Setting a new standard Resource Description and Access Deirdre Kiorgaard 18 September 2006

Outline Why a new standard? Models behind RDA Issues in developing RDA Structure & content of RDA Who’s responsible Timeline for development & implementation

AACR “ the most widely-used standard for descriptive cataloguing in the English-speaking world” –1967 – AACR 1 st ed. –1978 –1988 –1998 –2002

Where does RDA fit? Resource description AACR RDA, CCO, RAD … Subject description LCSH, PRECIS, thesauri … Classification DDC, LCC, UDC … Content standardsEncoding/Exchange/ Interoperability FRBR FRAR MARC21, UNIMARC, MODS, MARCXML … Dublin Core, AGLS, EAD, TEI, ONIX OAI, RDF, XML Conceptual models Identifiers ISBN, ISSN, BICI, PIs …

Beyond MARC International Conference on the Principles & Future Development of AACR (1997) Logical structure of AACR2 What is a work? Access points for works Bibliographic relationships AACR2 & catalogue production Content versus carrier Issues related to seriality

Dec Draft of Part I of AACR3 Dec – Draft of Part I of Resource Description and Access Towards RDA

Resource Description and Access Online resources & resource discovery services Reducing the costs of creating resource descriptions Creating richer resource descriptions “Resource Description and Access is a new standard for description and access designed for the digital world.”

Concepts underlying RDA FRBR: –Functional Requirements of Bibliographic Records FRAR –Functional Requirements of Authority Records Statement of International Cataloguing Principles – IME-ICC: International Meetings of Experts for an International Cataloguing Code Cataloguing Cultural Objects; Describing Archives; Rules for Archival Description

RDA & other standards Replacing ISBD areas & punctuation Replacing material designations – html#chair-10http:// html#chair-10 MARC

Issues in developing RDA Backwards compatibility “Take what you see” Internationalisation and other resource description communities Persistent Identifiers and URLs

RDA Structure General Introduction Part A: Resource Description Part B: Access Point Control Appendices Glossary Index General Introduction Part I: Description Part II: Headings, Uniform titles & References Appendices Index AACR Structure

Part A: Resource Description Introduction to part A 1.General guidelines on resource description 2.Identification of the resource (Identify) 3.Technical (or carrier) description (Select) 4.Content description (Select) 5.Acquisition and access information (Obtain) 6.Related resources 7.Persons, families, and corporate bodies associated with a resource

Part B: Access point control Introduction to part B 8. General guidelines on access point control 9. Access points for persons 10. Access points for families 11. Access points for corporate bodies 12. Access points for places 13. Access points for works, etc. 14. Other information used in access point control

Appendices Appendix A. Capitalization Appendix B. Abbreviations Appendix C. Initial articles Appendix D. Presentation of data Appendix E. Presentation of access point control data Glossary Index

Who’s responsible? Committee of Principals AACR Fund Trustees/ Co-Publishers Joint Steering Committee... ALA CC:DA ACOCBLCCCCILIPLC

Timeline June 2006: Issue draft of 2nd part of Part A Dec. 2006: Issue draft of Part B June 2007: Issue General Introduction, Appendices, and Glossary Dec. 2007: Finalise all text 2008: Publish RDA 2008? Implementation ?

Implementation British Library Library and Archives Canada Library of Congress National Library of Australia National library commitment Training, Documentation, Policy development

JSC outreach Library administrators Library educators System vendors Other resource description communities National and international programs IFLA and other rule-making bodies

ACOC ACOC website /acoc.htmlhttp:// /acoc.html

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