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RDA: Past, Present, Future
Hugh Taylor
CILIP Representative, Joint Steering Committee
for Development of RDA
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RDA Quick Facts
• New content standard intended to replace
AACR2
• Goes further in what it covers
• Web-based product
• Full draft (as PDFs) currently out for
worldwide review
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RDA – the past
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RDA – the background
• Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules currently 2nd edition, 2002 revision
• Revisions the responsibility of the Joint
Steering Committee for Development of
RDA (JSC)
• Used by libraries world-wide both in
English and in translation
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RDA – the background
• Toronto 1997 conference on Principles and
Future Development of AACR
• Some of the problems with AACR2
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Designed for the card catalogue
Case-based and logically inconsistent
Class of materials arrangement is not extensible
Authority control not handled well
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Goals for RDA
• A new standard for resource description and
access
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Designed for the digital world
Optimised for use as an online product
Description and access of all resources
All types of content and media
Resulting records usable in the digital environment
Part of the new information architecture
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Goals for RDA
• A consistent, flexible, and extensible
framework
• Compatible with internationally established
principles, models and standards
• Primarily for use in libraries, but also
adaptable across many information
communities worldwide
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RDA Foundations
• Support FRBR user tasks
– Find, Identify, Select, Obtain
• FRAD user tasks
– Find, Identify, Contextualize, Justify
• IME ICC statement
• Principle of representation
– Record elements based on how resource represents
itself
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RDA – the present
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RDA development
structure
Committee
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Principals
RDA Project
Manager
RDA Editor
AACR Fund
Trustees/
Publishers
ALA
CC:DA
Joint Steering
Committee
ACOC
BL
CCC
JSC
Secretary
CILIP
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LC
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RDA development process
• Open process during development
– Editor drafts chapters for review by JSC
– Editor revises chapters for public review
– JSC considers comments and requests changes to
text by the Editor
– Editor revises draft text
– Also JSC & constituency proposals
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RDA structure
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Not tied to any specific record structure
Alignment with the FRBR and FRAD models
Adaptable and extensible
Two main parts
– Attributes of the FRBR entities
– Relationships between the entities
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RDA, ISBD, MARC 21
• AACR2 Part I was organized around ISBD areas
• RDA is a content standard - not a display or
encoding standard
• ISBD display (including punctuation) is in an
appendix
• MARC 21 is one possible carrier for RDA data
– RDA/MARC Working Group formed to deal with changes to
MARC 21
– But MARC is unlikely to be best long-term approach to encoding
data (this isn’t RDA-specific…)
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RDA – where are we right now?
• Full draft (as PDFs) released for public review Nov 2008
• JSC will consider comments at March meeting
• Expect that RDA content for first release will be finalised
by end of June
• But publishers hadn’t made sufficient progress with
product development to put full draft in pre-release
version
• Implementation likely in 2010
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RDA – the future
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Implementation
• LC/NLM/NAL: Decision to implement RDA will
be based upon evaluation of its utility within the
library and information environment
– Period of testing and evaluation following the release
of RDA - results will be disseminated
• BL, LAC, NLA will also conduct testing prior to
implementation and disseminate their results
• ALA has set up an Implementation Task Force
• BL has similar (and has staff member dedicated
to this)
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Financial stuff
• Cost factors
– Year on year costs of RDA
– Lifespan costs of AACR
• Licensing and pricing
– Finding the right model
– An existing model in LIS marketplace?
– Repay investment in RDA development
• When will we know?
– More information needed from ALA Publishing
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Other communities
• JSC has already been working with other
metadata communities
– MARC (of course)
– ONIX (publishers)
– Dublin Core, IEEE/LOM, Semantic Web
• DCMI/RDA Task Group was formed in 2007 and
is continuing work on RDA Vocabularies – this is
very important for the future use of RDA
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Everything is connected
• at the community (human)…
• …and technical (Semantic Web) levels
• (And within RDA itself, there’s a strong
emphasis on “relationships”)
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Looking further ahead
• After publication CoP/JSC will review
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Systems for content updating
Systems for product enhancement
Governance of RDA
Future business model
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References
• RDA website
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/rda.html
• Strategic plan
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/stratplan.html
• RDA Prospectus
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/jsc/rdaprospectus.html
• Objectives and principles
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/jsc/docs/5rda-objectivesrev2.pdf
• International Cataloguing Principles
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http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/icc/imeicc-statement_of_principles-2008.pdf
FRBR - http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr/frbr.pdf
FRAD - http://www.ifla.org/VII/d4/franar-conceptual-model-2ndreview.pdf
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