Report on CEAL RDA Review

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Report on CEAL RDA Review

• Shi Deng (sdeng_at_ucsd.edu)
• UCSD Libraries

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Outline

• RDA Review Background information
• CEAL RDA Review Subcommittee activities
• CEAL comments submitted to ALA
• Members of the CEAL RDA Review Subcommittee

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RDA Review Background Information

• All the information regarding RDA is available
  at http//www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/rda.html
• Dec. 2004-Mar. 2005, Draft of AACR3 Part I
  reviewed by JSC constituencies.
• Apr. 2005, JSC decide to give a new working
  title RDA Resource Description and Access
• Dec. 2005, JSC made RDA available for public
  review

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RDA Timeline

• Oct. 2005-April. 2006 Completion of draft of
  part I, and constituency review
• May 2006-Sept. 2006 Completion of draft of part
  II, and constituency review
• Oct. 2006-Apr. 2007 Completion of draft of part
  III, and constituency review
• May 2007-Sept. 2007 Completion of General
  Introduction, Appendices, and Glossary
• 2008 Publication

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CCAAM RDA Task Force

• Jul.-Oct. 2005, Task force was established with
  Hideyuki Morimoto as chair
• 12 members representing Africa, East Asia, Middle
  East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia regions.
• Members representing East Asia region also come
  from CEAL
• Hideyuki Morimoto (Chair)
• Sarah Elman
• Taemin Park
• Keiko Suzuki (CCAAM liaison to CCDA)

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CEAL Activities

• Nov. 14, 2005, CEAL Exec. Board was informed that
  the JSC intends to make the Drafts of RDA
  publicly available on its Web site.
• Dec. 5, Jennifer Bower, ALA rep. to JSC announced
  and confirmed that draft of RDA Part I will be
  available for comments from outside the
  constituencies.
• Dec. 7, Mary Lin, Chair of CTP, informed CEAL
  Exec. Board that she will work with CTP members
  to send comments to JSC on behalf of CEAL. Shi
  Deng agreed to be the coordinator.
• Dec. 12, RDA Part I draft made available for
  comments, and deadline was Feb. 7, 2006.

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CEAL RDA Activities (contd)

• Dec. 12 Jan. 20, Shi worked with CTP members on
  getting input on CEAL RDA review guideline,
  process, and recruitment of the review committee
  members.
• Jan. 5, Shi sent CEAL RDA review guidelines to
  CEAL members via Eastlib.
• Feb. 7, the Committee submitted comments to ALA
  on behalf of CEAL.
• Feb. 16, CEAL was invited to comment on LC
  proposal on internationalization of RDA Part I,
  because of the extensive comments that CEAL made
  on Feb. 7.
• Mar. 3, the Committee submitted comments to ALA
  regarding LC proposal.

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CEAL RDA Review Guidelines

• While it is recognized that not everyone who care
  to comment would have time to review each draft
  Part in its entirety, many rules are related to
  each other (although some rules stand by
  themselves), so that reviewing only of some
  sections within each part, without regard to
  other sections, may not always result in coherent
  and relevant comments
• RDA is not proposed as a complete paradigm shift
  but as improvement, however drastic it might be,
  over AACR2 with adoption of recent models, such
  as FRBR, so that comments should be based on full
  understanding of (although not necessarily
  agreement with) past and current cataloging rules
  and practices in North America
• Some comments from CEAL members may exhibit
  marked disagreement from each other on some
  proposed rules within each draft RDA Part and
• Because of these three factors, CEAL will analyze
  and synthesize to the best of its ability
  comments from CEAL members, which may result in
  some comments conscientiously altered or even
  omitted in a finalized CEAL response for
  submission to CCDA.

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Highlights of CEAL Comments on RDA Part I drafts

• 3 major issues addressed
• Does not adequately address transcription of
  non-roman languages and scripts in transliterated
  form (Rule 1.5, etc.)
• Does not clarify the confusion of transcription
  and transliteration of numerals in scripts (AACR2
  C.5. Oriental numerals / RDA rule 1.6.2)
• Lack examples in CJK and other non-roman
  languages and scripts

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Highlights of CEAL Comments on RDA Part I drafts
(contd)

• Other issues addressed
• Concern about effectiveness of reviewing drafts
  when examples are behind the schedule
• Concerns about using terms oriental and
  vernacular (RDA 1.6.2.3.)
• Inadequate instruction in transcribing omitted or
  unreadable character/word (RDA 1.6.)

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Highlights of CEAL Comments on RDA Part I drafts
(contd)

• Other issues addressed
• Lack instruction on transcribing multiple
  separated edition statements (RDA 2.5.1.)
• Inadequate instruction/option in cataloging
  Chinese early printed resources
• Lack definition or scope on early print
• Lack option of using the Guidelines to catalogue
  Chinese Early Printed Resources.

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Two Proposals on numerals in Scripts (RDA 1.6.2.
1.6.2.3)

• Proposal 1 Incorporate current practice of AACR2
  C.5, LCRI C.5, and CJK examples of AACR2 and
  LCRIs into one place with instructions on
  transcription and transliteration of numerals in
  scripts explicitly with distinction.
• Proposal 2 Opposite current practice transcribe
  in the form in which they appear on the source of
  information (pending on getting consensus
  response from CEAL community)
• Note need to keep in mind on dealing with
  numerals in scripts within headings in Part III

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Examples of These Two Proposals

• Proposal 1
• Original script??????????
• Transliteration 1989 shui mo hua chuang xin zhan
  
• Variant access Yi jiu ba jiu shui mo hua chuang
  xin zhan
• Original scripts ???????
• Transliteration Taiwan di 1 yin hang shi
• Variant access Taiwan di yi yin hang shi

• Proposal 2
• Original script??????????
• Transliteration Yi jiu ba jiu shui mo hua chuang
  xin zhan
• Variant access 1989 shui mo hua chuang xin zhan
• Original scripts ???????
• Transliteration Taiwan di yi yin hang shi
• Variant access Taiwan di 1 yin hang shi

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LC Proposal on RDA Part I Internationalization

• Goal of proposal
• To make RDA open to use by any community with a
  context other than English language, other than
  Latin script, other than Western-style arabic
  numerals, and/or other than Gregorian/Julian
  calendar.
• Four aspects in RDA were reviewed
• English language. Instruction 0.1.8. (no change)
• Language and script of the description.
  Instruction 1.5. and related rules. (proposed
  revision)
• Numerals/dates. Instructions 1.6.2,
  1.6.2.1-1.6.2.3 and related rules. (proposed
  revision)
• Calendar. Instructions 1.6. and 2.6.0.3, 2.9.0.3
  (proposed revision)

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Proposed revisions of 1.5

• Revise the optional rule as add or substitute
  the data elements in a transliterated form.
• Replace interpolations with plain English word
  adding and instruction on supplying missing
  data, with a new optional rule for recording
  additions in the language and scripts preferred
  by the agency preparing the description
• remove fourth bullet completely
• suggest using transliteration in place of
  romanization

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Proposed revisions of 1.6.2.

• Rule title change to Numbers expressed as words
  and numerals
• Remove edition statement and statement
  relating to a named revision of an edition from
  2nd bullet to the 1st one as any statement
  relating to edition
• Add optional rule under 2nd bullet add or
  substitute numerals in the script preferred by
  the agency preparing the description

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Proposed revisions of 1.6.2.1-1.6.2.2

• 1.6.2.1 Roman numerals and 1.6.2.2 Numbers
  expressed as words
• Both have changes by adding Western-style
  before arabic numerals
• Both add optional rule that read add or
  substitute numerals in the script preferred by
  the agency preparing the description.

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Proposed revisions of 1.6.2.3

• Rule title change to Script of numerals
• New instruction being added Transcribe numerals
  in the script in which they appear on the source
  of information.
• Modify the original instruction to an optional
  rule that would read when describing resources
  that present numerals in a script not used by the
  agency preparing the description, add or
  substitute the numerals in the script preferred
  by the agency preparing the description
• Remove terms oriental and vernacular

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Highlights of CEAL comments on LC Proposal

• Support LC Proposal with regard to
  internationalization
• Concerns with potential inconsistent practice as
  consequence of flexibility of RDA optional rules
• Suggest LC issue new RIs/Cataloging Decision to
  set direction in this regard
• Suggest add CJK and other non-roman examples

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CEAL RDA Review Subcommittee

• Members
• Ai-lin Yang (UC Berkeley)
• Cathy (Chwang Chia) Yang (LC)
• Daphne Wang (U. Oregon)
• Dawn Lawson (NYU)
• Edwin Yu (U. Maryland CJKat)
• Evelyn Kuo (UC Berkeley)
• Iping K. Wei (Princeton)
• Wen-Ling D. Liu (Indiana)
• Nanako Kodaira (Duke)   
• Shi Deng (UCSD, Coordinator)
• Thomas  Tsai (LC)
• Wayne Richter (W. Washington)
• Young-ki Lee (LC)

• Advisors
• Abraham J. Yu (UC Irvine, CEAL president)
• Beatrice Chang Ohta (LC)
• Hideyuki Morimoto (Columbia, Chair, ALA/CCAAM
  RDA Task Force)
• Philip A Melzer (LC, CEAL president-elect)
• Sarah S. Elman (Yale, ALA/CCAAM RDA Task Force)
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• Ex-Officio
• Mary Lin (Wisconsin-Madison, Chair, CTP)
• Comments Consolidation
• Dawn Lawson
• Nanako Kodaira
• Shi Deng

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More and detailed information about CEAL RDA
Review

• Available at CEAL Committee on Technical
  Processing
• http//cealctp.lib.uci.edu/

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Please join the shared effort in CEAL Review of
RDA Drafts

• Thank You!