RDA: Basics, concepts and challenges facing the Arabic cataloging

2. Tharwat
•‫بالقاهرة‬ ‫العربية‬ ‫المخطوطات‬ ‫لمعهد‬ ‫التابع‬ ‫المخطوطات‬ ‫فهرسة‬ ‫مشروع‬ ‫في‬ ‫المشاركة‬
•‫بالقاهرة‬ ‫اإلدارية‬ ‫للتنمية‬ ‫العربية‬ ‫بالمنظمة‬ ‫الرقمي‬ ‫التحويل‬ ‫عمليات‬ ‫في‬ ‫المشاركة‬
•‫والتراث‬ ‫للثقافة‬ ‫الماجد‬ ‫جمعة‬ ‫بمركز‬ ‫أول‬ ‫مفهرس‬‫المتحدة‬ ‫العربية‬ ‫اإلمارات‬ ،‫بدبي‬
•‫بدبي‬ ‫العربية‬ ‫و‬ ‫اإلسالمية‬ ‫الدراسات‬ ‫بكلية‬ ‫والتصنيف‬ ‫الفهرسة‬ ‫عمليات‬ ‫مسؤول‬
•‫بالشارقة‬ ‫اإلعالم‬ ‫و‬ ‫الثقافة‬ ‫دائرة‬ ‫من‬ ‫المكتبي‬ ‫األدب‬ ‫جائزة‬ ‫على‬ ‫حائزة‬
•‫الثق‬ ‫وزارة‬ ‫منها‬ ‫مؤسسات‬ ‫لعدة‬ ‫التصنيف‬ ‫و‬ ‫الفهرسة‬ ‫مشروعات‬ ‫من‬ ‫لعدد‬ ‫فنية‬ ‫خدمات‬ ‫استشاري‬‫و‬ ‫افة‬
‫دبي‬ ‫حاكم‬ ‫مكتوم‬ ‫آل‬ ‫راشد‬ ‫بن‬ ‫محمد‬ ‫الشيخ‬ ‫قصر‬ ‫مكتب‬ ‫مكتبة‬ ‫و‬ ‫اإلمارات‬ ‫في‬ ‫األميركية‬ ‫الجامعة‬
•‫تسجيالت‬ ‫تحويل‬ ‫مشروع‬ ‫في‬ ‫المشاركة‬non-MARC = MARC Records
•‫دورية‬ ‫بصفة‬ ‫مشارك‬‫بمؤتمر‬‫المتخصصة‬ ‫المكتبات‬ ‫جمعية‬-‫فرع‬‫الخليج‬‫العربي‬SLA/AGC

4. “ … will be a new standard for
resource description and access,
designed for the digital world.”
Joint steering Committee for the Development of RDA 2007 Strategic plan for RDA
2005-2009, viewed 3 September 2011, http://www.rda-jsc.org/stratplan.html

5. Prepare for RDA‫للقواعد‬ ‫االستعداد‬
• Become familiar with RDA terminology
• Keep up with developments
– RDA-L discussion list
– JSC
– RDA Café Facebook group
– RDA Librarian Facebook group
• Try out RDA Toolkit during the open access period
• Watch for the results of Library of Congress testing
• Ask your ILS vendors how they will adapt their
systems
• Talk with other colleagues

6. Remember ‫للتذكر‬
‫الفهرسة‬ ‫لخبراء‬ ‫الدولي‬ ‫االجتماع‬IMCE
International Meeting of Cataloguing Experts
‫الفهرسة‬ ‫لمبادئ‬ ‫الدولي‬ ‫المؤتمر‬ICCP
International Conference on Cataloging Principles
7‫مبادئ‬(5‫للمداخل‬+2‫الموجز‬ ‫الوصف‬ ‫و‬ ‫المالئم‬ ‫الوصف‬ ‫للوصف‬)
‫إدارته‬ ‫يمكن‬ ‫ال‬ ‫قياسه‬ ‫يمكن‬ ‫ال‬ ‫ما‬
‫تنظيمه‬ ‫يمكن‬ ‫ال‬ ‫وصفه‬ ‫يمكن‬ ‫ال‬ ‫ما‬

7. NEW CHANGES
Changes
FRBR
MARC
Web
toolkit
RDA
AACR

8. Cont.
•‫ج‬.‫هانسون‬J.C.M. Hanson
•‫اختصاص‬ ‫من‬ ‫كثيرا‬ ‫فإن‬ ‫واقعا‬ ‫يصبح‬ ‫دولي‬ ‫تقنين‬ ‫أيما‬‫ي‬
‫كامل‬ ‫بشكل‬ ‫تبنيه‬ ‫يرفضون‬ ‫سوف‬ ‫المكتبات‬
•‫كتر‬Charles A. Cutter
•‫تح‬ ‫أهمية‬ ‫أدرك‬ ‫من‬ ‫أول‬ ‫وهو‬ ‫العظيم‬ ‫المكتبات‬ ‫بمنظم‬ ‫لقب‬‫ديد‬
‫للفهرس‬ ‫منهجية‬ ‫أهداف‬
•‫يقول‬(‫المفه‬ ‫راحة‬ ‫قبل‬ ‫للمستفيد‬ ‫المالئمة‬ ‫وضع‬ ‫يجب‬‫رس‬)
•(‫بجم‬ ‫شخص‬ ‫كل‬ ‫يتبناه‬ ‫أن‬ ‫فهرسة‬ ‫تقنين‬ ‫ألي‬ ‫يمكن‬ ‫ال‬‫يع‬
‫تفاصيله‬)

9. 1998
2009
2010
Functional Requirement for Bibliographic Records
Functional Requirement for
Authority Data
Functional Requirement for Subject Authority Data

10. ‫موقع‬RDA
R
D
A
Bibliographic
‫الببليوجرافي‬
MARC 21
Holdings
‫المقتنيات‬
Authority
‫االستنادي‬
FRBR/FRADWork
‫العمل‬
‫التعبير‬Expression
‫المظهر‬Manifestation
‫المادة‬Item
‫شخص‬Person
‫عائلة‬Family
‫هيئة‬Corporate body
‫المفهوم‬Concept
‫الشيء‬Object
‫الحدث‬Event
‫المكان‬Place

11. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet. French.
LC Control No. : 47023612
LCCN Permalink : http://lccn.loc.gov/47023612
Type of Material : Book (Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.)
Personal Name : Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
.
Main Title : ... Hamlet, traduit par Gide.
Published/Created : [Paris] Gallimard [1946]
Description : 2 p. l., 7-237, [2] p. 17 cm.
CALL NUMBER : PR2779.H3 G5Copy 1
-- Request in : Jefferson or Adams Bldg General or
Area Studies Reading Rms
‫تعبير‬
Expression
‫تعبير‬
Expression
Work ‫العمل‬
‫المادي‬ ‫المظهر‬
Manifestation
Item ‫المفردة‬

13. USER
User-centered, based on concrete user
tasks: FISO
Find ‫إيجاد‬
Identify ‫تحديد‬
Select ‫اختيار‬
Obtain ‫حصول‬
Navigation (Browsing) ‫التصفح‬

14. modeling
• Entities:
– Group 1 Entities – Works, Expressions,
Manifestations, and Items
– Group 2 Entities –
– Persons, Corporate Bodies, Families
– Group 3 Entities – Concept, Place, Event,
Object, plus all Group 1 & 2 Entities

15. Entity Relationships and FRBR
• Inherent relationships:
– work “is realized by” by an expression
– expression “is embodied in” a
manifestation
– manifestation “is exemplified by” an item
–‫مظهر‬ ‫في‬ ‫ويتجسد‬ ‫عنه‬ ‫التعبير‬ ‫خالل‬ ‫من‬ ‫يدرك‬ ‫العمل‬
‫مفردة‬ ‫في‬ ‫يتمثل‬ ‫و‬ ‫مادي‬

16. FRBR Group 1 Entities
is realized through
is embodied in
is exemplified by
Work
Expression
Manifestation
Item
one
many
Physical – Recording of Content
Intellectual/Artistic Content

17. FRBR IN MARC
1XX = person, family, corporate body, work,
expression
130/240 = work, expression
245-260, 490 = manifestation
300 = expression, manifestation
other 3XX = work, expression, manifestation
5XX = work, expression, manifestation, item
700-730 = person, family, corporate body, work,
expression
760-787 = related work, expression,
manifestation
8XX = work, expression, manifestation

18. FRBR Demonstration
Beethoven Example
Search on Author Beethoven
Select Symphonies no. 6
View record and notice FRBR hierarchy
Things to pay attention to now
Notice the 001 and 004 tags
Notice the 999 tag

19. FRBR Related Works and Super Works

20. • “… when the modification of a work
involves a significant degree of
independent … effort, the result is … a
new work.” FRBR, final report
Work to Work Links

21. •A Super (or Supra) Work is a record that
has other works (sub works) related to it
•‫حسين‬ ‫لطه‬ ‫األيام‬[‫رواية‬-‫فيلم‬–‫مسلسل‬-‫مسرحي‬‫ة‬]
•‫البخاري‬ ‫صحيح‬[‫شرح‬–‫دراسة‬–‫نقد‬-‫تحلي‬-‫مقارن‬‫ة‬]
‫الشروح‬–‫الحواشي‬-‫الذيول‬–‫التتمة‬–‫التكملة‬–‫الت‬‫هذيب‬
–‫العسقالني‬ ‫حجر‬ ‫البن‬ ‫التهذيب‬ ‫تهذيب‬
Super Work

22. ‫مثال‬
•‫تهذيب‬‫التهذيب‬‫هو‬‫كتاب‬‫يختص‬‫بعلم‬‫رجال‬‫الحديث‬‫ألفه‬‫الحافظ‬‫ابن‬‫حج‬‫ر‬
،‫العسقالني‬‫ويعد‬‫هذا‬‫الكتاب‬‫مختصر‬‫لكتاب‬‫كبير‬‫في‬‫أسماء‬‫رواة‬‫الحدي‬‫ث‬
،‫وأحوالهم‬‫ألفه‬‫الحافظ‬‫المقدسي‬‫الحنبلي‬‫واسماه‬(‫الكمال‬‫في‬‫أسماء‬‫الرجال‬)
‫وأودع‬‫فيه‬‫أقوال‬‫األئمة‬‫في‬‫رجال‬‫الصحيحين‬‫والسنن‬،‫األربعة‬‫معتمدا‬‫عل‬‫ى‬
‫تواريخ‬‫البخاري‬‫وكتاب‬‫ابن‬‫أبي‬‫حاتم‬(‫الجرح‬‫والتعديل‬)،‫ثم‬‫جاء‬‫الحافظ‬‫ا‬‫لمزي‬
‫فاختصر‬‫كتاب‬‫الحافظ‬‫المقدسي‬‫في‬‫كتاب‬‫جديد‬‫أسماه‬(‫تهذيب‬‫الكمال‬)،‫ثم‬‫جاء‬
‫الحافظ‬‫ابن‬‫حجر‬‫العسقالني‬‫من‬،‫بعد‬‫فاختصره‬‫وزاد‬‫عليه‬‫أشياء‬‫فاتتهم‬‫ا‬‫وهي‬
‫كثيرة‬‫وعقب‬،‫عليهما‬‫وسمى‬‫مختصره‬:(‫تهذيب‬‫التهذيب‬)‫ثم‬‫اختصره‬‫في‬‫كتاب‬
(‫تقريب‬‫التهذيب‬)،‫وبهذا‬‫الكتاب‬‫وكتاب‬‫تهذيب‬‫الكمال‬‫للمزي‬‫يمكن‬‫الق‬‫ول‬‫بأنه‬
‫قد‬‫تم‬‫استيعاب‬‫تراجم‬‫الكتب‬‫الستة‬‫استيعابا‬‫لم‬‫يترك‬‫لمن‬‫يجئ‬‫بع‬‫دهما‬‫زيادة‬
‫لمستزيد‬.

23. ‫أسماء‬ ‫في‬ ‫الكمال‬
‫للحافظ‬ ‫الرجال‬
‫المقدسي‬
‫تهذيب‬
‫الكمال‬
‫للمزي‬
‫التهذيب‬ ‫تهذيب‬
‫حجر‬ ‫البن‬
‫تهذيب‬ ‫إكمال‬
‫الكمال‬
‫لمغلطاي‬
‫تهذيب‬ ‫تذهيب‬
‫للذهبي‬ ‫الكمال‬
‫تقريب‬
‫التهذيب‬
‫حجر‬ ‫البن‬

24. ‫قديمة‬ ‫مطبوعات‬

25. ‫حاشية‬

26. Super Work
The Work
record for the
“Super” Work
of Beau Geste

27. Super Work
The tree
expanded to
show the
“sub works”
of the Super
Work
The Work
record for
the novel
(a sub work
of the Super
Work)

28. Super Work
The tree
expanded to
show the
Expression
and
Manifestations
of the 1939
movie
The
Expression
record for the
1939 movie

29. Super Work
The
Work record
for the 1926
movie
The 1926
movie also has
two other
sub works:
music and
a Program
book

30. FRBR in OPAC

31. FRBR in OPAC

32. RDA in Spain
In this report that surveyed 128 libraries from
different environments, we see that the adoption of
the RDA rules in cataloging remains quite marginal in
Spain : only 4% of the libraries surveyed are
currently using RDA while 14% expect to implement
RDA in the near future (but 83% haven’t taken any
decision regarding the implementation of RDA).
Although we have to mention that 32% of the
university libraries surveyed are expecting to use
RDA.

33. RDA in the Arab Countries
1-‫مصر‬(‫الكونجرس‬ ‫مكتبة‬ ‫مكتب‬–(AUC
2-‫اإلمارات‬(‫الشارقة‬ ‫في‬ ‫األمريكية‬ ‫الجامعة‬AUS)
3-‫العراق‬(‫المقدسة‬ ‫العتبة‬ ‫مكتبة‬)
4-‫لبنان‬(‫الوطنية‬ ‫المكتبة‬)

34. Questionnaire
‫المصادر‬ ‫وإتاحة‬ ‫وصف‬ ‫قواعد‬ ‫تطبيق‬ ‫عن‬ ‫استبيان‬(‫وام‬)‫أو‬
(RDA)‫العربية‬ ‫الدول‬ ‫في‬
‫ال‬ ‫الفهرسة‬ ‫لقواعد‬ ‫حقيقية‬ ‫إضافة‬ ‫هي‬ ‫القواعد‬ ‫تلك‬ ‫أن‬ ‫تظن‬ ‫هل‬‫تي‬
‫تستخدمها؟‬*
‫قواعد‬ ‫تطبيق‬ ‫تواجه‬ ‫قد‬ ‫التي‬ ‫العقبات‬ ‫أهم‬ ‫هي‬ ‫ما‬(‫وام‬)‫مكتب‬ ‫في‬‫تك؟‬
‫عربية‬ ‫نسخة‬ ‫توافر‬ ‫عدم‬
‫ل‬ ‫تصل‬ ‫التي‬ ‫المادية‬ ‫التكلفة‬167$‫سنويا‬ ‫للمستخدم‬
‫التدريب‬
‫البشرية‬ ‫الكفاءات‬
‫الببليوجرافية‬ ‫البيانات‬ ‫لقاعدة‬ ‫التقني‬ ‫التحويل‬
‫نفسها‬ ‫القواعد‬ ‫صعوبة‬
‫عربية؟‬ ‫موضوعات‬ ‫رؤوس‬ ‫قائمة‬ ‫مكتبتك‬ ‫تستخدم‬ ‫هل‬

35. RDA in UAE
AUS ‫الشارقة‬ ‫في‬ ‫األمريكية‬ ‫الجامعة‬ ‫تجربة‬
Scott Jonathan Carlson
Cataloging & Metadata Librarian
American University of Sharjah, UAE
In the late spring of 2012, the American University
of Sharjah (AUS) Library’s Technical Services
department began assessing RDA’s expected
impact on the library’s catalog and internal workflow.
Of great interest to the department was:

36. AUS Experiences
1- the ease of modifying our integrated library system to accept new
RDA records
2- the existence of RDA records in our system
3- whether existing AACR2 records would need to be re-cataloged to
match RDA conventions
4- the usefulness of making Content, Media and Carrier fields
viewable to our user community
5- RDA's impact on the library’s original cataloging of Arabic-
language materials

37. Cont.
1- Updating our ILS
The AUS Library employs Millennium, the integrated library system
(ILS) by Innovative Interfaces, Inc.
Innovative offers its subscribers a free, three-week service
commitment to review a library’s system configuration for RDA
specifications
internally validating the MARC rules for all new RDA fields
The loss of our local modifications proved to be too much of a risk, and
it was decided we would undertake the responsibility of updating our
ILS for RDA ourselves.

38. Cont.
2- Compatibility with Existing Records
the AUS Library has 192,000 print and electronic
items in its collection, with over 140,000 holdings
records stored in OCLC
Roughly 90 percent of the library’s records for
English materials are vendor-supplied, with the
remaining 10 percent reasonably split between copy-
cataloging and original cataloging.
Because of this reliance upon vendor records, the
Technical Services department reached out to its
primary suppliers, Coutts and Yankee Book Peddler
(YBP), in Fall of 2012 to request more information
about their plans for distributing RDA cataloging

39. 3- Visualization in the OPAC
GMD
4- Arabic Cataloging ; 880 fields
English relator terms mixed with Arabic language headings
translator ،‫المتولي‬ ‫السيد‬ ،‫حسن‬
RDA instructions (RDA 0.11.1) "designed for use in an international
context
Agencies creating data for use in a different language or script
context may modify such instructions to reflect their own language
or script preferences and replace the English-language terms
specified in RDA with terms appropriate for use in their context.
Authorized translations of RDA will do likewise.
RDA 0.11.2.

40. AUS Library Catalog

41. AUS Library Catalog

42. AUS Library Catalog

43. AUS Library Catalog

44. RDA in AUE
American University in the Emirates
Problems:
1- ILS Symphony
2- Staff
3- Small Library
4- Training
5- Technical Services

45. AUE Experiments

46. RDA in UAE University Library

47. 336-337-338

48. RDA in Zayed University

49. Zayed University Library

50. MARC and RDA Abu Dhabi Library, UAE

51. Juma Al Majid Center
History
1988
1991
1993
Main Library
350.000 titles in 500.000 item
Private Libraries
80
Serials
‫يقارب‬ ‫ما‬ ‫على‬ ‫المكتبة‬ ‫وتشتمل‬7000‫من‬ ‫أكثر‬ ‫في‬ ‫متاحة‬ ‫دورية‬ ‫عنوان‬660000
Theses & Dissertations
‫من‬ ‫يقارب‬ ‫ما‬ ‫المكتبة‬ ‫وتضم‬11000‫عن‬ ‫يزيد‬ ‫وما‬ ،‫أصلية‬ ‫جامعية‬ ‫رسالة‬20000‫على‬ ‫مصورة‬ ،‫جامعية‬ ‫رسالة‬
‫متعددة‬ ‫وسائط‬ ‫شكل‬(،‫مكروفيلم‬ ،‫مكروفيش‬ cd ) ‫اإلنسانية‬ ‫العلوم‬ ‫موضوعات‬ ‫مختلف‬ ‫تتناول‬-

52. ‫العربية‬ ‫و‬ ‫اإلسالمية‬ ‫الدراسات‬ ‫وكلية‬ ‫الماجد‬ ‫جمعة‬ ‫مركز‬
‫بدبي‬
1-‫المعلومات‬ ‫نظام‬Al Majid System
2-‫والتصنيف‬ ‫الفهرسة‬Cataloguing Standards
3-‫اإلتاحة‬ ‫و‬ ‫الحفظ‬Ownership & Accessibility
4-‫المواد‬ ‫طبيعة‬Collections
5-‫المعرفة‬ ‫و‬ ‫التدريب‬Training & Knowledge
6-‫مارك‬MARC
7-‫المعلومات‬ ‫تكنولوجيا‬ ‫وحدة‬IT

53. New Mind, New World

55. Linked Data & RDA
On July 16, 2012, Zepheira co-founder and President
Eric Miller appeared at a BIBFRAME Update Forum, held
at the Library of Congress. When asked about the future
framework and how it would connect with RDA, he
replied: "Does Linked Data need RDA? No. I mean there
are a lot of different communities that are using Linked
Data right now that have never heard of RDA. […] We're
creating a pretty high barrier for that outside community
to start connecting into."

56. Useful Links
https://www.facebook.com/groups/RDA.Librarian/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/RDACafe/
rda-l@listserv

57. ‫أخيرا‬
‫قال‬‫القاضي‬‫الفاضل‬‫أستاذ‬‫العلماء‬‫البلغاء‬”‫عبد‬‫الرحيم‬‫البيسان‬‫ي‬“‫وهو‬
‫يعتذر‬‫إلي‬‫العماد‬‫األصفهاني‬‫عن‬‫كالم‬‫استدركه‬‫عليه‬:"‫إنه‬‫قد‬‫وقع‬‫لي‬
‫شيء‬‫وما‬‫أدري‬‫أوقع‬‫لك‬‫أم‬‫ال‬‫؟‬‫وها‬‫أنا‬‫أخبرك‬‫به‬‫وذلك‬‫إني‬‫رأيت‬‫أنه‬‫ال‬
‫يكتب‬‫أحد‬‫كتابا‬‫في‬‫يومه‬‫إال‬‫قال‬‫في‬‫ه‬‫د‬َ‫غ‬:‫لو‬َ‫ير‬َّ‫غ‬‫ه‬‫ذا‬‫لكان‬‫أحسن‬‫ولو‬
‫زيد‬‫هذا‬‫لكان‬‫سن‬َ‫ح‬‫ست‬‫ي‬‫ولو‬‫َّم‬‫د‬‫ق‬‫هذا‬‫لكان‬‫أفضل‬‫ولو‬‫ك‬‫ر‬‫ت‬‫هذا‬‫لكان‬‫أجمل‬.
‫وهذا‬‫أعظم‬‫العبر‬‫وهو‬‫دليل‬‫على‬‫استيالء‬‫النقص‬‫على‬‫جملة‬‫البشر‬"

58. www.facebook.com/tharwat.alolaimi
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