A centre of expertise in digital information management UKOLN is supported by: RDA: the state of play Ann Chapman Chair of CILIP/BL Committee on AACR/RDA UKOLN Policy and Advice Team
A centre of expertise in digital information management RDA Remit New work not further revision of AACR Where possible –Rules cover all resource types –Use FRBR terms –Internationalisation –Revision of examples –Separation of content and carrier terms Collaboration with other communities
A centre of expertise in digital information management Who is involved? UK 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 Working groups International, specific tasks GMD/SMD (on content & carrier terms) RDA/ONIX Initiative Two Examples Working Groups –Thorough review of existing examples –‘Omit / replace’ and ‘New’
A centre of expertise in digital information management RDA Outline Part 1 Description (2005 – 2007) Part 2 Access Point Control (draft due Dec. 2007) Appendices (in preparation) Capitalization, Abbreviations, Initial articles Record syntaxes for descriptive data Record syntaxes for access point control data Glossary, Index
A centre of expertise in digital information management Part A: Description Text agreed date Out for review – expected agreement date Ch.1 General guidelines (autumn 2006) Ch.2 Resource identification (autumn 2006) Ch.3 Carrier (autumn 2007) Ch.4 Content (autumn 2006 / autumn 2007) Ch.5 Acquisition and access (autumn 2006) Ch.6 Persons, families and corporate bodies associated with a resource (autumn 2007) Ch.7 Related resources (autumn 2007)
A centre of expertise in digital information management Part B: Access Point Control To be issued December 2007 –Ch.8 Guidelines on access point control –Ch.9 Persons –Ch.10 Families –Ch.11 Corporate bodies –Ch.12 Places –Ch.13 Works, expressions, manifestations and items
A centre of expertise in digital information management Appendices A Capitalization B Abbreviations C Initial articles D Record syntaxes for descriptive data E Record syntaxes for access point control data Plus Glossary Index
A centre of expertise in digital information management Plus ….. Part C – instructions on recording ‘data about data’ – under discussion Mappings –RDA to FRBR –RDA to MARC 21 –RDA to DCMI Elements
A centre of expertise in digital information management RDA – what will it be? Online resource – release 2009 –primary product –different views concise & full specialist (serials, cartographic, etc.) Print versions – under discussion –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)