch.6 Item-specific information– Ch.7 persons, families, and corporate bodies associated
with a resource
Issued December 2005, responses March 2006
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April – August 2006
RDA Part A (drafts of chs. 3, 6 & 7 issued 2006)Ch.1 General guidelines
Ch.2 Identification of the resource
Ch.3 Technical description (incl. media, carrier)
Ch.4 Content description
Ch.5 Information on terms of availability
Ch.6 Related resources
Ch.7 Persons, families and corporate bodies associated with a resource
RDA part B (still to be written)
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April 2006 onwards
• Appendices– Capitalizations– Abbreviations– Initial articles– Presentation of descriptive data– Glossary
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Examples review
• Two Working Groups
• Thorough review of existing examples
• Omit / replace examples
• Provide new examples
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Content and carrier
• GMD/SMD Working Group– Report submitted April 2006
• RDA/ONIX Initiative– Report 2006
• Both to feed into revision of Part A.– 3.2 (Media category)– 3.3 (Type of carrier)– 4.2 (Type and form of content)
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Mapping to MARC 21
• ACOC and CCC charged with mapping• Will identify:
– Where RDA will impact on MARC 21– Possible new elements for RDA
• JSC plans a discussion paper on these areas for MARBI January 2007
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RDA – what will it be?
• Online resource (demo, session 5)– primary product– different views
• concise & full• specialist (serials, cartographic, etc.)
• Print versions– secondary product – different views
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Find out more
• CILIP-BL Committee on AACR
http://www.slainte.org.uk/aacr/
• Joint Steering Committee for the Revision of the Anglo-American cataloguing Rules (JSC)
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/