ncompass live: rda: are we there yet?
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RDA: Are We There Yet?
Emily Dust Nimsakont • Nebraska Library Commission
NCompass Live • September 12, 2012
#NCompLive @enimsakont
Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stmpjmpr/4922756740/
• Work started on AACR3
2003
• Focus changed to RDA
2005• RDA
published
2010
• RDA tested by national libraries
2010-2011
The Story So Far…
Recommendations of Testers
• Rewrite the RDA instructions in clear, unambiguous, plain English. • Define process for updating RDA in the online environment. • Improve functionality of the RDA Toolkit. • Develop full RDA record examples in MARC and other encoding
schemas. • Announce completion of the Registered RDA Element Sets and
Vocabularies. • Demonstrate credible progress towards a replacement for MARC. • Ensure and facilitate community involvement. • Lead and coordinate RDA training. • Solicit demonstrations of prototype input and discovery systems
that use the RDA element set (including relationships).
March 31, 2013
Implementation Date
What will be different right away?
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
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
Lack of Abbreviations
300 _ _ $a 253 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 28 cm.
NOT
300 _ _ $a 253 p. : $b ill. ; $c 28 cm.
Lack of Latin Abbreviations
264 _1 $a [Place of publication not identified] : $b[publisher not identified], $c
1967.
NOT
260 _ _ $a [S.l. : $b s.n.], $c 1967.
Lack of Latin Abbreviations
245 10 $a Micromagentic study of magnetoeleastic materials
246 1_ $iTitle should read: $a Micromagnetic study of magnetoeleastic
materials
NOT
245 10 $a Micromagentic [sic] study of magnetoeleastic materials
No Rule of Three in Statement of Responsibility
… / $c by Nancy Drew, George Fayne, Bess Marvin, and Ned Nickerson.
OR
… / $c by Nancy Drew *and three others+.
NOT
… / $c by Nancy Drew … *et al.+.
More Transcription - “Take What You See”
250 _ _ $aThird edition
NOT
250 _ _ $a 3rd ed.
(if that is how it appears on the item)
More Transcription - “Take What You See”
/ $c forward by Dr. John Smith.
NOT
/ $ c forward by John Smith.
(if that is how it appears on the item)
More Transcription - “Take What You See”
264 _1 $a Chicago, IL
NOT
260 _ _ $a Chicago, Ill.
(if that is how it appears on the item)
Content Type, Media Type and Carrier Type
336 _ _ $a two-dimensional moving image $2 rdacontent337 _ _ $a video $2 rdamedia
338 _ _ $a videodisc $2 rda carrier
NOT
245 00 $aAvatar $h [videorecording]
Some Changes to Headings
Smith, John, approximately 1837-1896
NOT
Smith, John, ca. 1837-1896
Some Changes to Headings
Bible. Corinthians.
NOT
Bible. N.T. Corinthians.
Related Works
700 1_ $i Sequel to: $a Mitchell, Margaret, $d 1900-1949. $t Gone with the wind.
NOT
500 _ _ $a Sequel to Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the wind.
Relationship Designators
100 1_ $a Smith, John, $e author.
700 1_ $a Eastwood, Clint, $d 1930- $e film producer, $e film director, $e actor.
New MARC Fields
• 336, 337, 338• Content type, media type, carrier type
336 _ _ $a text $2 rdacontent337 _ _ $a unmediated $2 rdamedia338 _ _ $a volume $2 rdacarrier
336 _ _ $a two-dimensional moving image $2 rdacontent337 _ _ $a computer $2 rdamedia337 _ _ $a video $2 rdamedia338 _ _ $a online resource $2 rdacarrier
New MARC Fields
• 264
• Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture and Copyright Statements
• First indicator:– Sequence of statements
# - Not applicable/No information provided/Earliest2 - Intervening3 - Current/latest
New MARC Fields
• 264• Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufactur
e and Copyright Statements
• Second indicator:– Function of entity
0 - Production1 - Publication2 - Distribution3 - Manufacture4 - Copyright notice date
New MARC Fields
• 040 $e = rda
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
What could be different later?
(which is to say, no, we’re not there yet…)
OLAC Moving Image Discovery Interface
http://blazing-sunset-24.heroku.com/
Scherzo, Indiana Universityhttp://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/scherzo/
AustLit
http://www.austlit.edu.au/subscribe/samples.xml
New Search Options
Open Library as an Examplehttp://www.openlibrary.org
Richer Authority Records
Jane AustenWomen authorsFrom EnglandWrote in 1800s
Semantic Web/Linked Data
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
resource
resource
resource
resource
resourcelinks to
links to
links to
links to
data links to
links to
links to
links to
data data
data
data
datadata
data
data
data
data
data
HTML
<h1>This is a heading.</h1>
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>
RDF/XML
<rdf:Descriptionrdf:about="http://www.recshop.fake/cd/Empire Burlesque"><cd:artist>Bob Dylan</cd:artist><cd:country>USA</cd:country><cd:company>Columbia</cd:company><cd:price>10.90</cd:price><cd:year>1985</cd:year>
</rdf:Description> http://www.w3schools.com/rdf/rdf_example.asp
Relationships are key
Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brenda-starr/3509344100/
We are used to connecting pieces of information based on their context.
Title: A Christmas Carol
Author: Charles Dickens
Linked Data makes the relationships explicit.
subject object
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
has author
predicate
<rdf:Descriptionrdf:about="http://www.recshop.fake/cd/Empire Burlesque"><cd:artist>Bob Dylan</cd:artist><cd:country>USA</cd:country><cd:company>Columbia</cd:company><cd:price>10.90</cd:price><cd:year>1985</cd:year>
</rdf:Description> http://www.w3schools.com/rdf/rdf_example.asp
Civil War Data 150
http://www.civilwardata150.net
Tips for Implementation
Decide When You Will Implement
• Be prepared to deal with RDA records in copy cataloging
Talk to Your ILS Vendor
• How to display and index new fields
Vendor Interviews on the RDA Toolkit Website
http://www.rdatoolkit.org/blog/category/29
Think about Authority Control
• If you outsource this, talk to your vendor
• If not, make decisions about what you will do
Plan for Training
• Who?
• How?
• When?
Resources
ALCTS RDA Webinars: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1AAFB573158DC4A1&feature=plcp
Changes from AACR2 to RDA: http://faculty.washington.edu/aschiff/
Library of Congress RDA site: http://www.loc.gov/aba/rda/
NCSU RDA Test Materials: https://staff.lib.ncsu.edu/confluence/display/MNC/RDA
Thank you!
Emily Dust Nimsakont
Cataloging Librarian
Nebraska Library Commission
800-307-2665
@enimsakont