RDA, RDE, or what?

By:Darrell J. Siebert (NHM, London)Laurence Livermore (NHM, London)Andrew Brown (Ke Software, Melbourne)

What the RDA isn’t!

So what is it?

• 2 examples:

– Palaeontology drawer project (index)

– Label transcription

Ans: browser based workflow interface for EMu

Digital Collections Programme mission:‘digitise the collections in 10 years’

DisciplineSize of

CollectionDatabase

EventsImages

Required

Botany 6,000,000 6,000,000 6,000,000

Entomology 35,000,000 35,000,000 35,000,000

Mineralogy 600,000 600,000 600,000

Palaeontology 9,000,000 2,000,000 1,000,000

Zoology 25,000,000 4,000,000 1,000,000

Total 75,600,000 47,600,000 43,600,000

Label transcription – ‘verbatim’ entry (rapid?) to type of information

‘Verbatim’ transcription: what next?

Label transcription: ‘normalisation’ (Editor)

Editor results – listed on ecat Normalisation tab

Palaeontology drawer project (index)

Palaeontology drawer index: Location record update

Documentation

Documentation: usage

Documentation:forms

Editor form

Security – some surprises sometime

IMu toolkit

• Simplified user experience – Palaeontology drawer project

• Complicated workflows – decoupling components (simplification)

• Crowd sourcing platform -- transcription