Transcript RDA: Resource Description and Access

RDA Implementation:
What’s In It For You?
Lori Robare
RDA :
Resource Description and Access
• RDA has been developed as a
replacement for AACR2
– By the Joint Steering Committee (JSC)
• International effort: U.S., U.K., Canada,
Australia, Germany
• Published in June 2010
• Tested by U.S. libraries July 2010-March
2011
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Gradual implementation
• Library of Congress completed its
implementation in March 2013
• Many libraries are beginning to catalog in RDA
• When to implement is a local decision
• RDA records are compatible with AACR2
records
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RDA
• Fundamental re-thinking of cataloging theory and practice
– Yet designed to be compatible with existing records
• Based on internationally established principles, models
and standards
• Designed with the user in mind, using terminology that
makes sense
• A more consistent and flexible framework for describing
all types of resources
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RDA ...
• defines individual data elements, many with
controlled vocabulary lists
• can (and will) be used with MARC, but is
structured to work with new data formats
• clearly indicates the nature of relationships -between works and their creators, etc.
• will support the integration of library catalog data
with data produced by other metadata
communities
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Functional Requirements for
Bibliographic Records (FRBR)

User tasks
Find
• Identify
• Select
• Obtain
•
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Entity-relationship model
Entities: Group 1, 2, 3
• Relationships
• Attributes
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FRBR Group 1,
Group 2 and
Relationships
Work
Expression
Manifestation
Item
is owned by
Person
is produced by
Family
is realized by
is created by
Corporate Body
many
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Changes you’ll see in catalog records
• “Take what you see” in fields that we
transcribe:
– Title, statement of responsibility, edition,
publication information, etc.
– Much less adjusting, abbreviating, omitting,
bracketing
– No longer using [sic] for errors
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AACR2:
Title:
Edition:
Alt title:
Bizzare [sic] tales
3rd rev. ed.
Bizarre tales
RDA:
Title:
Edition:
Alt title:
Bizzare tales
Third revised edition
Corrected title: Bizarre tales
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(optional)
Less abbreviating, more words:
Physical description / extent
AACR2:
86, [21] p. : ill., 1 folded map ; 24 cm.
RDA:
86 pages, 21 unnumbered pages : illustrations,
1 folded map ; 24 cm
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Capitalization MAY differ
• May match what is on the item
AACR2:
Title:
RDA:
Title:
Baltic journal of art history
Baltic journal of art history
OR
Baltic journal of ART HISTORY
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No more [et. al]
• No limit on the number of people recorded in a single
statement of responsibility (or on the number of access points)
AACR2:
America’s radical right / Raymond Wolfinger ... [et al.].
RDA:
America’s radical right / Raymond Wolfinger, Martin Shapiro, Fred
I. Greenstein, Steven J. Rosenstone.
Alternative:
America’s radical right / Raymond Wolfinger [and three others].
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Latin terms replaced
• AACR2, when you could not even guess place
of publication or name of publisher:
[S. l.] : [s.n.]
• RDA:
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not
identified]
…but actually we will most often give a probable
place, even just: [United States?]
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More discrete statements about
publication (distribution, etc.)
• AACR2 and the MARC 260 field combine
information about publication, distribution,
manufacture, and copyright in one text string
• RDA defines separate elements for these
– And the new MARC 264 field allows separate
statements in a MARC record
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New MARC field
for publication information: 264
Provides separate statements for information
about publication, distribution, manufacture,
and copyright
264 _1 [United States] : $b Harvest House Publishers,
$c [2010]
264 _4 $c ©2010
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2nd indicator describes the function
264 Second indicator:
0
1
2
3
4
Production
Publication
Distribution
Manufacture
Copyright notice date
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Catalog display making use of separate
statements (Stanford University Libraries)
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No more [General material designation]
• GMD is the bracketed information in the title that conveys
the type of material
[electronic resource]
[sound recording]
[videorecording]
• Replaced by three new elements:
336 Content type (performed music, spoken word, text, etc.)
337 Media type (audio, microform, video, etc.)
338 Carrier type (audio disc, online resource, videodisc, etc)
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AACR2 : e-book
Game of thrones and philosophy [electronic resource] :
logic cuts deeper than swords / edited by Henry Jacoby.
RDA : e-book
Game of thrones and philosophy : logic cuts deeper than
swords / edited by Henry Jacoby.
336 $a text $2 rdacontent
337 $a computer $2 rdamedia
338 $a online resource $2 rdacarrier
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Replace GMD
BYU’s catalog:
a music CD
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RDA Carrier Type displayed in search results (BYU)
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Changes in headings/access points: highlights
• Abbreviations spelled out:
Lee, John, 18th cent.
 Lee, John, 18th century
Smith, Jane, ca. 1820-1865  Smith, Jane, approximately 1820-1865
Tate, Ellen, fl. 1893-1940  Tate, Ellen, active 1893-1940
• “Department” spelled out, if it is used that way
Ohio. Dept. of Commerce  Ohio. Department of Commerce
• Parts of the Bible
Bible. O.T.
Bible. O.T. Genesis
 Bible. Old Testament
 Bible. Genesis
NGIN, May 2013
Identifying people
• … & corporate bodies, & families
• And naming relationships
Open Clip Art Library: russel
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RDA authority record for a person:
Labelled display, from LC’s Authorities Database
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RDA authority record for a person –
with new MARC fields
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Relationships in RDA
• Naming relationships between:
– person (or corporate body) and a resource
• Jane Doe is the choreographer of this dance
– between resources
• ABC is a parody of XYZ
– between people, corporate bodies, etc.
• Samuel Clemens is the real identity of Mark Twain
• …in a very structured way, that computers can
understand
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In a catalog record…
• Author access points MAY be followed by
terms describing the role of the person or
organization:
– e.g., author, editor, composer, filmmaker,
performer, production company, sponsoring body
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In a catalog record…
• Access points for related works MAY have
introductory terms specifying the nature of
the relationship
– e.g., based on …, abridgement of … , parody of …,
remake of … , prequel to …
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Looking ahead: the potential
• RDA data elements and vocabularies have been
registered
– Formally defined in an open metadata registry
– Each term has a unique URI
• Machines can use and interpret catalog information
in a new way
• Opens up our world to others who want to organize
and structure information – or use our data
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http://metadataregistry.org/
The following slides adapted from a presentation by Diane Hillmann
RDA Relationships for Persons,
Corporate Bodies, Families
Real identity
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Detail: Real identity
URI
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A computer can “understand”:
• Mark Twain
– (link to name authority record)
viaf.org/viaf/50566653
• Has real identity
– (link to “Real identity” role in the registry):
metadataregistry.org/uri/schema/RDARelationshipsGR2/realIdentity (RDF)
• Samuel Clemens
– (link to name authority record)
http://viaf.org/viaf/53367783
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Part of Mark Twain’s authority record in LC’s catalog
…which is linked to the Virtual International Authority File
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Which is referenced in the Wikipedia entry for Mark Twain
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“Elevator speech”
• RDA aims to provide catalog data that will
help libraries define our presence on the Web
– With well-defined and structured data elements
– Clearly indicating relationships among works and
the people responsible for them
– Clearer language for our patrons
– Data that is easier for computers to manipulate
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Thank you!
Lori Robare
[email protected]
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