RDA for Public Services

RDA FOR PUBLIC SERVICESEducation Institute WebinarPresented by Trina Grover & Alison HitchensOctober 16, 2013(Repeat of the EI Institute presentation of Oct. 2012)

MANY THANKS!

To all of those people who are letting us re-use their presentations in preparation for RDA implementation.

In this case, thanks to Chris Oliver (McGill University) for use of slides from various presentations.

This presentation is based on a presentation given to uWaterloo public services staff in April 2012

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AGENDA

What is RDA?How will RDA affect display?How will RDA affect searching & navigation?The futureYour questions


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RESOURCE DESCRIPTION & ACCESS


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FUNCTIONAL DATA

Core elements to assist users

+ optional elements too!

user tasks

find identifyselectobtain


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NAVIGATING RELATIONSHIPS

Image sources: amazon.com, lawrencehill.com/bio.html


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RDA IS

designed to

work in current catalogues

be compatible with existing records

co-exist well into the future

enabling us to

take advantage of new database structures

create data that can function in linked data environment

make library data visible in the web

make library data work with other types of metadata


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HOW WILL RDA AFFECT DISPLAY OF INFORMATION?

Photo source: Supercake http://www.flickr.com/photos/supercake/1935338859/


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Smith, Joseph, 1805-1844, author.

Joseph Smith histories, 1832-1844 / Karen Lynn Davidson, David J. Whittaker, Mark R. Ashurst-McGee, Richard L. Jensen, volume editors.Salt Lake City : The Church Historian’s Press, [2012], ©2012.1 online resource (xlvii, 686 pages) : illustrationsIncludes bibliographical references and index.

Davidson, Karen Lynn, editor; Whittaker, David J., editor ; Ashurst-McGee, Mark, editor ; Jensen, Richard L., editor.

Smith, Joseph, 1805-1844. Joseph Smith papers. Histories ; volume 1.

Access points are in bold

Use chat box to answer:what is different about the information in this record?


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FEWER ABBREVIATIONS

Don’t introduce abbreviations– accurate representation

On title page:

3rd ed.

Second edition

Data recorded:

3rd ed.

Second edition

• Don’t use abbreviations - responsiveness to user need

Publisher: [place of publication not identified] : Fishy Press, 2011 Extent: x, 143 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm


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TAKE WHAT YOU SEE! “Take what you see” - accurate representation of the

resource

AACR2Title: The wolrd [sic] of television.

Variant title: The world of television.

RDATitle: The wolrd of television.

Variant title: Title should read: The world of television.


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TAKE WHAT YOU SEE!

• make use of machine-generated data• Important for bulk-loading of records and for re-use of

metadata• Does result in variability in display

Title: BIG BOOK OF INTARSIA WOODWORKING : 37 Projects and Expert Techniques for Segmentation and Intarsia


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OPTION TO LIST ALL OF THE AUTHORS!

AACR2:Bill Traylor : drawings from the collections of the High Museum of Art and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts / essays by Margaret Lynne Ausfeld … [et al.].

RDA:Bill Traylor : drawings from the collections of the High Museum of Art and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts / essays by Margaret Lynne Ausfeld, Susan Mitchell Crawley, Leslie H. Paisley, Fred Barron, Jeffrey Wolf.


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FORMAT AND TYPE OF CONTENT

The sound of music [sound recording]

The sound of music

The sound of music


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CREATE ICONS MORE ACCURATELY


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Print book:content type: textmedia type:

unmediatedcarrier type: volume

E-book:content type: textmedia type: computercarrier type: online

resource

Audio book:content type: spoken wordmedia type: audiocarrier type: audio disc

Online Audio book:content type: spoken wordmedia type: computercarrier type: online

resource

SAY MORE ABOUT THE RESOURCE

In the past this would all be represented by: [electronic resource]

content type: textcontent type: cartographic imagecontent type: still imagemedia type: computercarrier type: online resource

With RDA: we need to figure out the display!


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ELEMENTS RECORDED TO IDENTIFY A PERSON


Date of birth: 19310710 Name: Munro, AlicePlace of birth: Wingham, Ont.Associated country: CanadaPlace of residence: Clinton,

Ont.Occupation: Short-story

writer Gender: femaleLanguage: eng

Fuller form of name: Alice AnnVariant name: Laidlaw, Alice Ann

Biographical information: Alice Ann Munro (née Laidlaw) is

a Canadian short-story writer & three-time winner of Canada’s Governor General Award for English-language fiction, recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature & the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work…

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POSSIBILITIES FOR DISPLAY

Munro, Alice, 1931- (short-story writer) Munro, Alice, 1931-

Canadian short story-writer born in 1931 Munro, Alice, 1931-

Also known as Alice Ann Munro and Alice Laidlaw Munro, Alice, 1931-

Who is this? Munro, Alice, 1931-


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HOW WILL RDA AFFECT SEARCHING & NAVIGATION?

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FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS FORBIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORDS (FRBR)

workexpressionmanifestationitem

personfamilycorporate body

conceptobjecteventplace

FRBR Group 1things that libraries collect

FRBR Group 2entities who do the intellectual / artistic work to make things

FRBR Group 3 subjects


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AS A SEARCHER, I

need to read the novel for an English exam -- I want access to the WORK

want an audio version for commuting -- I need to find a particular EXPRESSION

prefer a paperback copy when traveling -- I want a particular MANIFESTATION

need to find the copy I borrowed, it is overdue -- I need a particular ITEM

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4 ENTITIES - 1 OBJECT

an item in Ryerson’s collection

one example of the Beach Holme Publishing manifestation

an embodiment of the original English expression

a realization of the work by M. Crummey


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SLIGHTLY “FRBR-IZED” CATALOGUE

Source: Oliver (2011: slide 33)


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TRULY FRBR-IZED DISPLAY OF DATA

texts

translations of text

audio-books

dramatizations

adaptations as a motion picture

criticisms

Source: Oliver (2011: slide 34)


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25Source: http://frbr.oclc.org/pages/Pages?sn=351320355&instname=A project of OCLC Research


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NAVIGATING NAMES

Tremblay, Michel, 1942-Occupation: WriterSelected works: Le Vrai Monde (1983)

Un objet de beauté (1997)

Tremblay, Michel, 1954-Associated group: HEC Montréal

Tremblay, Michel, 1955- Affiliation: Medical School of Laval University

Tremblay, Michel, 1964-Associated place: SaskatchewanAffiliation: Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food


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adapted from D. Paradis (2009)

LOOKING TOWARD BETTER DISPLAY & NAVIGATION OF ROLES

Atom Egoyan is the author of 25 resources is the director of 37 resources is an actor in 5 resources is the subject of 20 resources

WE ARE FAMILY!

Photo credit: Derek Hitchens. Used with permission.


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FAMILY EXAMPLEName: Eaton FamilyPlace of residence: Toronto, Ont. Prominent member: Eaton, Timothy, 1834-1907

History: Timothy Eaton was born in March 1834 in Ballymena, Northern Ireland. At the age of 20 he moved to Ontario. He married Margaret Beattie in 1862 and had 5 children. He opened a dry goods store in 1869 in Toronto which was the cornerstone for the large Canadian retail chain Eaton's. John Craig Eaton inherited the business in 1907 ... The business went bankrupt in 1999.


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SEARCH FOR MULTI-LINGUAL MATERIALS

Title: Antigo Testamento Poliglota : Hebraico, Grego, Português, Inglês.

Bible. Old Testament. HebrewBible. Old Testament. GreekBible. Old Testament. PortugueseBible. Old Testament. English


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THE FUTURE

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FOR FUTURE SEARCH & NAVIGATIONRD

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STRUCTURED DATA LINKED DATA

Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)http://viaf.org/viaf/109322990/

DbPediahttp://dbpedia.org/page/Margaret_Atwood

You may also want to explore: WorldCat Identities

http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n79-102766


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VIAF RD

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DBPEDIA PROPERTIES

dbpprop:influenceddbpedia:Orhan_Pamukdbpedia:Barbara_Kingsolverdbpedia:Graeme_Gibsondbpedia:Laura_Moriarty_(novelist)dbpedia:Kazuo_Ishiguro

dbpedia-owl:influencedBydbpedia:Virginia_Woolfdbpedia:Aldous_Huxleydbpedia:Jonathan_Swiftdbpedia:William_Shakespearedbpedia:George_Orwelldbpedia:Fyodor_Dostoyevskydbpedia:Northrop_Fryedbpedia:George_Eliotdbpedia:Alice_Munro


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dbpprop:viaf34452488

foaf:depictionhttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Margaret_Atwood_Eden_Mills_Writers_Festival_2006.jpg

foaf:homepagehttp://margaretatwood.ca/

is owl:sameAs ofhttp://data.nytimes.com/N10507958644473712303

BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE DE FRANCE DATA IN RDF

Human readable viewhttp://data.bnf.fr/12417486/alexandre_dumas_la_reine_margot/

Machine-readable viewhttp://data.bnf.fr/12417486/alexandre_dumas_la_reine_margot/rdf.xml


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BEYOND OUR BORDERS

Author Capture enhanced biographical informationLink to other works by the author not held in the library’s collectionContribute information about an author to the web

WorkCapture descriptive information about the content of the work (e.g. in Wikipedia, in a national bibliography, publisher’s catalogue, etc.)Link out to resources that are based on the work (e.g. adaptations, movies, plays etc.)Contribute bibliographic data and relationships to the webMake our library resources discoverable on the web


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RDA IS…

Photo source: Ceahttp://www.flickr.com/photos/centralasian/8071729256/

… positioning library metadata for the future


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QUESTIONS?

Trina GroverCatalogue LibrarianRyerson University [email protected]

Alison HitchensCataloguing & Metadata LibrarianUniversity of Waterloo [email protected]


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REFERENCES

American Library Association, Canadian Library Association, and CILIP: Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. RDA Toolkit. http://access.rdatoolkit.org/

Grover, Trina. “Cataloguing on the edge: emerging standards for bibliographic data,” PowerPoint prepared for Atlantic Provinces Library Association, May 17, 2011. Access at http://rdaincanada.wikispaces.com/file/view/apla2011b.ppt

Hitchens, Alison. “Resource Description and Access (RDA) for Public Services Staff,” PowerPoint prepared for ISD Training Day, University of Waterloo Library, April 26, 2012. http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/staff/isrtrain/sessions/retreats/documents/rda.pdf

Library of Congress. “Module 4: Persons, Families and Corporate Bodies: Elements and authorized access points.” PowerPoint module prepared for the Georgia Public Library Service Cataloging Summit, August 9-10, 2011. Access at http://www.loc.gov/aba/rda/source/Georgia_module_4_17august2011.ppt

Oliver, Chris. “What is RDA and why do I need to know?” PowerPoint prepared for CLA Montreal Chapter, March 9th, 2011. Access at http://rdaincanada.wikispaces.com/file/view/What+is+RDA+March+9+2011+final.pptx


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OTHER RESOURCES - RDA

Library of Congress. Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate. Resource Description and Access (RDA): Information and Resources in Preparation for RDA. http://www.loc.gov/aba/rda/

Library of Congress. Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition/

Oliver, Chris. Introducing RDA: a guide to the basics. Chicago: American Library Association, 2010.

RDA Canadian Knowledge Exchange wiki. http://rdaincanada.wikispaces.com/

Welsh, Anne; Batley, Sue. Practical cataloguing: AACR, RDA and MARC21. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2012.


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OTHER RESOURCES – LINKED DATA

Coyle, Karen. RDA vocabularies for a twenty-first century data environment. Library Technology Reports v. 46, no. 2. Chicago, Ill.: ALA TechSource, 2010.

Coyle, Karen. Linked data tools: connecting on the web. Library Technology Reports v. 48, no. 4. Chicago, Ill.: ALA TechSource, 2012.

Coyle, Karen. Understanding the Semantic Web: bibliographic data and metadata. Library Technology Reports v. 46, no. 1. Chicago, Ill.: ALA TechSource, 2010.

Harper, Corey. “Linked Library Data: Tuning Library Metadata for the Semantic Web.” ALCTS webcast, March 16, 2011http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/cat/031611

Miller, Eric. “Bibliographic Framework Initiative Update MARC Linked Data Model.” Presented at Library of Congress, Washington DC July 16, 2012http://de.slideshare.net/zepheiraorg/bibliographic-14207718 (slides)http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5605 (video)


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