Resource Description and Access http:www'collectionscanada'cajscrda'html Deirdre Kiorgaard Standards

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Resource Description and Access
http//www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/rda.html
Deirdre KiorgaardStandards Australia Seminar
August 2007
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Outline

• Where does RDA fit?
• What will RDA look like?
• Who is developing RDA?
• When will RDA be ready?
• How to find out more?

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Where does RDA fit?

Content
Description ISBD, AACR RDA, CCO, RAD
Classification DDC, LCC, UDC, MOYS Subject
description LCSH, PRECIS, thesauri
Identifiers ISBN, ISSN, BICI, PIs
Encoding/Exchange/Interoperability
MARC21, UNIMARC, MODS, METS, MARCXML Dublin
Core, AGLS, EAD, TEI ONIX, OAI, RDF, XML
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Towards RDA

• AACR
• 1967 1st ed.
• 1978 2nd ed.
• 1988 Rev.
• 1998 Rev.
• 2002 Rev.
• 2003-5 Updates

RDA 1997 Conference 2003 AACR3 draft 2005 Move
to RDA 2009 RDA release
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Strategic PlanGOALS FOR RDA

• RDA as a standard
• Cover all types of resources and
• all types of content
• Be usable outside the library community
• RDA data
• Support user tasks
• Be compatible with existing library catalogues
• Independent of encoding formats
• http//www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/stratplan.html
  

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Conceptual models and principles
Conceptual models FRBR http//www.ifla.org/VII/s
13/frbr/frbr.pdf FRAD http//www.ifla.org/VII/d4/F
RANAR-ConceptualModel-2ndReview.pdf
International Cataloguing Principles
http//www.loc.gov/loc/ifla/imeicc/pdf/statement-d
raft3_apr06cleancopy.pdf
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Overall RDA Structure
General Introduction Part A Description Part
B Access Point Control Part C Elements that
are data about data Appendices including
Record syntaxes for descriptive data Record
syntaxes for access point control
data Glossary Index
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RDA Part A

• Part A Description
• General guidelines on resource description
• Resource identification (FRBR Identify)
• Carrier (FRBR Select)
• Content (FRBR Select)
• Acquisition access information (FRBR Obtain)
• Persons, families, and corporate bodies
  associated with a resource (Navigate)7. Related
  resources (Navigate)

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RDA Parts B-C
Part B Access Point Control (FRAD Find
Identify Contextualize Justify) Introduction
to part B 8. General guidelines on access
point control 9-13. Access points
for persons families corporate
bodies places works, expressions,
etc.14. Other information used in access point
control Part C ? Elements that are data about
data

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RDA and libraries

• Principles-based and easy to use
• RDA Online a web product
• Coverage of a broader range of resources
• Treatment of online resources
• (online resource as a carrier type improved
  technical description introduction of persistent
  identifiers and URLS)

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RDA and other resource description communities (1)

• Resource categorisations
• Media Type (e.g. computer, video)
• Carrier type (e.g. online resource, audio disc)
• Content type (e.g. notated music, moving image)

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RDA and other resource description communities (2)

• Designations of role (e.g. author, director,
  photographer)
• Relationships from FRBR Group 2 to FRBR Group 1
• Designations of relationships (e.g. derivative,
  sequential, whole-part)
• Relationships between FRBR Group 1 entities

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Use in the web environment (1)

• Dublin Core/Semantic web
• RDA Element Vocabulary
• RDA DC Application Profile
• RDA Value Vocabularies
• using RDF/RDFS/SKOS
• Participants Robina Clayphan, Mikael Nillson,
  Alistair Miles, Tom Delsey, Gordon Dunsire,
  Barbara Tillett, Diane Hillmann, Tom Baker, Andy
  Powell
• http//www.bl.uk/services/bibliographic/meeting.ht
  ml

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Use in the web environment (2)

• Benefits of collaboration
• For the library community
• For the DCMI (Dublin Core) community
• For the semantic web community

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Whos developing RDA?
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RDA timeline

• March-June 2007 Review of revised chapter 3
• July-Sept. 2007 Review of revised chapters 6-7
  
• Dec. 07-Mar. 2008 Review of part B
• July-Sept. 2008 Review of complete draft of RDA
  
• Dec. 2008 RDA text finalised
• March 2009 Release of RDA
• June 2009 Implementation

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RDA website http//www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/r
da.html
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• Thank you
• Questions