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R A N I A O S M A N , M L I S - U C L
H E A D O F K N O W L E D G E M A N A G E M E N T & O R G A N I Z A T I O N U N I T
B I B L I O T H E C A A L E X A N D R I N A
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ARE WE READY FOR BIBFRAME?THE FUTURE OF THE NEW MODEL IN THE ARAB REGION
BACKGROUND
"Cataloguing is one of the oldest information organization activities andhas a history that is over 2000 years old. However, the history of modern-day approaches to cataloguing by using standard principles and practicesis only a few hundred years old, and the most recent development tookplace only over the past few years“(G. Chowdhury and Sudatta Chowdhury 29).
Introduction
MARC 21
The MARC standard for exchanging data has been used by libraries for more than 30 years.
In the early 60s, the library of Congress developed the first machine-readable cataloging project and they called the product (MARC),
then the British library collaborated with the library of Congress and they work on developing the project and as a result MARC was born.
The standard was created at the beginning to serve as the basis for the presentation and exchange of bibliographic data
Limitations of MARC 21
The main problem with MARC is that the cataloguing community is closely tiedto MARC tags and MARC was always mixed up with cataloguing descriptiverules, therefore it ended up a as a carrier and descriptive schema.
Limitations of MARC 21 (contd.)
MARC is used exclusively by libraries which keep the library community isolated from the other communities and people cannot log to our data. Moreover, every statement in MARC depends mainly on the entire record for context and meaning as none of the statement of MARC record including the fields and subfields can stand alone
Resource Description & Access (RDA)
RDA Development
Year Progress
2005 AACR3 developed to be RDA
2006-2007 The Joint Steering committee reviews the first draft of RDA
2009 FRBR
22nd June 2010 Public Release to RDA
1st July 2010 – Dec. 2010 Trainings and Testing Phase
Jan. – March Analysis and Evaluation of the Implementation Tests
June 2011 RDA announcement and Decision to postpone implementation to 2013
31st March 2013, RDA Day one official implementation in the Library of Congress (LC)
2013-2015 RDA Updates Continued
RDA Challenges
FRBR remains a theoreticalnotation of the bibliographicuniverse that is still a theoreticalthat is still neither concrete noravailable.
RDA is expensive to beimplemented and requiredifficult trainings that wouldmake it so hard for many Arablibraries to adopt it to theircollection.
Interest of RDA in the Arab Region
Year Progress
1 April 2013 1st Conference on RDA in the Arab region organized by Cybrarian
2013 – 2014
Arab National Libraries start adopting RDA
June 2013, Lebanese National Library start implementation
February 2014, Qatar National Library started cataloguing usingRDA
AUC and Library of Congress office in Egypt
2014
More RDA Workshops in the Arab region
March 2014, workshop organized by (AFLI) in Qatar, Doha
August 2014, round table organized by Library experts in AlexandriaLibrary, Egypt
2014 – 2015More Arab Libraries adopting RDA in United Arab Emirates and Iraq(Atabah Library)
April 2015 Workshop on RDA in Cairo University, Egypt
Limitations of MARC for RDA
Difficult to represent relationships
Moving Away from MARC 21
“Most [testers] felt any benefits of RDA would be largely unrealized in a MARCenvironment. MARC may hinder the separation of elements and ability to useURIs in a linked data environment.”
U.S. National Libraries RDA Test Report, p. 8. http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/rda/source/rdatesting-finalreport-20june2011.pdf
“MARC has served us wellfor a long time and got usinto the computer age, nowwe need something to moveus, our data and our cultureinto the web page”
Both QNL (Qatar NationalLibrary) & (LNL) LebaneseNational Library were thefirst national librariesadopted RDA, suggestedto move away from MARC
Bibliographic Framework (BIBFRAME)
How Can We Get Involved?
Technologies
Semantic Web Linked Data
Semantic Web
The Semantic Web is a Web of data
Vision of The Semantic Web
W3C Semantic Web FAQ: http://www.w3.org/RDF/FAQ
Extends principles of the Web from documents to data.
Provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and
reused across application, enterprise, and community
boundaries.
Semantic Web & CATALOGUING
For describing the content and content relationships available at a particular Web site, page, or digital library
Advantages of Linked Data
Tim Berners-Lee, Design Issues: Linked Data http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData
Resource Description Framework (RDF)
A data model for describing things
RDF Model
A subject, predicate, and object, which correspond to a resource (subject), a property (predicate), and a
property value (object)
Subject Predicate Object
BIBFRAME MODEL
Difficulties with BIBFRAME in the Arab region
The lists of terms that are associated with the BIBFRAME categories need to be translated into
equivalent Arabic terms
RDA Events BIBFRAME Events
Year Event
1 April 20131st Conference on RDA in the Arab region
organized by Cybrarian
2013 – 2014
Arab National Libraries start adopting RDA
June 2013, Lebanese National Library start
implementation
February 2014, Qatar National Library
started cataloguing using RDA
AUC and Library of Congress office in Egypt
2014
More RDA Workshops in the Arab region
March 2014, workshop organized by (AFLI)
in Qatar, Doha
August 2014, round table organized by
Library experts in Alexandria Library, Egypt
2014 – 2015More Arab Libraries adopting RDA in United
Arab Emirates and Iraq (Atabah Library)
April 2015Workshop on RDA in Cairo University,
Egypt
Year Event
Oct. 2014Workshop on BIBFRME in the Arab region
organized by (AFLI) in Tunisia
Dec. 2014Workshop on BIBFRAME in Cairo
University, Egypt
In Sep. 2015, the 1st conference on BIBFRAME organized by Cybrarians
Arab Interest in New Standards
Implementation Fears
Things that concern most about BIBFRAME implementation are:
ILS Issues
Where to Start?
Small Libraries and small budgets
Librarians fear this change
Catalogs interface
Trainings Costs
Language Barrier
Libraries Registered for BIBFRAME Test
Year Organization's Name
2014
Library of Congress
Colorado College
German National Library
George Washington University
Princeton University Library
Stanford University
National Library of Music
Cornell University Library
Columbia University Libraries
Biblioteca Nacional de Cuba “José Martí” (BNJM)
2015
University College London Department of
Information Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library
26th March 2015, Library of Alexandria was added to register as the 1st Arab Library to join the Experiment
MARC Record
BIBFRAME
Recommendation
Providing special programs introducing the new standards (RDA and BIBFRAME) at the library schools
Consultancy group consisting of Arab professional catalogers and system librarians
(The group could work under the umbrella of a professional association like AFLI (Arab Federation for Libraries and Information) or MELA (Middle East Library Association) More libraries should register in the implementation Translating the new vocabularies into Arabic
Next Steps for You?
ILS Issues – backend and public displays Trainings needs Develop training materials depending on trusted sources learn all about the new model then put it to the test – Do not wait! Within your institution or across a cooperative, Cooperate! Decide upon your library status: Are you ready to adopt (or notadopt!)
Implementation Requirements In The Arab Region
users
librarians
Integrated Library System
System librarians
Catalogues
FUTURE
Future of Cataloguing Community
Technical services budgets and staffing are declining. The newcataloguing instructions and standards like (BIBFRAME, RDA, andFRBR) are not simpler and do not promise greater cataloguingefficiencies.
Conclusion
All what the catalogers should worry about in the time being is mapping MARCC 21 to BIBFRAME regardless of the descriptive tool that is used and the impact on
the user interface.
We would like not to be closely tied to any other scheme.Catalogers are seeing RDA and they do not have to worry withwhat’s happening with BIBFRAME.
All what the catalogers should worry about in the time being ismapping MARC 21 to BIBFRAME regardless of the descriptivetool that is used and the impact on the user interface.
Useful Resources on BIBFRAME
Homepage: http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition/
Demos, vocabularies, and code: http://bibframe.org/
Listserv: [email protected]
Presentations from ALA Midwinter, January 2013:
http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition/presentations/index.html
Kroegar, Angela. "The road to BIBFRAME: The Evolution of the Idea of Bibliographic Transition into Post-MARC Future". Cataloguing and Classification Quarterly 51.8 (2013): 873-890. Web. 10 Aug. 2015.
Nelson, Jeremy and Lorimer, Nancy.“Experimenting with BIBFRAME: Reports from Early Adopters”. NISO. 8 April. 2015. presentation.
EL-Nasharty, Moamen. "The BIBFRAME Initiative in OPACs" AFLI Workshop. Hammamet, Tunisia 26-27 Oct. 2014. Workshop presentation.