RDA: Are We There Yet?

Emily Dust Nimsakont • Nebraska Library Commission

NCompass Live • September 12, 2012

#NCompLive @enimsakont

Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stmpjmpr/4922756740/

• Work started on AACR3

2003

• Focus changed to RDA

2005• RDA

published

2010

• RDA tested by national libraries

2010-2011

The Story So Far…

Recommendations of Testers

• Rewrite the RDA instructions in clear, unambiguous, plain English. • Define process for updating RDA in the online environment. • Improve functionality of the RDA Toolkit. • Develop full RDA record examples in MARC and other encoding

schemas. • Announce completion of the Registered RDA Element Sets and

Vocabularies. • Demonstrate credible progress towards a replacement for MARC. • Ensure and facilitate community involvement. • Lead and coordinate RDA training. • Solicit demonstrations of prototype input and discovery systems

that use the RDA element set (including relationships).

March 31, 2013

Implementation Date

What will be different right away?

RDA Structure

Recording Attributes

Section 1 – Recording Attributes of Manifestation and Item

Section 2 – Recording Attributes of Work and Expression

Section 3 – Recording Attributes of Person, Family, and Corporate Body

Section 4 – Recording Attributes of Concept, Object, Event, and Place

RDA Structure

Recording Attributes• Recording Relationships

– Section 5 – Recording Primary Relationships Between a Work, Expression, Manifestation, and Item

– Section 6 – Recording Relationships to Persons, Families, and Corporate Bodies Associated with a Resource

– Section 7 – Recording Subject Relationships– Section 8 – Recording Relationships Between Works,

Expressions, Manifestations and Items– Section 9 – Recording Relationships Between Persons,

Families, and Corporate Bodies– Section 10 – Recording Relationships Between Concepts,

Objects, Events, and Places

Lack of Abbreviations

300 _ _ $a 253 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 28 cm.

NOT

300 _ _ $a 253 p. : $b ill. ; $c 28 cm.

Lack of Latin Abbreviations

264 _1 $a [Place of publication not identified] : $b[publisher not identified], $c

1967.

NOT

260 _ _ $a [S.l. : $b s.n.], $c 1967.

Lack of Latin Abbreviations

245 10 $a Micromagentic study of magnetoeleastic materials

246 1_ $iTitle should read: $a Micromagnetic study of magnetoeleastic

materials

NOT

245 10 $a Micromagentic [sic] study of magnetoeleastic materials

No Rule of Three in Statement of Responsibility

… / $c by Nancy Drew, George Fayne, Bess Marvin, and Ned Nickerson.

OR

… / $c by Nancy Drew *and three others+.

NOT

… / $c by Nancy Drew … *et al.+.

More Transcription - “Take What You See”

250 _ _ $aThird edition

NOT

250 _ _ $a 3rd ed.

(if that is how it appears on the item)

More Transcription - “Take What You See”

/ $c forward by Dr. John Smith.

NOT

/ $ c forward by John Smith.

(if that is how it appears on the item)

More Transcription - “Take What You See”

264 _1 $a Chicago, IL

NOT

260 _ _ $a Chicago, Ill.

(if that is how it appears on the item)

Content Type, Media Type and Carrier Type

336 _ _ $a two-dimensional moving image $2 rdacontent337 _ _ $a video $2 rdamedia

338 _ _ $a videodisc $2 rda carrier

NOT

245 00 $aAvatar $h [videorecording]

Some Changes to Headings

Smith, John, approximately 1837-1896

NOT

Smith, John, ca. 1837-1896

Some Changes to Headings

Bible. Corinthians.

NOT

Bible. N.T. Corinthians.

Related Works

700 1_ $i Sequel to: $a Mitchell, Margaret, $d 1900-1949. $t Gone with the wind.

NOT

500 _ _ $a Sequel to Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the wind.

Relationship Designators

100 1_ $a Smith, John, $e author.

700 1_ $a Eastwood, Clint, $d 1930- $e film producer, $e film director, $e actor.

New MARC Fields

• 336, 337, 338• Content type, media type, carrier type

336 _ _ $a text $2 rdacontent337 _ _ $a unmediated $2 rdamedia338 _ _ $a volume $2 rdacarrier

336 _ _ $a two-dimensional moving image $2 rdacontent337 _ _ $a computer $2 rdamedia337 _ _ $a video $2 rdamedia338 _ _ $a online resource $2 rdacarrier

New MARC Fields

• 264

• Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture and Copyright Statements

• First indicator:– Sequence of statements

# - Not applicable/No information provided/Earliest2 - Intervening3 - Current/latest

New MARC Fields

• 264• Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufactur

e and Copyright Statements

• Second indicator:– Function of entity

0 - Production1 - Publication2 - Distribution3 - Manufacture4 - Copyright notice date

New MARC Fields

• 040 $e = rda

Differences in Authority Records

• 046 - Special Coded Dates• 368 – Other Corporate Body Attributes• 370 - Associated Place• 371 - Address• 372 - Field of Activity• 373 - Associated Group• 374 - Occupation• 375 - Gender• 376 - Family Information • 378 - Fuller Form of Personal Name

What could be different later?

(which is to say, no, we’re not there yet…)

OLAC Moving Image Discovery Interface

http://blazing-sunset-24.heroku.com/

Scherzo, Indiana Universityhttp://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/scherzo/

AustLit

http://www.austlit.edu.au/subscribe/samples.xml

New Search Options

Open Library as an Examplehttp://www.openlibrary.org

Richer Authority Records

Jane AustenWomen authorsFrom EnglandWrote in 1800s

Semantic Web/Linked Data

Wikipedia says…

“Linked Data describes a method of publishing structured data, so that it can be interlinked and

become more useful. It builds upon standard web technologies, such as HTTP and URIs - but rather than using them to serve web pages for

human readers, it extends them to share information in a way that can be read

automatically by computers.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data

resource

resource

resource

resource

resourcelinks to

links to

links to

links to

data links to

links to

links to

links to

data data

data

data

datadata

data

data

data

data

data

HTML

<h1>This is a heading.</h1>

<p>This is a paragraph.</p>

RDF/XML

<rdf:Descriptionrdf:about="http://www.recshop.fake/cd/Empire Burlesque"><cd:artist>Bob Dylan</cd:artist><cd:country>USA</cd:country><cd:company>Columbia</cd:company><cd:price>10.90</cd:price><cd:year>1985</cd:year>

</rdf:Description> http://www.w3schools.com/rdf/rdf_example.asp

Relationships are key

Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brenda-starr/3509344100/

We are used to connecting pieces of information based on their context.

Title: A Christmas Carol

Author: Charles Dickens

Linked Data makes the relationships explicit.

subject object

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

has author

predicate

<rdf:Descriptionrdf:about="http://www.recshop.fake/cd/Empire Burlesque"><cd:artist>Bob Dylan</cd:artist><cd:country>USA</cd:country><cd:company>Columbia</cd:company><cd:price>10.90</cd:price><cd:year>1985</cd:year>

</rdf:Description> http://www.w3schools.com/rdf/rdf_example.asp

Civil War Data 150

http://www.civilwardata150.net

Tips for Implementation

Decide When You Will Implement

• Be prepared to deal with RDA records in copy cataloging

Talk to Your ILS Vendor

• How to display and index new fields

Vendor Interviews on the RDA Toolkit Website

http://www.rdatoolkit.org/blog/category/29

Think about Authority Control

• If you outsource this, talk to your vendor

• If not, make decisions about what you will do

Plan for Training

• Who?

• How?

• When?

Resources

ALCTS RDA Webinars: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1AAFB573158DC4A1&feature=plcp

Changes from AACR2 to RDA: http://faculty.washington.edu/aschiff/

Library of Congress RDA site: http://www.loc.gov/aba/rda/

NCSU RDA Test Materials: https://staff.lib.ncsu.edu/confluence/display/MNC/RDA

Thank you!

Emily Dust Nimsakont

Cataloging Librarian

Nebraska Library Commission

emily.dust.nimsakont@nebraska.gov

800-307-2665

@enimsakont