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Transcript of Getting Real With RDA
Diane I. HillmannDirector of Metadata Initiatives
Information Institute of Syracuse
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LibraryData
Libraries are no longer the first place people come for informationThe Internet has changed the way people (including
us) behave when seeking informationOur former “granularity consensus” is coming apart
To compete effectively for user attention, we must: Join the larger world of information, where our users
areLearn how the competition attracts users, draws them
in, and takes good advantage of their interest in participating
Find a better balance between protecting privacy and capturing usage behavior
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Type of Standard Old Standard New Standard(s)?
Bibliographic Model
None FRBR, FRBRoo
Metadata Content AACR2 RDA
Metadata Structure MARC21 Bibliographic
RDVocab
Name Authority MARC21 Authority FRAD
Subject Authority MARC21 Authority FRASAR, SKOS
Encoding MARC21 XML, XML/RDF
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The comfortable certainties we know are coming undone, whether we’re ready or not
We have much experience and insight to offer the larger information world (but not everything we’ve learned is relevant)
We are collectively about the size of the Queen Mary, unable to turn on a dime—this change will take time
Resistance is futile—we are not in charge of this new world, and our options are two: adapt or retire
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Is RDA really going to happen?Is it that different from AACR2?What about MARC?
When will RDA be implemented? How will RDA be implemented?
How can we best prepare for all this?What’s this Semantic Web thingy all about,
and why do we care?
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RDA is a FRBR-based approach to structuring bibliographic data
It’s contains more explicitly machine-friendly linkages (preferably with URIs)
There’s more emphasis on relationships and roles …
… and less emphasis on cataloger-created notes and text strings (particularly for identification)
Also, there’s less transcription (important in an increasingly digital world)
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The Textual Guidance (successor to AACR2) RDA Constituency Review has been completed,
decisions about what will be included in the first release have been made
2nd quarter calendar 2009 – RDA content is finalized 3rd quarter calendar 2009 – RDA is released 3rd and 4th quarters calendar 2009, possibly into 1st
quarter calendar 2010 – Testing by national libraries 1st and 2nd quarters calendar 2010 – Analysis and
evaluation of testing by national libraries 3rd-4th quarters calendar 2010 – RDA implementation ?
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RDA Online will include the text and a number of tools
Pricing still not firm, but ALA Publishing is aware of the need for affordability
Among the free tools we should see:Capability to create “sample records” using
various flavors of RDAXML Schemas to use with RDA dataRSS feeds to keep track of vocabulary changes Ability to participate in discussion of changes
in RDA vocabularies
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RDA elements, roles and vocabularies have been provisionally registered The vocabularies and the text will be tied together in
RDA OnlineMaintenance of vocabularies will be via the Registry
(no synchronization necessary)Some efforts have begun to consider how MARC21
data can be parsed into FRBR entities and RDAeXtensible Catalog Project moving strongly in this
directionUnfortunately, we don’t know what OCLC is planning
Discussions about long term maintenance of both RDA and the vocabularies have barely started
The push is already on for multi-language RDA Vocabularies
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DCMI/RDA Task GroupSee: http://dublincore.org/dcmirdataskgroup/ Set up during the April 2007 London meeting
between JSC and DCMIGordon Dunsire and Diane Hillmann, co-chairsKaren Coyle & Alistair Miles, consultants
IFLA Classification and Indexing SectionGordon Dunsire (Centre for Digital Library
Research, University of Strathclyde) will be registering FRBR entities and relationships
Possible inclusion of ISBDs, FRAD, etc., in future
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RDA Elements Listing
334!
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RDA Elements Listing
334!
Base material
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Detail: Base Material
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Detail: Base Material
URI
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RDA Roles Listing
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RDA Roles Listing
Author
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Detail: RDA Role Author
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RDA WEMI Relationships
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Detail: RDA WEMI Relationship
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RDA Base Material Vocabulary
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RDA Base Material Vocabulary
Skin
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RDA Base Material: Skin
No definition?
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From the DCMI/RDA Cataloger Scenarios
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Jane Cataloger is assigned to work on a gift collection. Her first selection is a Latvian translation of Kurt Vonnegut's "Bluebeard: a novel." She searches the library database for the original work, and finds:
*Author: Kurt Vonnegut *Title of the work: Bluebeard: a novel *Form of work: Novel *Original language of the work: English
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<frbrWork ID="rda.basic/01”>
<rdarole:author>Kurt Vonnegut</rdarole:author><titleOfTheWork>Bluebeard: a novel</titleOfTheWork><formOfWork>Novel</formOfWork>
<originalLanguageOfTheWork>English<originalLanguageOfTheWork></frbrWork>
Translated to RDA/XML:
Upgraded to RDA/XML with Links:<frbrWork ID="rda.basic/01”>
<rdarole:author>http://lcnaf.info/79062641</rdarole:author><titleOfTheWork>Bluebeard: a novel</titleOfTheWork><formOfWork>http://RDVocab.info/genre/1008</formOfWork>
<originalLanguageOfTheWork>http://marclang.info/eng </></frbrWork>
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with links to the following expression information:
*Language of expression: English *Content type: Text
and one manifestation:
*Statement designating edition: 1st trade edition *Place of publication: New York *Publisher’s name: Delacorte Press *Date of publication: 1987 *Extent of text: 300 pages *Identifier for the manifestation: [ISBN]0385295901
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<frbrExpression ID="rda.basic/07”>
<contentType>Text</contentType><languageOfExpression>English<languageOfExpression></frbrExpression>
Translated to RDA/XML:
Upgraded to RDA/XML with Links:
<frbrExpression ID="rda.basic/07”>
<formOfWork>http://RDVocab.info/termList/RDAContentType/1020</><languageOfExpression>http://marclang.info/eng </>
</frbrExpression>
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<frbrManifestation ID="rda.basic/09”>
<statementDesignatingEdition>1st Trade Edition</><placeOfPublication>New York<placeOfPublication>
<publishersName>Delacorte Press</publishersName><dateOfPublication>1987</dateOfPublication><extentOfText>300 pages</extentOfText><identifierForTheManifestation>[ISBN]0385295901</>
</frbrManifestation>
Translated to RDA/XML (with links below):
<frbrManifestatiion ID="rda.basic/09”>
<statementDesignatingEdition>1st Trade Edition</><placeOfPublication>http://www.getty.edu/tgn/7007567</>
<publishersName>http://onixpub.info/2039987</><dateOfPublication>1987</dateOfPublication><extentOfText>300 pages</extentOfText><identifierForTheManifestation>urn:ISBN:0385295901</>
</frbrManifestation>
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Work
Exp: eng
Man: eng
FRBR Group 1
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Jane begins her description by linking to the existing Work entity. She then creates an expression description:
*Content type: text*Language of expression: Latvian*Translator: Grigulis, Arvīds
She creates an authority record for the translator since none yet existed. She continues by creating a fuller description for the new manifestation, linking to the authority record for the Latvian publisher (what luck, it already existed!).
*Title: [in Latvian]*Place of publication: Riga*Publisher’s name: Liesma*Date of publication: 1997*Extent of Text: 315 pages
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<frbrExpression ID="rda.basic/11”>
<contentType>text</contentType><languageOfExpression>Latvian<languageOfExpression>
<rdarole:translator>Grigulis, Arvīds</rdarole:translator></frbrExpression>
Translated to RDA/XML:
Upgraded to RDA/XML with Links:<frbrExpression ID="rda.basic/11”>
<formOfWork>http://RDVocab.info/termList/RDAContentType/1020</><languageOfExpression>http://marclang.info/lav </><rdarole:translator>http://lcnaf.info/83219993
</frbrExpression>
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<frbrManifestation ID="rda.basic/09”>
<title>[in Latvian]</><placeOfPublication>Riga<placeOfPublication><publishersName>Liesma</publishersName><dateOfPublication>1997</dateOfPublication><extentOfText>315 pages</extentOfText>
</frbrManifestation>
Translated to RDA/XML (with links below):
<frbrManifestatiion ID="rda.basic/09”>
<placeOfPublication>http://www.getty.edu/tgn/7006484</><publishersName>http://onixpub.info/6770094</><dateOfPublication>1997</dateOfPublication><extentOfText>315 pages</extentOfText>
</frbrManifestation>
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Work
Exp: eng
Man: eng
Exp: lav
Man: lav
FRBR Group 1
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Work
Exp: eng
Man: eng
Exp: lav
Man: lav
Author
Publisher
Translator
FRBR Group 1 FRBR Group 2
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Work
Exp: eng
Man: eng
Exp: lav
Man: lav
Author
Publisher
Translator
FRBR Group 1 FRBR Group 2
FRBR Group 3
Subjects
ConceptsObjectsEventsPlaces
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Work
Exp: eng
Man: eng
Exp: lav
Man: lav
Author
Publisher
Translator
FRBR Group 1 FRBR Group 2
FRBR Group 3
Subjects
ConceptsObjectsEventsPlaces
Content Vocabularies
Media Vocabularies
Other Information
In the “Cloud”
Relationship
Vocabularies
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Now that the revolution is upon us?
We need to: Make our data harvestable so that others can
use itIdentify our data structures and vocabularies
for use on the webMake our data more “data-like” (not so much
for direct consumption by humans)Make our systems more “cloud-like”
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Library
Data
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Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882family name
fore name
datebirth
datedeath
What important world events happened during his lifetime?Who was writing on science at the same time?Show me a map of important places in his life
What can you do with it?
Coordination with JSC (or it’s successor, given the need to move beyond “Anglo-American”) on long-term maintenance planningWe need a lightweight, more participatory
process, where change is not a multi-year marathon
Continuing development towards a more Semantic web-friendly RDA (even less reliance on transcription, for instance)
Tool development (at all levels, including ILS vendors)
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The bad news: This isn’t like 1981, when there was a “start date” and we knew exactly when to change gears
More bad news: This transition is likely to be a pretty messy one, and last longer than we would like
One unknown is OCLC’s role—at present they seem to be focused on consolidating control over library data and promoting WorldCat as an ILS
The good news: library vendors are starting to wake up and smell the coffee!
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Testing what, exactly?Attempting to determine whether RDA Online in
its initial release offers sufficient benefit, compared to current methods, to achieve the objectives that the Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA has stated for the proposed new cataloging code
Based on the analysis of the test results, and considering the cost of implementation, the three US national libraries will determine whether to implement the initial release of RDA
Not clear what a “no” recommendation might imply
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20+ diverse test partners will create records, using a 20-25 item test set of resources
Each test partner will produce an RDA record and a record using its currently adopted cataloging code, e.g. AACR2, DACS, VRA, for each resource in the core test set (using different people)
Each record creator will fill out a questionnaireThe test partners will make available the
records they create in this test to the Steering Committee for review and analysis
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Read, learn, question …Keep an eye on the testingTry out the RDA Tools (there may be a free
period during the testing process)Make some records, explore how they might
work with non-traditional materialsLearn more about web technologies!Play in the Registry Sandbox
(http://sandbox.metadataregistry.org)
Push your colleagues and administrators to participate
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Thanks to Karen Coyle for the use of some of her slides, as well as many hours of stimulating conversation about these issues …
Thanks to Jon Phipps, Registry Developer, for keeping me honest
Contact info for Diane: [email protected]
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