RDA, Music, and Today’s Public Catalog

Ray Schmidt

NEMLA Meeting, October 5, 2012

RDA: Resource Description and Access

• What is it?• Where did it come

from?

Joint Steering Committee for the Development of RDA (JSC)

• American Library Association (ALA)• Australian Committee on Cataloguing• British Library • Canadian Committee on Cataloguing• Chartered Institute of Library and

Information Professionals (CILIP)• Library of Congress (LC)

Digital environment

Beyond print monographs &

serials

Linked dataData sharing

beyond libraries

Non-Anglo- centric

AACR3RDA

• RDA Toolkit became available in the summer of 2010

• 3 U.S. national libraries (LC, NLM, NAL), 20 other libraries, OCLC, Informal testers

• By summer 2011, over 10,000 bibliographic records were created and added to OCLC database

Test period (the real Day One)

Underlying concepts

• Representation principle: “take what you see.” • Being understood (common usage)• More precise physical description • Some fussy twisty catalogery things• Showing types of relationships between works,

and between works and their creator(s) • FRBR…

Representation principle

• Fewer abbreviations, no cataloger-supplied Latin

but we’re keeping op., no., SATB, BWV• No more “rule of three”

access points for everybody who helped• Capitalization

you can get used to almost anything…

NORTH to NUNAVUT : An Arctic Love Affair / FRED AND JOYCE SPARLING[Chapel Hill] : CHAPEL HILL PRESS, INC.,c2011

DVD 1. La Rafle (2010) / film de Rose Bosh ; LÉGENDE - LÉGENDE FILMS - GAUMONT - LÉGENDE DES SIECLES, TF1 FILMS PRODUCTION - FRANCE 3 CINEMA - SMTS - KS2 CINEMA - ALVA VILMS - EOS ENTERTAINMENT - EUROFILMS BIS ; producteur exécutif, MARC VADÉ ; produit par ILAN GOLDMAN ; écrit et réalisé par ROSE BOSCH (2 hrs.). Suppléments: Making of (26 min) ; Teaser et Bande - annonce" --

Common usage

1 score (59 pages)

instead of

59 p. of music [for solo performers]

1 study score (59 pages)

instead of

1 miniature score (59 pages)

Common usage

Types of carriers

audio disc, audiocassette, audiotape reel

instead of

sound disc, sound cassette, sound tape reel

Optional addition of encoding formats

CD audio, SACD, MP3

Physical description

Replacement of general material designation (GMD) with content, media, and carrier types

Content: form of communication

Media: intermediation device

Carrier: storage medium

Content, media, and carrier type examples

Old GMD• [electronic resource] • [videorecording] • [sound recording]

Content• text• two-dimensional moving

image • performed music

Media• computer• video• audio

Carrier • online resource• videodisc• audio disc

300 xii, 329 pages : ǂb illustrations ; ǂc 24 cm336 text ǂ2 rdacontent337 unmediated ǂ2 rdamedia338 volume ǂ2 rdacarrier

300 1 audio disc (73 min.) : ǂb digital, CD audio ; ǂc 4 3/4 in.336 performed music ǂ2 rdacontent337 audio ǂ2 rdamedia338 audio disc ǂ2 rdacarrier

300 1 score (59 pages) + 1 part (26 pages) ; ǂc 32 cm.336 notated music ǂ2 rdacontent337 unmediated ǂ2 rdamedia338 volume ǂ2 rdacarrier

Thinking about how you want new MARC fields to display in the OPAC…

300 1 audio disc (73 min.) : ǂb digital, CD audio ; ǂc 4 3/4 in.336 performed music ǂ2 rdacontent337 audio ǂ2 rdamedia338 audio disc ǂ2 rdacarrier

Description 1 audio disc (73 min.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.Description performed music, audio, audio disc

Form of notation

Typically, this “language” note:

546 ǂb Staff notation.

RDA lists these forms:• graphic notation• letter notation• mensural notation• neumatic notation• number notation• solmization• staff notation• tablature• tonic sol-fa

FRBR and FRBR-lite

Entity relationship model

Group 1: the “bibliographic” entities work, expression, manifestation, item

Group 2: the “people” entities individual persons and corporate bodies

Group 3: the “subject” entities concepts, events, places…

-- These entities have attributes-- There are relationships between the entities

What do we want the catalog to do?

Show us:• All the works created by or associated with a person• The expressions of the same work (scores, recorded

performances, arrangements, translations)• The manifestations of the same expression (various

published editions)• The items of the same manifestation (individual copies)• Related works (adaptations, improvisations, works

about…)

Abstract

_________

Physical

WORKNoon dance / Joan Tower

EXPRESSIONPerformed music

MANIFESTATIONPublished: CRI,

1985 (LP)

ITEMMusic Library 35002020204

ITEMOff-site storage

35002001162

MANIFESTATIONPublished: CRI,

1990 (CD)

ITEMMusic Library35002030296

31

EXPRESSIONNotated music

MANIFESTATIONPublished: Associated

Music, 1987

ITEMMusic Library

35002003007270

Categories of Adaptations of Musical Works

a) arrangements described as freely transcribed, based on, etc., and other arrangements incorporating new material

b) paraphrases of various works or of the general style of another composer

c) arrangements in which the harmony or musical style of the original has been changed

d) performances of musical works involving substantial creative responsibility for adaptation, improvisation, etc., on the part of the performer or performers

e) any other distinct alteration of another musical work.

Clarifying relationships between creators and works

Bilby, Kenneth M., ǂd 1953- ǂe recordist, ǂe compiler, ǂe writer of added commentary. For librettos:Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, ǂd 1874-1929. ǂt Elektra instead ofStrauss, Richard, 1864-1949. ǂt Elektra. ǂs Libretto

New data elements in in authority records

1001 Marez Oyens, Tera de4001 Oyens, Tera de Marez4001 Wansink, Tera670 Her De kapitein is jarig, 1967.670 New Grove ǂb (Marez Oyens, Tera de; b. Aug. 5, 1932, Velsen, near Haarlem; Dutch composer and pianist)670 Notes, June 1997: ǂb p. 1113 (Marez Oyens, Tera de; d. 1996, at 64; Dutch composer)670 Grovemusic WWW site, Aug. 19, 2003 ǂb (Marez Oyens, Tera de (née Wansink); b. Aug. 5, 1932, Velsen, d. Aug. 29, 1996, Hilversum; Dutch composer)

046 ǂf 19381001 Tower, Joan, ǂd 1938-370 New Rochelle, N.Y.374 composer ǂa pianist ǂa teacher375 female670 Prelude, for five players. [Phonodisc] 1972.670 Baker's biographical dictionary of twentieth-century classical musicians, c1997 ǂb (Tower, Joan (Peabody); b. Sep. 6, 1938, New Rochelle, N.Y.; American composer, pianist, and teacher)

046 ǂf 1782 ǂg 1840053 0 ML418.P2 ǂc Biography1001 Paganini, Nicolo, ǂd 1782-1840370 Genoa, Italy ǂb Nice, France372 music374 composer375 male4001 Paganini, Nicolas, ǂd 1782-1840667 Thematic-index numbers where used are those found

in Catalogo tematico delle musiche de Niccolo Paganini / a cura di Maria Rosa Moretti e Anna Sorrento, c1982, e.g. [Caprices, violin, M.S. 25]

670 New Grove ǂb (Paganini, Nicolo; b. Oct. 27, 1782, Genoa, d. May 27, 1840, Nice; Italian violinist and composer)

Future library systems will be increasingly geared to a linked data environment,

but for now…

• Expect to see different kinds of records in the catalog -- a “mixed environment” and even hybrid records

• How does your ILS handle new data elements?– record loading into the catalog– indexing (searchability) and display

Resources

• Glennan, K. “The Development of Resource Description & Access and its impact on music materials.” Notes, March 2012

• MLA Bibliographic Control Committee website (look under “Activities”)

• RDA Training Materials (Library of Congress website)

• JSC RDA website