Transcript Change is in the Air: What’s New with RDA & FRBR?

Change is in the Air:
What’s New with RDA & FRBR?
2006 OLC Technical Services Retreat
April 25, 2006
Glenn Patton
Topics for today
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Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
(FRBR)
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Functional Requirements for Authority Records
(FRAR)
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Functional Requirements for Subject Authority
Records (FRSAR)
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IFLA Meeting of Experts on an International
Cataloguing Code (IME-ICC)
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Resource Description and Access (RDA)
Functional Requirements for
Bibliographic Records
What FRBR Is & Isn’t?
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It isn’t a standard –
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It’s a conceptual model –
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So, it’s not something to implement
It helps us think about current standards and
practices
It’s a tool
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It clarifies how catalogs should function
Four User Tasks
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Find
Identify
Select
Obtain
And, maybe a fifth:
 Navigate
Used by
permission of
William Denton
FRBR Working Group activities
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Working Group on Aggregates
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Working Group on the Expression Entity
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Working Group on FRBR/CRM Dialogue
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Survey of System Vendors
Working Group on Aggregates
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New working group chaired by Ed O’Neill
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Looking at issues related to:
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collections, selections, anthologies...
augmentations
series
journals
integrating resources
multipart monographs
Working Group on the Expression Entity
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Proposal to refine the description of
Expression in Section 3.2.2 of FRBR
Problematic statement:
“Strictly speaking, any change in
intellectual or artistic content constitutes a
change in expression.”
Working Group on FRBR/CRM Dialogue
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Joint IFLA Cataloguing Section/ICM
International Committee for Documentation
project
Harmonizing FRBR bibliographic model with
the CRM cultural heritage information model
Expressing FRBR entity-relationship model
as an object-oriented model
System Vendor Survey
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70 questionnaires;12 responses
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67% keep up to date with FRBR activities;
41% actively participate
System Vendor Survey
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50% said FRBR has had no impact on
current products
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67% said FRBR has some impact on product
development
System Vendor Survey
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67% have customers inquiring about or
asking for FRBR support
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84% said “valuable conceptual tool” or “useful
practical tool
FRBR in use
OCLC’s Open WorldCat
FRBR in use
OCLC’s FirstSearch Pilot
FRBR resources
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IFLA FBR Review Group
http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/wgfrbr/wgfrbr.htm
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FRBR Blog http://www.frbr.org/
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Tillett, Barbara. “What is FRBR?: A Conceptual Model
for the Bibliographic Universe.” 2004. Available at
http://www.loc.gov/cds/downloads/FRBR.PDF
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Maurer, Margaret. “Before You Attend the Workshop:
FRBR and the Future,” TechKNOW 10, no. 4 (March
2004). Available at
http://www.library.kent.edu/files/TechKNOWMarch2004.pdf
Functional Requirements for
Authority Records
FRAR
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FRBR – “the need to extend the model … to
cover authority data”
Working group established in 1998
Worldwide review completed in October 2005
Final editing of functional requirements in
process
Bibliographic
Entities
known by
Names and/or
Identifiers
basis for
Controlled Access
Points
FRAR resources
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Patton, Glenn. “FRAR: Extending FRBR
Concepts to Authority Data.” 2005. Available
at: http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla71/papers/014ePatton.pdf
The functional requirements document as
made available for worldwide review:
http://www.ifla.org/VII/d4/wg-franar.htm
Functional Requirements for
Subject Authority Records
FRSAR
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A further extension of FRBR into the area of
subject access
Both subject thesauri and classification
Working group chaired by Marcia Zeng (Kent
State University), Maja Žumer (University of
Ljubljana) and Athena Salaba (Kent State
University)
http://www.ifla.org/VII/s29/wgfrsar.htm
FRSAR terms of reference
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Build a conceptual model of Group 3 entities within
the FRBR framework
Provide a clearly defined, structured frame of
reference for relating the data that are recorded in
subject authority records to the needs of the users
of those records
Assist in an assessment of the potential for
international sharing and use of subject authority
data both within the library sector and beyond
IFLA Meeting of Experts on
an International Cataloguing
Code
IFLA Meeting of Experts
on an International Cataloguing Code
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“A code for code makers”
Meetings of Experts
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Frankfurt (2003)
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Buenos Aires (2004)
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Cairo (2005)
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Seoul (2006)
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Durban (2007)
http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/index.htm#IME-ICC
Resource Description and
Access
RDA
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Joint Steering Committee meeting this week,
Ottawa, Ontario
Agenda:
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Review of comments on Part I (Resource
Description)
Initial Review of Part II (Relationships)
Part I — Resource Description
Introduction to part I
Chapter 1. General guidelines on resource description
Chapter 2. Identification of the resource
Chapter 3. Technical description
Chapter 4. Content description
Chapter 5. Information on terms of availability, etc.
Chapter 6. Item-specific information
Part II — Relationships
Introduction to part II
Chapter 7. General guidelines on reflecting
relationships
Chapter 8. Access points reflecting relationships to
persons, families, and corporate bodies
Chapter 9. Citations for related works, etc.
Chapter 10. Special instructions for particular types of
works
Part III - Access Point Control
Introduction to part III
Chapter 11. General guidelines on access point control
Chapter 12. Names of persons
Chapter 13. Names of families
Chapter 14. Names of corporate bodies
Chapter 15. Names of places
Chapter 16. Citations for works, etc.
Chapter 17. Other information used in access point
control
Appendices, etc.
Appendix A. Capitalization
Appendix B. Abbreviations
Appendix C. Initial articles
Appendix D. Presentation of descriptive data
Appendix E. Presentation of access point
control data
Glossary
Index
RDA Timeline
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May 2005-July 2005: Development of prospectus
Oct. 2005-April. 2006: Completion of draft of part I,
and constituency review
May 2006-Sept. 2006: Completion of draft of part II,
and constituency review
Oct. 2006-Apr. 2007: Completion of draft of part III,
and constituency review
May 2007-Sept. 2007: Completion of General
Introduction, Appendices, and Glossary
2008: Publication
Changes in “the Process”
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Drafts openly available for review and
comment
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/rda.html
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Constituent comments also available
ALA: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/tas/jca/ccda/docs/5rda-part1alaresp.pdf
CILIP: http://www.slainte.org.uk/aacr/pubs/5rda-part1cilipresp.pdf
RDA and ONIX?
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Joint initiative announced April 10:
“… to develop a framework for categorizing
resources in all media that will support the
needs of both libraries and the publishing
industry and will facilitate the transfer and use
of resource description data across the two
communities.”
RDA information
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On the JSC website:
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/rda.html
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On the CC:DA website:
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/tas/jca/ccda/index.html
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ALCTS Forum on RDA:
Saturday, June 24th, 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
Morial Convention Center, Room 295/296
More Questions?
Glenn Patton
[email protected]
1-800-848-5878, ext. 6371