SOME GENERAL FEATURES OF RDA Atoma T. Batoma [email protected].

SOME GENERAL FEATURES OF RDA

Atoma T. [email protected]


• RDA major goal: enhance the user’s retrieval and access experience, the so-called FRBR User needs/User tasks (find, identify, select and obtain)

• FRBR conceptual model of entity-relationship offers a more effective means for realizing those tasks (convenience of the user); better adapted to the digital world.

• RDA contains instructions and guidelines for, a)recording attributes for FRBR entities and the relationships between them as well as those creating them, b) describing resources and choosing access points and their form.


•RDA is organized by FRBR entities and relationships

Not by ISBD areas (AACR2)

•RDA is organized in 10 sections that contain separate elements based on user tasks

Not in chapters for classes of materials (AACR2)

•RDA is focused on online resourceNot on print resource (AACR2)


• RDA is a Content Standard Not a display (presentation) standard like

AACR2 (largely a content and display standard)

Not an encoding schema (use whatever schema is appropriate to record data elements: Dublin Core, MODS, MARC, etc.)

• MARC for the purpose of this training


• Group 1 entities: Work, Expression, Manifestation, and Item.

• Group 2 entities: People or “parties” responsible for the intellectual or artistic content, or the physical production, dissemination, etc, of manifestations of bibliographic resources: Persons, Families and Corporate bodies.

• Group 3: Subjects of a work: Group 1and 2 entities + concepts, objects, places, events.


• (Group 1)• Work: distinct intellectual or artistic

creation (or content). • Identifiers (LC control number for

example)– The sound and the fury, by William

Faulkner– Le petit prince, by Antoine de Saint-

Exupery


• (Group 1)• Expression: intellectual or artistic

realization of a work in the form of alpha-numeric, numerical or choreographic notation, sound, image, object, movement, etc. Identifiers LC control number, etc.– The sound and the fury by Faulkner (text) – Symphony No. 9, by Beethoven (musical notation)– The Nutcracker by the American Ballet Theatre

(choreographic notation)– La Gioconda, by Leonard de Vinci (art object)


• (Group 1)• Manifestation: physical embodiment

of an expression of a work, i.e. expressions recorded in some physical form. Identifiers: ISSN, ISBN, publisher’s number, URN, URL, etc.)– The sound and the fury, by William

Faulkner. London, Vintage, 1995. ISBN: 0099475014


• (Group 1)• Item: single exemplar or instance

of a manifestation. Identifiers: call number, copy, location, item record #, etc.– The sound and the fury, by William

Faulkner. London: Vintage, 1995. ISBN: 0099475014. UIU Undergrad., call #: PS3511.A86 S71995


• RDA Elements: Core and Core If elements (RDA 1.3)

• Core elements are elements for describing resources selected from those that reflect attributes and relationships designated in FRBR and FRAD models as supporting user tasks. They are mandatory for a national level record. Example: Title proper (245, $a) RDA/LC, publication date (260,

$c) RDA/LC, copyright date (260, $c) LC

• Core if elements are data elements that become mandatory depending on the situation.Example: Copyright date (260, $c) RDA

• Alternatives (institutional, local policies)


• Vocabularies in RDA– Controlled vocabularies • Closed (a few), such as content, media,

carrier types, mode of issuance, etc.• Open (most): catalogers can supply a term

if needed term is not in the list.


• Vocabularies in RDA (continued)– AACR2 to RDA vocabularies

• Heading Authorized access point• Author, composer, etc.

Creator• Main entry Preferred title + authorized

access point for creator if appropriate• Uniform title (1) Preferred title (+ other

information to differentiate; (2) conventional collective title


• Vocabularies in RDA (continued)– AACR2 to RDA vocabularies • See reference variant access

point• See also reference

authorized access point for related entry• Physical description carrier

description


• Mode of issuance and type of description: (what I am cataloging?)– Mode of issuance : categorization reflecting whether a

resource is in one or more parts, the way it is updated, and its intended termination (2.13.1.1 (single unit, multipart monograph, serial, integrating resource)• Single unit: resource issued as single physical unit ( single

tangible vol. monograph) or single logical unit (pdf file on the web.)

• Multipart monograph: resource issued in 2 or more parts (simultaneously or successively that is complete or intended to be completed in a finite numbers of parts.

• Serial: resource issued in successive parts, usually bearing numbering, that has no predetermined conclusion.

• Integrating resource: Resource that updates but does not remain discrete for integrated into the whole.


• Mode of issuance and type of description: (what I am cataloging?) (continued)– Type of description (comprehensive vs.

analytical, hierarchical)• Comprehensive: describes the resource as a

whole• Analytical: describes a part of a larger resource• Hierarchical (also called multilevel): combines

a comprehensive description of the whole resource with analytical descriptions of one or more of its parts.


• Representation, or how to transcribe the data– ICP Principal:• “Take what you see” • “Accept what you get”• See RDA 1.7.1 for general guidelines• See also appendixes A on capitalization, B

on abbreviations, and C on articles to omit.


• Sources of information (expanded in RDA) – Preferred (not “chief”) source depends

on the resource• Example: Parallel title: same source as

title proper (AACR2), no restriction on location (RDA)• Example: Statement of responsibility:

restricted number of sources in the resource (AACR2), no restriction on location (RDA).


• The General Material Designation (GMD) replaced with– Content type: form of communication in which

the content is expressed (text, musical notation, cartography, etc.)

– Carrier type: format of the storage medium and housing of a carrier in combination with the type of intermediation device required to view, play, run, etc. (audiocassette, cartridge, slides, etc.)

– Media type: general type of intermediation device required to view, play, run, etc., the content of a resource


• No more “rule of 3”

Options:– Name all the parties associated with the creation/

production/distribution of the resource in the statement of responsibility.

– Name only one party and use “and others” strategy (give the number of parties).

– Record the parties not chosen as main access point as added access points (the relationship designators are not mandatory).

GENERAL FEATURES OF RDA vs. AACR2

Questions?


Suggested Readings

RDA: Resource Description and Access, by the Joint Steering Committee for development of RDA, especially “Frequently Asked Questions”, http://www.rda-jsc.org/rdafaq.html

RDA Core Elements: http://www.loc.gov/aba/rda/pdf/core_elements.pdf

AACR2 to RDA using the RDA toolkit, webinar presented by Troy Linker http://www.rdatoolkit.org/webinar/2011Feb

Oliver, Chris. Introducing RDA: A Guide to the Basics. ALA Editions, 2010

Several presentations of FRBR entity-relationships model are available on the web but Qiang’s presentation at the beginning of this training is a clear and informative summary of the model.

http://www.rda-jsc.org/rdafaq.html

http://www.loc.gov/aba/rda/pdf/core_elements.pdf

http://www.rdatoolkit.org/webinar/2011Feb


Suggested Readings

• You may also find useful the following multilingual glossary of cataloging terms, which is at http://www.ifla.org/en/publications/multilingual-dictionary-of-cataloguing-terms-and-concepts-muldicat

http://www.ifla.org/en/publications/multilingual-dictionary-of-cataloguing-terms-and-concepts-muldicat

http://www.ifla.org/en/publications/multilingual-dictionary-of-cataloguing-terms-and-concepts-muldicat

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