Resource Description and Access (RDA) information session

Deirdre KiorgaardAustralian Committee on Cataloguing Representative to the Joint Steering Committee for the Development of RDA

AGLIN RDA information session + Q&A 2 November 2009

AACR to RDA

AACR is a robust standard, but …

‘Class of materials’ approach is no longer valid• Need for principles-based instructions • Need for extensibility

Designed for the card catalogue not digital world• Data needs to be usable in the web environment

Brave new world?

The power of the search engine

– New search algorithms, relevance ranking, synonym control …

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Next generation catalogues

• tagging

• reviews

• synonym control

• links

• full text

• table of contents

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The (not so) secret life of catalogue data (1)

“metadata increasingly appears farther and farther away from its original context” Shreeves, Riley and Milewicz (2006).

Shared library databases

Digitisation projects

Institutional repositories

The (not so) secret life of catalogue data (2)

The GLAM sectorGalleries, libraries, archives and museums

The Internet

Catalogue records have jumped the fence

Leading to:

Services based on data aggregations

Sharing of library data with other sectors

Exposure of library data to the internet

What RDA is A new standard to replace AACR Designed for the digital world

– Instructions will be a Web tool– Instructions cover description of digital resources– Resulting records to be used in web environment

Broader scope– Includes ‘authorities’

Better coverage of resource types– Online resources, visual resources

What RDA isn’t Not a replacement for MARC21 or the ILMS

– Not an encoding standard or library system

Not a panacea for every ill afflicting the catalogue, but …– It will enable improved navigation of the catalogue

and improved catalogue displays (more organised, less cluttered)

Not (necessarily) simplified cataloguing, but ..– It will offer the potential of improved efficiency of data

creation & maintenance

Advantages of RDA Clearly defined element set

– better granularity, improved mapping to other schema, e.g. Dublin Core, ISBD, MODS/MADS, MARC21

Greater emphasis on relationships– Better navigation and displays

Better interoperability - common vocabularies– Content type, carrier type, media type; Relationship

designators; Encoding formats, etc.– Making vocabularies accessible

RDA and the semantic web

Tentative Timeline2009

June

July - August

September+

2010

June?

+3 months

+3 months

+3 months

Mid 2011

Final text submitted to ALA Publishing

Keying of Final text into XML

Product development (Alpha testing;

Proofreading; Beta testing using Final text;bug fixes)

Release of RDA

Prep. period for US National libraries testing

US National libraries formal testing

US National libraries formal assessment

Earliest date for implementation

Preparing for RDAACOC & the National Library will help prepare Australian libraries with information and advice on:

TrainingDocumentation (transitional materials plus updates to LA manuals and standards)MARC changesLibrary system changes (data conversions, exchange of records)

Learning about … FRBR Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records

ACOC seminarhttp://www.nla.gov.au/lis/stndrds/grps/acoc/acocseminar2004.html

FRBR: Things You Should Know, but were afraid to askhttp://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4554

FRBR Bibliographyhttp://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/wgfrbr/bibliography.htm

FRBR and FRAD as implemented in RDA http://presentations.ala.org/images/b/b2/

FRBR_and_FRAD_as_implemented_in_RDA.ppt

Resource Description and Access Paper presented at Online 2009 – useful for examples of FRBR in databases,

library systems and catalogueshttp://www.information-online.com.au/

JSC site http://www.rda-jsc.org/rda.html

Easy to read article on Changing to RDA http://www.rda-jsc.org/docs/felicitervol53no7p250-253.pdf

RDA Prospectus http://www.rda-jsc.org/docs/5rda-prospectusrev7.pdf

Draft of RDA http://www.rdaonline.org/constituencyreview/

Changes to AACR2 Instructions http://www.rda-jsc.org/docs/5sec7rev.pdf

Using RDA with bibliographic and authority records http://www.rda-jsc.org/docs/5chair14.pdf

Learning about … RDA

Learning about … RDA in MARC21

Mappings in RDA : RDA to Bibliographic format (Appendix D), Authority Format (Appendix E).

MODS->RDA mapping and MADS->RDA mapping http://www.loc.gov/standards/mads/ and http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods//

Presentation to ALA July 2009 http://presentations.ala.org/images/f/f9/ALA.7-09-final.ppt

Proposals and discussion papers http://www.loc.gov/marc/marbi/an2009_age.html

Information on approved changes for vendors http://www.loc.gov/marc/formatchanges-RDA.html.

Keeping up to date

Information from US national libraries testinghttp://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/rda/

Australian informationhttp://www.nla.gov.au/lis/stndrds/grps/acoc/index.html

• FAQ• Upcoming presentations & Training courses• RDA-AUST discussion list• Australian implementation• ACOC conferences

RDA productInformation on the product:

http://www.publishing.ala.org/rdaonlinedotorg/

Sample RDA screens are available at: http://www.publishing.ala.org/rdaonlinedotorg/rda_samples/rda_samples.html.

RDA as a cataloguing toolInteractive, onlineIntegrated with policies and processes

Sample – RDA instructions

Thank you

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