1. RDA is Here: Are You Ready?
Emily Dust Nimsakont • Nebraska Library Commission
March 28, 2013
Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stmpjmpr/4922756740/
2. What is RDA?
Why RDA?
A Foray into FRBR
What will be different now?
What might be different later?
How to prepare
3. What Is RDA?
• Resource Description and Access
• Cataloging code to replace AACR2
• Content standard, not display standard or
encoding standard
4. • Work
started on
AACR3
2003
• Focus
changed to
RDA
2005
• RDA
published
2010
• RDA tested
by national
libraries
2010-2011
The Story So Far…
6. What is RDA?
Why RDA?
A Foray into FRBR
What will be different now?
What might be different later?
How to prepare
7. It’s not the 1970s anymore…
Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sacheverelle/2659497000/
8. Our catalogs have changed.
Photo credits:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/annarbor/4349876203/, http://www.flickr.com/ph
9. The things we catalog have changed.
And they will continue to change.
Photo credits:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cjc/3494515480/, http://www.flickr.com/photos/mdurwin/3082945477/
10. The information universe has changed.
Photo credits:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thms/2821859479/, http://www.flickr.com/photos
/herzogbr/2115042793/
11. What is RDA?
Why RDA?
A Foray into FRBR
What will be different now?
What might be different later?
How to prepare
15. User Tasks
“to identify an entity (i.e., to confirm that the
entity described corresponds to the entity
sought, or to distinguish between two or
more entities with similar characteristics)”
16. User Tasks
“to select an entity
that is appropriate
to the user’s needs
(i.e., to choose an
entity that meets
the user’s
requirements with
respect to
content, physical
format, etc. ...)”
17. User Tasks
“to acquire or
obtain access to
the entity
described (i.e., to
acquire an entity
through
purchase, loan, e
tc., or to access
an entity
electronically…)”
18. “a conceptual entity-relationship model … that
relates user tasks of retrieval and access in
online library catalogues and bibliographic
databases from a user’s perspective”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRBR
19. What’s an entity?
“a thing which is recognized as being capable of
an independent existence and which can be
uniquely identified”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity-relationship_model
Entity
Entity
Entity
22. FRBR has three groups of entities.
Group 1
• Work
• Expression
• Manifestation
• Item
Group 2
• Person
• Corporate
Body
Group 3
• Concept
• Object
• Place
• Event
• Group 1 & 2
Entities
25. What is RDA?
Why RDA?
A Foray into FRBR
What will be different now?
What might be different later?
How to prepare
26. RDA Structure
Recording Attributes
Section 1 – Recording Attributes of Manifestation
and Item
Section 2 – Recording Attributes of Work and
Expression
Section 3 – Recording Attributes of Person, Family,
and Corporate Body
Section 4 – Recording Attributes of Concept, Object,
Event, and Place
27. RDA Structure
Recording Attributes
• Recording Relationships
– Section 5 – Recording Primary Relationships Between a
Work, Expression, Manifestation, and Item
– Section 6 – Recording Relationships to Persons, Families,
and Corporate Bodies Associated with a Resource
– Section 7 – Recording Subject Relationships
– Section 8 – Recording Relationships Between Works,
Expressions, Manifestations and Items
– Section 9 – Recording Relationships Between Persons,
Families, and Corporate Bodies
– Section 10 – Recording Relationships Between Concepts,
Objects, Events, and Places
28. Elements instead of Areas
Chicago : American Library Association, 1999.
Chicago
American Library Association
1999
29. Core Elements
• Some elements defined as core in RDA
• Some elements are core in certain
circumstances - “core-if”
• Library of Congress treats additional elements
as core
• Libraries can make their own local decisions
about core elements
30. Changes in Terminology
AACR2 RDA
Heading Authorized Access Point
See Reference Variant Access Point
See Also Reference Authorized Access Point for
Related Entry
Physical Description Carrier Description
General Material Designation Content Type; Media Type;
Carrier Type
Chief Source Preferred Source
32. Lack of Latin Abbreviations
[Chicago] : American Library Association, 1967.
OR
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not
identified], 1967.
NOT
[S.l. : s.n.], 1967.
33. Lack of Latin Abbreviations
Micromagentic study of magnetoeleastic
materials
Title should read: Micromagnetic study of
magnetoeleastic materials
NOT
Micromagentic [sic] study of
magnetoeleastic materials
34. No Rule of Three in Statement of
Responsibility
… / by Nancy Drew, George Fayne, Bess Marvin,
and Ned Nickerson.
OR
… / by Nancy Drew *and three others+.
NOT
… / by Nancy Drew … *et al.+.
35. More Transcription - “Take What You
See”
Third edition
NOT
3rd ed.
(if that is how it appears on the item)
36. More Transcription - “Take What You
See”
forward by Dr. John Smith
NOT
forward by John Smith
(if that is how it appears on the item)
37. More Transcription - “Take What You
See”
Chicago, IL
NOT
Chicago, Ill.
(if that is how it appears on the item)
38. Content Type, Media Type and Carrier
Type
two-dimensional moving image rdacontent
video rdamedia
videodisc rda carrier
NOT
Avatar [videorecording]
44. New MARC Fields
336 _ _ $a text $b txt $2 rdacontent
337 _ _ $a unmediated $b n $2 rdamedia
338 _ _ $a volume $b nc $2 rdacarrier
336 _ _ $3 book $a text $2 rdacontent
336 _ _ $3 CD $a spoken word $2 rdacontent
337 _ _ $3 book $a unmediated $2 rdamedia
337 _ _ $3 CD $a audio $2 rdamedia
338 _ _ $3 book $a volume $2 rdacarrier
338 _ _ $3 CD $a audio disc $2 rdacarrier
45. New MARC Fields
• 264
• Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufactur
e and Copyright Statements
• First indicator:
– Sequence of statements
# - Not applicable/No information provided/Earliest
2 - Intervening
3 - Current/latest
46. New MARC Fields
• 264
• Production, Publication, Distribution,
Manufacture and Copyright Statements
• Second indicator:
– Function of entity
0 - Production
1 - Publication
2 - Distribution
3 - Manufacture
4 - Copyright notice date
47. New MARC Fields
• 344 – sound characteristics
• 345 – projection characteristics of moving
image
• 346 – video characteristics
• 347 – digital file characteristics
51. Differences in Authority Records
• 046 - Special Coded Dates
• 368 – Other Corporate Body Attributes
• 370 - Associated Place
• 371 - Address
• 372 - Field of Activity
• 373 - Associated Group
• 374 - Occupation
• 375 - Gender
• 376 - Family Information
• 378 - Fuller Form of Personal Name
52. Examples of RDA Records
Examples on RDA Toolkit Website
http://www.rdatoolkit.org/examples/MARC
53. Examples of RDA Records
• OCLC Records
• Search “rda” in descriptive conventions (dx:)
• Add limiters (format, year, material type)
• Can add limiter for your own library
• Can add limiter of date created as MARC (dm:)
and write the date as YYYYMMDD
56. What is RDA?
Why RDA?
A Foray into FRBR
What will be different now?
What might be different later?
How to prepare
64. Wikipedia says…
“Linked Data describes a method of publishing
structured data, so that it can be interlinked and
become more useful. It builds upon standard
web technologies, such as HTTP and URIs - but
rather than using them to serve web pages for
human readers, it extends them to share
information in a way that can be read
automatically by computers.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data
Our catalogs have changedThe things we catalog have changed (and will continue to change)The bibliographic universe is differentThat’s my elevator speech for RDA
Also show them examples from your own catalog.
Dracula as test search
Working Forest as example
Instead of searching for “Jane Austen”, a user could search for women authors from England who wrote in the 1800s.
Richer authority records include things like gender, associated dates, associated place, and field of activity. Instead of searching for “Jane Austen”, a user could search for women authors from England who wrote in the 1800s.
Partnership between the Archives of Michigan, the Internet Archive, Freebase, Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond, and LookBackMaps.Does anyone know of any other examples, either of data that is out there, or particular projects?