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Resource Description and Access (RDA)
Emporia State University, LI804, Dr. Lynne Chase, Fall 2009Holly Caro, Paula Ciberay, Jennifer Dibbern, Andrea McCullough, Amy Nelson, Alfredo Pinto, Kate Skarbek, Elisa Wood
What is Resource Description and Access (RDA)?
Cataloguing code
Primarily used by libraries
Designed to replace Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd Ed (AACR2)
Information Transfer Cycle
Differences between RDA and AACR2
Provides digital resource cataloguing guidelines
Designed with the user in mind
More detail in record about editions, translations, alternative format and creator
AACR2 RDA
General Material Designators
(GMDs) of AACR2 will not be
used in RDA. Instead…
Heading will now be…
“See” references will now
be…
“Uniform title” will be …
When preferred title is linked with the creator…
Data elements for media
type, carrier type, and
content type will be
used
“access point”
“Variant access points”
“Preferred title” for a work
We have a “preferred
access point” for the
work
Expanding Bibliographic Universe
“This bibliographic universe is not just books, but rather, many galaxies and worlds of content….”
(Tillet, 2008, p. 4)
Why RDA?
A need for a cataloguing code to adequately describe digital technology
A means to reach Internet users
Offers more specific controlled vocabularies allowing machines to manipulate data more than before
Focuses on identifying elements needed to describe interrelationships
Who is Involved in the Development of RDA?
Joint Steering Committee (JSA) for Development of RDA
Canadian Committee on Cataloguing
Close Up on Key Players
LOC Working group on the Future of Bibliographic Control
Presents findings on bibliographic control and other
descriptive practices
Presents findings on supporting management of and
access to library materials in the evolving information
technology environment
Recommends ways library community can implement
these practices
Advises Library of Congress on its roles and priorities – In
2008, recommended suspending work on RDA
Close Up on Key Players, cont.
Committee of Principles
RDA Test Coordinating Committee Members
RDA Test Partners- Partners represent institutions that use a wide range of cataloging systems, OPACS, communication formats and types of materials.
Museums
Archives
Publishers
Educators
ILS Vendors
Dublin Core
Other semantic web
communities
Who Uses RDA?
Few so far
Who Will Use RDA?
Possibly:
Although right now, the real answer is no one.
Potential Users of RDA
Library communities who do not currently use an online catalogs, databases or bibliographies
Other communities with a need for access to online catalogs, databases or bibs
Corporations and businesses
How is RDA Constructed?
10 Sections broken into 2 main categories
Attributes = first 4 sections
Relationships = sections 5 – 10 deal with
recording relationships either to or
between entities
Attributes
Manifestation and item
Work and expression
Person, family, and corporate body
Concept, object, event, and place
Relationships
Primary relationships
Relationships of persons, families, and corporate bodies associated with a resource
Subject relationships
Relationships between works, expressions, manifestations, and items
Relationships between persons, families and corporate bodies
Relationships between concepts, objects, events, and places
What is RDA Based On?
Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Resources (FRBR)
Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD)
Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Resources (FRBR)
An entity-relationship model
Designed to give holistic approach to user retrieval and access
Reflects an associative, relational organization of information where the user can expand their search in multiple directions if they wish
FRBR, cont.
Model identifies and facilitates 4 user tasks:
Find- specific resources
Indentify- confirm resource as meeting user
needs
Select- find resources that are singular to the
user’s need
Obtain- gain access or acquire the resource
5th Unofficial (enhancement) user task: Navigate- to discover relations of the universe represented in the catalog, database or bibliography being used
FRBR Group 1 Entities like Plato’s Forms?
Work
Expression
Manifestation
Item
FRBR consists of 3 entity groups:
Work, Expression, Manifestation, Item
Person, Corporate Body
Concepts, Objects, Events, Place
A book, stage play, CD, film, etc.
The group or organization responsible for stewardship of product
The subject of the product
Work, Expression, Manifestation, Item
Person, Corporate Body
Figure 3.2: Group 2 Entities and “Responsibility” Relationships
Concepts, Objects, Event, Place
Figure 3.3: Group 3 Entities and “Subject” Relationships
How FRBR is Used
FictionFinder is an OCLC, FRBR-based online catalog for over 2.9 fiction records in WorldCat
Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD)
An entity-relationship model
User-centered
Model identifies 4 user tasks
Find- same as FRBR
Identify- same as FRBR
Contextualize- to place in context, to clarify
relationships
Justify- document why the name was chosen as an
access point
FRAD Functions
Every access point to a work is unique and allows access to the specific work
Searching under one heading will find associated records or collections
RDA History
British and N. American texts of Anglo-American cataloging code
published
AACR2 issued by English-speaking
countries
Revisions to AACR2
IFLA developed FRBR to reinforce objectives of
catalogs and the importance of relationships
Revisions to AACR2
International Conference on the Principles
and Future Development of
AACR held in Toronto
Draft revision of AACR2 begun
(AACR3)
Concern about need to move
towards FRBR's model
Draft of RDA part 1 made available
for review
More drafts of RDA chapters
issued
Concerns raised by NLM & National
Agricultural Library
Full draft of RDA issued
Test period for RDA
Anticipated release of RDA
20021978
1988 Late 1990’s
19981997
1967
20042005
2006-072007
2008201
0Nov 2009
Thoughts on RDA
Much debate caused by so many unknowns.
The test period will help clear up some of the these.
The evaluative test factors set to determine feasibility are:
Operational
Technical
Economic
RDA Pros
A cataloging standard for the digital environment
A framework that describes all resources
Focuses on the needs of usersSupports metadata sharing among metadata communities
Supports new uses of library records in online services
RDA Cons
Some claim RDA goes too far
Others claim that RDA doesn’t go far enough
Concerns about cost/benefit
Concerns about how RDA will impact work flows
Concerns about learning and training
Switching from AACRs vocabulary to RDA will be difficult for catalogers
Further RDA Questions
Will switching from format as top priority to function as top priority work efficiently in the arrangement of cataloging rules?
Will the additional information provided by RDA prove useful to users, will the results be information overload?
Will ILS systems be compatible with all access points?
Will transitioning to RDA be difficult for the customer; will it be easily understood?
References
FictionFinder: A FRBR-based prototype for fiction in WorldCat (n.d.). Retrieved September 22, 2009, from http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/frbr/fictionfinder.htm
Hillman, D. (2009, February 2). Denver Midwinter: All RDA, all the time… [Web log message]. Retrieved from http://managemetadata.org/blog/2009/02/02/denver-midwinter-all-rda-all-the-time
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (2009, February). Functional requirements for bibliographic records (Final Report). Retrieved from http://www.ifla.org/en/publications/functional-requirements-for-bibliographic-records
Joint Steering Committee for the Development of RDA (2009). Report on RDA. Retrieved from http://www.rda-jsc.org/index.html
Joint Steering Committee for the Development of RDA (2006). Resource description and access. Retrieved from http://www.rdaonline.org/
Library of Congress (2008). Joint Statement of the Library of Congress, the National Library of Medicine, and the National Agricultural Library on Resource Description and Access. Retrieved from http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/rda/
Library of Congress (2008). On the Record: Report of The Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control. Retrieved from http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/rda/
References, cont.
Library of Congress (2009). Testing Resource Description and Access. Retrieved from http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/rda/
Lovins, D. (2008). Cataloging news. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 45(4), 101-113.
Patton, G.E. (2009, August). From FRBR to FRAD: Extending the model. Paper presented at the World Library and Information Congress: 75TH IFLA General Conference and Council, Milan, Italy. Retrieved from http://www.ifla.org/files/hq/papers/ifla75/215-patton-en.pdf
Taylor, A.G., Joudrey, D.N. (2009) The organization of information. Westport, Connecticut: Libraries Unlimited.
Tillett, B. (2008). Cataloging principles and RDA: Resource description and access. Retrieved from http://www.frbr.org/2008/07/16/barbara-tillett-rda-webcasts
Tillett, B. (2008). Resource description and access: Background/overview. Retrieved from http://www.frbr.org/2008/07/16/barbara-tillett-rda-webcasts
Tillett, B. (2004). What is FRBR? A conceptual model for the bibliographic universe, The Australian Library Journal, 54 (1). Retrieved October 4, 2009, from www.worldcat.org/oclc/54962277?tab=details
Vizine-Goetz, D. (2007). Fiction Finder: Imagining a Next Generation Catalog. Retrieved September 22, 2009, from http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/frbr/fictionfinder.htm