Update on CEAL RDA Review Update on CEAL RDA Review CEAL 2008 Annual CEAL 2008 Annual

Shi Deng, UC San Diegosdeng@ucsd.edu

CEAL CTP MeetingApril 2, 2008

RDA: RDA: Resource Description and AccessResource Description and Access

A new standard for resource description and access that will replace AACR2◦A principle based content standard◦A web based product

Designed for the digital environment

URL for RDA drafts and more details: http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/rda.html

RDA Drafts Review TimetableRDA Drafts Review Timetable

Before 2006 CEAL Annual: Part I, Description. Chapters 1-6. LC’s proposal on RDA Part I Internationalization.CEAL comments available at CTP web site:

(http://cealctp.lib.uci.edu/)

Between 2006 and 2007 CEAL Annual: Part A, Description. Chapters 6-7 on Relationships. Revised LC’s proposal on RDA Part I

Internationalization.Scope and Structure. No comments submitted by CEAL

RDA Drafts Review TimetableRDA Drafts Review Timetable

Between 2007 and 2008 CEAL Annual:March-June 2007:

Revised chapter 3 on Carrier in Part AJuly-September 2007:

Revised chapter 6-7 on relationship in Part ADecember 2007-March 2008:

Review of Section 2-4, 9 (former Part B on Access Point Control)

LC Proposal on Designation of Roles in RDALC Proposal on Musical works and expressions

No comments submitted by CEAL

RDA Drafts Review TimetableRDA Drafts Review Timetable

After 2008 CEAL Annual: July 2008: Release full draft of RDA in its web based

formatEarly 2009: Release of RDALater 2009: Implementation of RDA with MARC

RDA: New StructureRDA: New StructureNew structure relates data elements more closely to

both FRBR entities and user tasks. The existing Part A and Part B is replaced by 10 sections which focus firstly on recording attributes for FRBR entities, and then on recording relationships between these entities.

Terminology reflects the use of FRBR and FRAD Important words in the draft are 'preferred' and

'variant.' Each may be found before 'access point,' 'title,' and 'name.‘

AACR2 RDA

Main/Added entry Preferred access point (title, name)

Reference Variant access point (title, name]

Uniform title Preferred title

RDA: InternationalizationRDA: InternationalizationReferences to the English language in the

instructions have been replaced by the phrase “the language and script preferred by the agency creating the data.”

References to “non-roman” language and script have been removed.

Recording non-roman data is addressed with examples given in the draft.

RDA Related ActivitiesRDA Related ActivitiesDCMI (Dublin Core Metadata Initiatives)/RDA Task

Force working on RDA vocabularies by proposing to surface these underlying bibliographic elements in the form of Semantic Web vocabularies, thereby making them reusable in Semantic Web applications and citable with Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs)

RDA/MARC Working Group collaborating on the development of proposals for changes to the MARC 21 formats to accommodate the encoding of RDA data

ALA RDA Implementation TF focusing on identifying training/CE activities and coordinating with various groups regarding their plans for RDA Implementation

IFLA Satellite Conference on RDA: A New Standard for a Digital World, Friday, August 8, 2008

How you can get involvedHow you can get involvedSubscribe RDA-L listserv or read discussion

archives at: http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/rdadiscuss.html

Review RDA drafts and send comments:◦Send to CEAL RDA Review Subcommittee via

sdeng@ucsd.edu , OR ◦Use the web form at

http://www.libraries.psu.edu/tas/jca/ccda/ or http://www.ala.org/alcts.

Instruction on sending commentsInstruction on sending comments

1. Rule number for the rule upon which you are commenting;

2. A brief statement of the problem;3. Your proposed solution(s) to the

problem;4. Your name and email address.

CEAL CTP RDA Review SubcommitteeCEAL CTP RDA Review Subcommittee

Members:Ai-lin Yang (Stanford)Chwang Chia Yang (LC)Daphne Wang (U. Oregon)Dawn Lawson (NYU)Edwin Yu (CJKat)Evelyn Kuo (UC Berkeley)Iping K. Wei (Princeton)Jai-hsya Tsao (U. Chicago)Joy Kim (USC)Wen-Ling D. Liu (Indiana)Nanako Kodaira (Duke) Shi Deng (UCSD,

Coordinator)Thomas Tsai (LC)Wayne Richter (W.

Washington)Young-ki Lee (LC)

Advisors: Abraham J. Yu (UC Irvine, CEAL past

president)Beatrice Chang Ohta (LC)Hideyuki Morimoto (Columbia,

Chair, ALA/CC:AAM RDA Task Force)

Philip A Melzer (LC, CEAL president)Sarah S. Elman (Yale, ALA/CC:AAM

RDA Task Force)

Ex-OfficioMary Lin (Wisconsin-Madison, Chair,

CTP)

Comments Consolidation Dawn LawsonNanako KodairaShi Deng

Please join the shared effort Please join the shared effort in CEAL Review of RDA Drafts in CEAL Review of RDA Drafts

Suggestions/Comments? Send to sdeng@ucsd.edu

Thank You!