RDA & OCLC Glenn Patton Director, WorldCat Quality Management The world’s libraries. Connected. Today’s topics • Since we last talked … • What’s coming … • Future.
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RDA & OCLC Glenn Patton Director, WorldCat Quality Management The world’s libraries. Connected. Today’s topics • Since we last talked … • What’s coming … • Future policies The world’s libraries. Connected. Since we last talked … • MARC 21 Format Updates, no. 13-14 and various code list changes • Installed May 13, 2012 • Full details in OCLC Technical Bulletin 261 http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/worldcat/tb/261/default.htm • Highlights: • Field 264 • 3XX fields in Bibliographic and Authority records The world’s libraries. Connected. MARC format changes Bibliographic Authority • 264 Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice • 368 Other Corporate Body Attributes • 344 Sound Characteristics • 345 Projection Characteristics of Moving Image • 346 Video Characteristics • 347 Digital File Characteristics • 377 Associated Language • Additional subfields in field 340, 382 and 383 The world’s libraries. Connected. • 378 Fuller Form of Personal Name • Additional subfields in field 377, 382 and 384 Since we last talked … • Indexing changes (Authority records) • Entity attribute (en:) index • 368 ‡a, ‡b, ‡c 377 ‡l 378 ‡q 383 ‡d, ‡e • Field 264 elements included in Publisher (pb: and pl:) and Keyword (kw:) indexes and in search results The world’s libraries. Connected. Since we last talked … • RDA Workforms • Bibliographic and authority workforms • Set a preference in the Connexion client (version 2.40) and browser • Ongoing Record matching changes for RDA elements • Additional validation rules to insure correct coding • IP authentication to link to the RDA Toolkit The world’s libraries. Connected. What’s coming … • MARC format changes from this conference • More macros • Additional validation rules to insure correct coding • Ongoing Record matching changes for RDA elements The world’s libraries. Connected. Future policies • Current OCLC policy statement is still in place: http://www.oclc.org/us/en/rda/policy.htm • Discussion paper (Incorporating RDA practices into WorldCat): http://www.oclc.org/us/en/rda/discussion.htm • This paper was posted for about a 2 month comment period which ended April 15. 40+ comments were received and have been compiled. We are analyzing them. • Result: A policy statement that will replace the one above, issued sometime later this year. • Overwhelmingly positive and thoughtful comments from the review The world’s libraries. Connected. RDA Policy Issues • NO ONE WILL BE REQUIRED TO DO ORIGINAL CATALOGING ACCORDING TO RDA • OCLC proposes allowing anyone to change records created under previous codes to RDA beginning after March 31, 2013. • All headings, when controlled, will be in accord with authority file (so will be RDA when that change happens) • Scope: Records with cataloging language of English (040 $b eng) The world’s libraries. Connected. RDA Policy Issues: Changes to Existing Records • Allow addition of Content/Media/Carrier type (336/337/338 fields) to any bibliographic records • Allow additional access points • Spell out abbreviations in non-transcribed fields (e.g. spell out “p.” to “pages” & “ill.” to “illustrations” in 300) • Change Latin abbreviations to RDA spelled out English equivalents (for example, “[publisher not identified]” instead of “[s.n.]”, “approximately” instead of “ca.”) The world’s libraries. Connected. RDA Policy Issues: Controversial Proposal • Most controversial: proposal to delete GMD from 245 when adding 336/337/338 fields to AACR2 records • We do want to do this in WorldCat, but will delay this for a yet to be determined period of time --- mainly a display issue for local systems The world’s libraries. Connected. Linked Data and WorldCat • OCLC has added linked data to WorldCat by appending Schema.org descriptive mark-up to WorldCat.org pages. • Library-specific extensions defined in cooperation with Schema.org partners (Google, Bing, Yahoo!, and Yandex) • A further step in exposing library data to the broader Web • A first step in adding linked data to WorldCat • A step toward RDA implementation scenario #1 www.oclc.org/news The world’s libraries. Connected. Questions? The world’s libraries. Connected.