A centre of expertise in digital information management UKOLN is supported by: Moving from AACR2 to RDA Ann Chapman Chair of CILIP/BL Committee on AACR/RDA UKOLN Policy and Advice Team

A centre of expertise in digital information management AACR2 to RDA Perceived need for new edition instead of further revision of AACR2 Working title Resource Description and Access (RDA) Planned date of publication 2008

A centre of expertise in digital information management AACR2 Part 1 Description –General rules –Rules for specific types of resources (e.g music) Part 2 Headings, Uniform Titles and References Appendices –Capitalization –Abbreviations –Numerals –Glossary –Initial articles

A centre of expertise in digital information management Issues to be addressed Where possible –Rules cover all resource types –Use FRBR terms –Internationalisation –Revision of examples –Separation of content and carrier terms

A centre of expertise in digital information management Who is involved? JSC reps Hugh Taylor (CILIP), Alan Danskin (BL) CILIP/BL Committee 4 x CILIP 3 x BL Other representatives (e.g. digital, art) Contact with specialist groups (e.g. BIALL) for specific responses

A centre of expertise in digital information management How it works Drafts From Editor and JSC Proposals From constituencies (LC, ALA, CILIP, etc) Responses to drafts & proposals From constituencies via JSC reps Revised drafts

A centre of expertise in digital information management Dec 2004 – March 2005 RDA Part 1 Resource Description RDA Part 2 Relationships RDA Part 3 Access Point Control Draft of RDA Part 1 –Issued December 2004, responses March 2005 A. General rules B. Supplementary rules for specific content C. Supplementary rules for specific media

A centre of expertise in digital information management Dec 2005 – March 2006 RDA Part 1 revised draft. –Ch.1 General guidelines on resource description –Ch.2 Identification of the resource –Ch.3 Technical description –Ch.4 Content description –Ch.5 Information on terms of availability –Ch.6 Item-specific information –Ch.7 persons, families, and corporate bodies associated with a resource Issued December 2005, responses March 2006

A centre of expertise in digital information management April – August 2006 RDA Part A (drafts of chs. 3, 6 & 7 issued 2006) Ch.1 General guidelines Ch.2 Identification of the resource Ch.3 Technical description (incl. media, carrier) Ch.4 Content description Ch.5 Information on terms of availability Ch.6 Related resources Ch.7 Persons, families and corporate bodies associated with a resource RDA part B (still to be written)

A centre of expertise in digital information management April 2006 onwards Appendices –Capitalizations –Abbreviations –Initial articles –Presentation of descriptive data –Glossary

A centre of expertise in digital information management Examples review Two Working Groups Thorough review of existing examples Omit / replace examples Provide new examples

A centre of expertise in digital information management Content and carrier GMD/SMD Working Group –Report submitted April 2006 RDA/ONIX Initiative –Report 2006 Both to feed into revision of Part A. –3.2 (Media category) –3.3 (Type of carrier) –4.2 (Type and form of content)

A centre of expertise in digital information management Mapping to MARC 21 ACOC and CCC charged with mapping Will identify: –Where RDA will impact on MARC 21 –Possible new elements for RDA JSC plans a discussion paper on these areas for MARBI January 2007

A centre of expertise in digital information management RDA – what will it be? Online resource (demo, session 5) –primary product –different views concise & full specialist (serials, cartographic, etc.) Print versions –secondary product –different views

A centre of expertise in digital information management Find out more CILIP-BL Committee on AACR Joint Steering Committee for the Revision of the Anglo-American cataloguing Rules (JSC)