Transcript Future of Bibliographic Control

The Future of Bibliographic Control:
FRBR, RDA, and DCMI
Karen E. White
CUA Student
RDA
FRBR User Tasks
The Functional Requirements for
Bibliographic Records (FRBR) from
IFLA assists catalogers and
metadata providers with a
conceptual model for organizing
information in a way that will be
helpful for users.
Find
Identify
Select
Obtain
The four FRBR user tasks describe
what a user should be able to do
with data in an online retrieval
environment:
•find a record with known values
•identify a record from a group
•select a record from a list
•obtain the resource represented
Resource Description and Access
(RDA) is a new set of guidelines for
cataloging that aims to replace AACR2
in the library community.
RDA will more easily allow for
description of both print and digital
resources. The new standard should be
released in its entirety in 2009.
RDA moves away from transcription in
records to a focus on describing
relationships between access points.
RDA is based on FRBR concepts and
the guidelines themselves are arranged
according to the FRBR entities. Like
FRBR, RDA focuses on the
relationships between access points.
RDA is a content standard, not a display
standard and therefore RDA will still
likely be functional with MARC21.
AACR2
AACR2
1978
2008
Content
Rules
Guidelines
Paris Principles
FRBR
AACR
AACR2
Stakeholders
Libraries
Metadata
community
Record storage
3 x 5 card
Electronic
database
Focus
Transcription
Relationships
Fulfills
Description
User tasks
Treatment
Print
Print and digital
Encoding
MARC21
MARC21,
Dublin Core,
others
Structure
Access points
FRBR concepts
Replaces
The FRBR conceptual model focuses on
relationships between groups of data.
Groups 1, 2, and 3 identify unique
aspects of a bibliographic work.
Group 1 Entities
Work
Expression
Manifestation
Item
RDA RDA
Published
Basis
FRBR Entities
DCMI
Many library stakeholder groups will be
fully reviewing RDA before
implementing its guidelines in their
online catalogs.
Full integration of RDA into existing
systems will take the cooperation of the
metadata community and ILS vendors.
These Group 1 Entities are relationally
hierarchical and may be applied to
existing catalog records.
By focusing on relationships, materials
with similar content will group together in
search results. By using FRBR
concepts in cataloging, the user will
more easily navigate through the OPAC.
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
(DCMI) is an international standard to
describe resources.
Dublin Core was developed to provide a
record with more information than
simple indexing, but less information
than a complete bibliographic record.
Humans can create the record and
leave it to automation to discover and
collect.
The simple Dublin Core Element Set
(DCES) is most often used to describe
digital resources and includes fifteen
elements:
Title
Type
Coverage
Contributor
Date
Subject
Source
Creator
Rights
Identifier
Description
Relation
Publisher
Format
Language
Further information
FRBR – www.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr/FRBR
Tillett, B. (2004). What is FRBR?: a
conceptual model for the bibliographic
universe. www.loc.gov/cds/FRBR.html
RDA – www.rdaonline.org
Coyle, K. A. (2007). Resource Description
and Access (RDA): cataloging rules for the
20th century. dlib.org/dlib/january07/
coyle/01coyle.html
Dublin Core – dublincore.org
Hillmann, D. (2005). Using Dublin Core.
http://dublincore.org/documents/usagegui
de/#whatis
When using FRBR, RDA, or the
DCMI for cataloging or
developing metadata for
resources in any format, think
about how the user will access
the material.
Thank you to Dr. Youngok Choi for her
research support during the 2008 fall term.
For additional information and resources
contact me at: [email protected]