Teaching RDATrain-the-trainer course for
RDA: Resource Description and AccessPresented by the National Library of Australia
September – November 2012
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Introduction
Purpose of course • To train participants to:
– Use the RDA Toolkit
– Understand principles of RDA
– Provide tools for teaching RDA
Introduction
• Supplied course material– RDA Training workbook– Electronic copies of Training Workshop material
• Training notes• PowerPoint presentations• Additional activities
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Ice Breaker
Day One
• Overview and context of RDA• FRBR refresher• RDA Toolkit• Key differences from AACR2: Structure• Transcription changes from AACR2
Module 1:
Overview and context of RDA
Learning outcomes
• Explore the context and background to RDA
• Explore the challenges we will face withimplementation and training in
RDA
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Activity
Semantic Web and RDA
Web 1.0Web 2.0
Semantic Web
Metadata standards
ONIXStandard developed by publishing industry
Developed and maintained by cultural and computer science sectors
Semantic Web and Linked Data
• Internet = computers talking to each other
• Semantic Web = computers understanding what they are talking to each other about
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGg8A2zfWKg
Semantic Web and Linked Data
Linked Data• Four principles:
– Use URIs as names for things– Use HTTP URIs so that people can look up those
names– When someone looks up a URI it provides useful
information– Include links to other URIs so that they can
discover more things
Semantic Web and Linked Data
• Resource Description Framework
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-primer-20040210/#statements
Semantic Web and Linked Data
Source: Network visualisation, Ruth Park, AustLit (www.austlit.edu.au), 2002- [Retrieved 19/10/2012]
Semantic Web and Linked Data
“Now! ... That should clear up a few things around here!”
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