rda update
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Acknowledgement
• Certain slides in today’s presentation have been taken, with permission, from Emily Dust Nimsakont’s presentation, “Cataloging with RDA: An Overview.”
• Emily’s entire presentation can be viewed on SlideShare at http://www.slideshare.net/enimsakont/cataloging-with-rda-an-overview
Today’s Topics
• Background• What’s different about RDA?• Timeline• RDA Toolkit
RDA: Resource Description and Access
• New content standard for describing resources• Developed and maintained by the Joint Steering
Committee for Development of RDA (JSC)• Replaces AACR2• Foundations:– Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
(FRBR) – Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD)– IFLA Statement of International Cataloguing Principles
(ICP)
Differences from AACR2
• Structure– AACR2 is organized by classes of materials– RDA has overarching principles that are applicable
to all materials
Differences from AACR2
• Structure– AACR2• Part I – Description• Part II – Headings, Uniform Titles, and References
– RDA• Recording attributes• Recording relationships
RDA Structure
• Introduction• Attributes– Sections 1-4
• Relationships– Sections 5-10
• Appendices• Glossary
Differences from AACR2
• Terminology
AACR2 RDA
area element
main entry authorized access point
added entry access point
uniform title preferred title for a work
heading authorized access point
see references variant access points
Differences from AACR2
• Categorization of resources– AACR2 has GMDs– RDA has media type, carrier type, and content
type
Differences from AACR2
• Level of description– AACR2 has first, second, and third levels of
description– RDA has core elements and other elements
• Sources of information– AACR2 specifies a chief source of information for
each class of material– RDA divides resources into three categories and
specifies a preferred source of information for each
Changes to MARC Format
• New code in LDR/18 (Descriptive Cataloging Form) and new code in 040
• Enter media terms in 336, 337, and 338, not 245 $h• New authority fields
RDA Testing
• Three national libraries in the U.S.– Library of Congress– National Agricultural Library– National Library of Medicine
• Test partners– institutions that produce MARC 21 and/or non-MARC
records; – library professional associations; – library educators; – vendor/book jobbers; and – selected individuals.
RDA Test PartnersLibrary of CongressNational Agricultural LibraryNational Library of MedicineBackstage Library WorksBrigham Young UniversityCarnegie Library of PittsburghClark Art Institute LibraryUniversity of ChicagoCollege Center for Library Automation,
FloridaColumbia UniversityDouglas County Libraries, ColoradoEmory UniversityGSLIS Group (Dominican University,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Minnesota Historical SocietyMorgan Library and MuseumMusic Library Association/Online
Audiovisual Catalogers, Inc.North Carolina State University LibrariesUniversity of North DakotaNorth East Independent School District,
San Antonio, TexasNortheastern UniversityOCLC Metadata Contract ServicesOhio State University LibrariesState Library of PennsylvaniaQuality BooksStanford University LibrariesGeorge Washington University
RDA Testing Timeline
• July 1-September 30, 2010 – test partners become familiar with the content of RDA and with navigating the RDA Toolkit
• October 1-December 31, 2010 – test partners produce records and share them with the Test Coordinating Committee
• January 1-March, 2011 – RDA Test Coordinating Committee analyzes records and prepares report for the three national libraries
RDA Test Records
• Core test set of 20-25 resources representative of a range of digital and analog resources
• Textual monographs, AV materials, serials, and integrating resources
• Each test partner will create one record using RDA and one record using its currently adopted cataloging code
• Test partners will be adding RDA-based records to WorldCat
• RDA instructions• Views of RDA content by table of contents and
by RDA element set• AACR2 Rule Number Search of RDA
instructions• Workflows, mappings, examples• Full text of AACR2 with links to RDA
Additional Information• RDA Toolkit – http://access.rdatoolkit.org
Profile Name: rda-princetonPassword: rda
• “AACR2 vs. RDA” (by Tom Delsey) – http://presentations.ala.org/images/1/10/LLL-Delsey-ALA2009.ppt
• “Changes from AACR2 to RDA: A Comparison of Examples” (by Adam L. Schiff) http://faculty.washington.edu/aschiff/BCLAPresentationWithNotes-RevMay2010.pdf
• Presentations on RDA (JSC) – http://www.rda-jsc.org/rdapresentations.html
• RDA Train-the-Trainer Webcasts (LC) – http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/rda/trainthetrainer.html
• RDA and OCLC – http://www.oclc.org/us/en/rda/about.htm