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RDA Toolkit Demonstration
Overview
• Accessing the Toolkit• Navigating the Toolkit• Understanding the functionality of the Toolkit• Searching the Toolkit• Getting help and providing feedback
NOT:• Structure of RDA• How to catalogue using RDA
Access to the Toolkit
• To subscribe: www.rdatoolkit.org/subscribe
• Also available through EPIC as add-on to subscription: http://www.epic.org.nz/about-epic/subscription-options
– Cheaper than separate subscription– For cost, email [email protected]
Access to the Toolkit
• Access via Cataloger’s desktop– Only available if you already subscribe to
RDA– Full functionality of Toolkit not available
• Print version of RDA: http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/
title.php?id=7494&category_code=910
Direct access to Toolkit: http://access.rdatoolkit.org/
RDA Toolkit website: http://www.rdatoolkit.org/
RDA Home pageSubscriber
User menu
Document paneContents pane
Login boxes
Search icons
Tabs
RDA Tab
• Full text of RDA• Table of Contents
– 10 sections– 37 chapters
• Section 1 contains chapters 1-4
• Section 2 contains chapters 5-7
• Section 3 contains chapters 8-11
and so on …
• Appendices A-L– Capitalisation– Abbreviations– Relationship
designatorsetc.
• Glossary• Index• RDA update
history
RDA Tab
Contents pane:Expanding and
contracting
• Click + to expand • Click - to contract
For example, click + here, then here …
…then select an instruction …
Display features
User menuDocument menu
Note: Instructions start with chapter no., not section no.
User menu
• RDA Quick Search “Go”
• Advanced Search
• Login to personal profile
• Create personal profile• Email password for
personal profile• Logout
• Support
Document menu
• Previous hit (Search)
• Next hit (Search)
• Synch TOC
• Return to results
• View text
• Bookmarks
Menu icons
Menu icons
Link to text of RDA
Next section of RDA
Core element of RDA
Link to external website
Link to Library of Congress-Program for Cooperative Cataloging policy statement
Previous section of RDA
Instruction from Basic version of RDA
Display featuresPage numbers
Glossary link
Status of element
Hypertext link to another instruction
Display features
Policy statement
Explanatory textExample
Buff colour for examples
Options & Alternatives
Print icon
Whole chapter! Select relevant pages to print
Synch TOC icon
Manually synchronises Table of Contents with Document Pane
Module 3Exercise 1
Tools tab
Document pane shows Home pageDifferent TOC
Element Set View• Different view of RDA, arranged under FRBR & FRAD entities
Link to RDA instruction
RDA Mappings • Map RDA to MARC21 & vice versa
• Hint: use Ctrl+f to find a word
Link to MARC
Link to RDA instruction
Maps• Mappings created and shared by Toolkit users
• Supplement the “formal” RDA mappings
Examples of RDA Records
Formats of material Display in RDA element order, then in MARC format
Workflows• Toolkit users create workflows or manuals
• Share globally, or locally within institution’s subscription
Complex workflow with linked Contents List to aid navigation …
… and links to RDA instructions, other resources in the Toolkit, external websites
Entity Relationship Diagrams – flowcharts of behind the scenes modelling
Schemas can be downloaded – for database developers and IT staff
Module 3Exercise 2
• AACR2 full text, with links to corresponding RDA instructions
• LC-PCC PS
• Other resources, e.g. FRBR, FRAD, Dublin Core, etc.
Resources tab
AACR2 (full text) • Links to corresponding RDA, DCRMB etc. instructions
• Click on the RDA link next to AACR2 1.1B6 and …
… you’re taken to the relevant RDA instruction, highlighted in yellow
AACR2 rules may be related to multiple RDA instructions
e.g. click on the RDA link at AACR2 1.2B5 and …
… choose an RDA instruction from a results list
Searching
Quick searche.g. RDA instruction 3.2
… takes you directly to the RDA instruction you searched for
Quick searche.g. phrase “title proper”
… takes you to a results screen. Click on a relevant section, e.g. 2.3.2.7 …
Core RDA element
RDA basic version
… and the instruction is displayed with your search terms highlighted.
Navigate using “Previous” and “Next” icons
Return to results
Select all
Advanced search • Use magnifying glass icon
• Search entire Toolkit, or parts of it
• Limit your search by type
Try search for “illustrations” in the whole Toolkit…
Result set includes RDA instructions, AACR2 instructions, RDA Element Set view
Try searching RDA instructions only, limit to Core instructions
Clear all
Results are just from RDA and all have the “Core” icon
Try searching AACR2 rule 1.4F1
Make sure previous search is cleared from search box at top first!
Results list – 3 relevant RDA instructions
Select the second one, 2.8.6.3 …
RDA instruction 2.8.6.3 displays
Yellow highlighting indicates embedded metadata for AACR2 rule
Module 3Exercise 3
Help, support and other resources
Click “Feedback” to report issues, provide feedback, check on previous issues
http://www.rdatoolkit.org/development
http://www.rdatoolkit.org/virtualusergroup
DescribeNZ wiki: www.describe.org.nz
ACOC RDA website:http://www.nla.gov.au/acoc/resource-description-and-access-rda-in-australia
Questions