Magda El-SherbiniHead of Collection Description and Access

The Ohio State University Library

RDA implementation and the emergence of BIBFRAMEEURIG Annual Meeting

Fiesole – ItalyMay 8-11, 2017

The evolution of RDA

The challenges of implementing RDA

Highlight of issues with MARC in its relation to RDA

Role that BIBFRAME can play in the newly emerging information model

Conclusion

Agenda

I. Evolution of RDA

Implemented in 2012 About 25 catalogers across OSU libraries Workshop once a week with hands on training Web site for resources Final exam Celebration Refresher sessions

RDA Implementation at OSU

Foreign Languages and Resource Discovery

RDA Purpose and Scope (RDA 0.0): Purpose 1: RDA provides a set of guidelines and instructions on recording

data to support resource discovery.

Purpose 2: The data created using RDA to describe a resource are designed to assist users performing the following tasks: Find, Identify, Select, Obtain

Purpose 3: Data created using RDA to describe an entity associated with a resource (an agent, concept, etc.) are designed to assist users in performing the following tasks: Find, Identify, Clarify, Understand

RDA Chapter 0

If the name of a person is found in a script that differs from a preferred script of the agency creating the data, transliterate the name according to the scheme chosen by the agency. 9.2.2.5.3

If there is a well-established form of name in reference sources in a language preferred by the agency creating the data, choose that form of name as the preferred name.

If different forms are found in reference sources in a language preferred by the agency creating the data, choose the form that occurs most frequently.

Record the other forms of the transliterated name as variant names

RDA -- Names found in a non-preferred script

010 n 91088637 040 DLC ǂb eng ǂc DLC ǂd OCoLC1001 Abd El-Nasser, Gamal, ǂd 1953-4001 Abd El-Naser, Gamal, ǂd 1953-4001 ʻAbd al-Na s ir, Jamal, ǂd 1953-عبد الناصر، جمال 4001ǂdعبد الناصر، جمال، 4001 1953-ג׳מאל, עבד אל־נאצר 4001667 Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project.667 Non-Latin script references not evaluated.670 Modern Egyptian stories, 1989: ǂb t.p. (Dr. Gamal Abd El-

Nasser) p. 13, etc. (Gamal Abd El-Naser; b. 1953 in El-Minya[Upper Egypt])

Example of Arabic Name

010 n 85329170 040 DLC ǂb eng ǂe rda ǂc DLC ǂd DLC ǂd OCoLC ǂd InU046 ǂf 19551001 Kim, Ik-tu, ǂd 1955-4001 김익두, ǂd 1955-4001 김익두, ǂd 1955-667 Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project.667 Non-Latin script references not evaluated.670 Nammin, 1985: ǂb colophon (Kim Ik-tu) p. 11 (b. 1955)670 Pʻansori, ku chigo u i sinchʻe chollyak, 2003: ǂb t.p. (Kim Ik-tu)

front flap (b. 1955; grad., Chonbuktae TaehagwonKungmunkwa; prof., Chonbuktae Kungmunkwa)

Example for Korean name

If the name recorded as the preferred name for a place has one or more alternative linguistic forms, record them as variant names.

Alternative Linguistic Form of Name for Place -- RDA 16.2.3.7

Users can search the library catalogue by subjects in their preferred languages, e.g., Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, etc.

Opportunity 1 -- User’s Needs

Simpler

FAST converter

FAST and MARC

FAST and Non-Roman Script Terms

FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) and Multilingual Subject Access

Autoridades de la Biblioteca Nacional de España (Madrid: Biblioteca Nacional de España) Sharing 국가서지:도서(서지), 온라인자료, 기사색인및주제명, 저자명, 그리고도서관정보 Linked Open Data에대한탐색서비스를만나보세요! Ndlsh : governed by Japan National Diet Library and freely

available (http://id.ndl.go.jp/auth/ndla) List of Chinese Subject Terms from the National Central Library

of Taiwan : http://catld.ncl.edu.tw/index.jsp (國家圖書館鏈結資源 = National Library Link Resources)

International Subject Thesaurus

Record in Arabic

Record in Chinese

Record in Spanish

Record in Japanese

Search by Arabic subject

Results

While entities, and the relationships between them, provide the structure of the model, attributes are what gives flesh to the description of an instance of an entity. The logical repeatability or non-repeatability of attributes is not prescribed by the model. There are basically two ways to represent an attribute in an actual implementation:

an attribute can be represented as a mere literal (a string, a number...): this is what OWL regards as “datatype properties”;

an attribute can be represented as a URI pointing to an external source (a referential or normative document of any kind, such as an authority file, or a list of coded values), in which case it could have been modelled as a relationship rather than a mere attribute, but the model is meant to remain agnostic as to the way it is to be implemented: this is what OWL regards as “object properties”.

Opportunity 2 -- FRBR-Library Reference Model

How to represent an attribute with the current catalog structure? Catalog as usual using OCLC Connexion Save records in the local save file in Connexion Use MarcEditor to bring record from OCLC Connexion Edit the record Add external links

Represent an attribute Using MARC 21

Search OCLC –Korean History

MarcEditor

OCLC Connexion

Bib File loader

Load your file

Click Load File

Edited record (You can load several records at once)

After editing—Go to Toolsand select Linked Data Tools

Select the options that you need to link to from the services menu

Click “Process”

Before After

Before After

Before After

Record in Spanish

OSUU1001 Cordell, Lonnie G., ǂd 1936- ǂe author. ǂ0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no201400939224514 The effect of structured group counseling on the self-concept, attendance, and

achievement of absentee-prone high school students / ǂc by Lonnie G. Cordell.264 1 [Columbus] : ǂb Ohio State University, ǂc 1973.300 1 online resource (vii, 135 pages) : ǂb illustrations336 text ǂb txt ǂ2 rdacontent ǂ0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/contentTypes/txt337 computer ǂb c ǂ2 rdamedia ǂ0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/mediaTypes/c338 online resource ǂb cr ǂ2 rdacarrier ǂ0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/carriers/cr347 text file ǂb PDF ǂc 4.13 MB ǂ2 rda500 Available online.500 Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 34-08, Section: A, page: 4733.502 ǂb Ph. D. ǂc Ohio State University ǂd 1973.504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-135).588 Title from first page of PDF file.650 0 Group counseling. ǂ0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057473650 0 School attendance. ǂ0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118266

650 7 Group counseling. ǂ2 fast ǂ0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst00948370650 7 School attendance. ǂ2 fast ǂ0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst011069747001 Quaranta, Joseph J., ǂe degree supervisor. ǂ0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no970523407730 ǂt Dissertation Abstracts International ǂg 34-08A.77608 ǂi Print version: ǂa Cordell, Lonnie G., 1936- ǂt Effect of structured group counseling on the self-

concept, attendance, and achievement of absentee-prone high school students ǂw(OCoLC)1029439

85640 ǂu http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqm&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:7403140ǂz Connect to resource online

85640 ǂu http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1486744174938144 ǂz Connect to resource ǂ3 ETD OSU

85640 ǂu http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1284054287 ǂz Connect to resource online

II. Challenges of implementing RDA

Taught RDA to 500 people throughout the world Rules not clear – FRBR (expression vs manifestation; lack of

teaching and training) Problems and issues “My head's been swimming since 2013 with trying to understand

FRBR, RDA and linked data”) “does anyone have an idea as to why we correct typographical

errors in serials but not in monographs?”

Challenges of implementing RDA

III. MARC 21 and its relation to RDA

MARC is a cataloging standard

Used within library communities

“MARC may hinder the separation of elements and ability to use URIs in linked environment.” (Report and Recommendations of the U.S. Test Coordinating Committee—Summary 2011)

MARC – field by field

Problems with MARC

Use both ISBD punctuation and MARC subfields264 _1 Columbus : $b Library unlimited, 2017

Data are recorded in multiple places008 (positions 35-37) Arabic240 10 $l Arabic546 In Arabic

MARC does not fit into the Web “model” of data formats

Problems with MARC -- Cont.

Many updates: 336,337,338 -- To replace the 245 $h GMD 264 – To replace 260 344, 345, 346, 347 – New bibliographic format fields to

represent carrier characteristics 046, 368,371, 372, 373, 374, 375, 376, 378 –New MARC

Authority Fields for name attributes. 046, 370, 377, 380, 381, 382, 384 –New MARC Authority and

Bibliographic field for work and expression attributes $e and $4 in 1xx, 6xx,7xx, 8xx –relationship name to

resources

MARC (positive)

Multilingual subject accessUse with MarcEdit to create identifiers for all access points

to convert them to linked data It is currently the basis for the Library Management Systems

Positive

IV -- Role that BIBFRAME can play in the newly emerging information model

Image from Bibframe website

BIBliographic FRAMEwork initiative

“The new bibliographic framework project will be focused on the Web environment, Linked Data principles and mechanisms, and the Resource Description Framework (RDF) as a basic data model.”*

* Library of Congress. A Bibliographic Framework for the Digital Age. 31 October 2011. http://www.loc.gov/bibframe/news/framework-103111.html

Role of Bibframe in new information model

Viewed as a replacement of MARC 21 Improve/revolutionize the way library data is described,

created, exchanged and used.Web technologies known as HTTP (Hypertext Transfer

Protocol), URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers) and RDF (Resource Description Framework)Developed for the semantic web Still a metadata encoding and exchange standard

What it is.

Incorporating the IFLA LRM in RDA (replacing FRBR, FRAD, FRSAD)

Three new entities will be added to RDA: Collective Agent, Nomen, and Time-span. Two other entities, Agent and Place, will be added.

RDA Registry and Bibframe vocabulary

RDA effect on Bibframe

RDA gave us the ability to enrich bib records with new dataMARC remains a useful tool until we have a replacementMarcEdit facilitates the generation of URI’s for almost all

access points and also links terms to external sources. Bibframe can create an environment for libraries to create

datasets that can stand alone or be integrated with other datasets

Conclusion

Broken-World Vocabularies http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march17/lovins/03lovins.html FRBR-Library Reference Model:FRBR, FRAD & FRSAD –Updated &

Consolidated https://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/documents/OpCo-2016/FRBR-LRM%20overview.pdf Diane Hellmann and Jon Phipps “The RDA Registry: supporting

RDA in Multilingual World.”Gordon Dunsire, 2016. “IFLA FRBR-Library Reference Model and

RDA” Presented to the EURIG seminar, Riga, Latvia, 23 May Mauro Guerrini and Tiziana Possemato. 2016 “From Record

Management to Data Management: RDA and New Application Models BIBFRAME, RIMMF, and OliSuite/WeCat.”

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