Resource Description and Access (RDA) information session Deirdre Kiorgaard Australian Committee on Cataloguing Representative to the Joint Steering Committee for the Development of RDA AGLIN RDA information session + Q&A 2 November 2009

AACR to RDA

AACR is a robust standard, but … ‘Class of materials’ approach is no longer valid Need for principles-based instructions Need for extensibility Designed for the card catalogue not digital world Data needs to be usable in the web environment

Brave new world?  The power of the search engine –New search algorithms, relevance ranking, synonym control … Image of Earth from space on website by Liz Strauss ‐ blog.com/2007/09/

Next generation catalogues tagging reviews synonym control links full text table of contents Seattle Public Library” by Jeff Maurone

The (not so) secret life of catalogue data (1) “metadata increasingly appears farther and farther away from its original context” Shreeves, Riley and Milewicz (2006).  Shared library databases  Digitisation projects  Institutional repositories

The (not so) secret life of catalogue data (2)  The GLAM sector Galleries, libraries, archives and museums  The Internet Catalogue records have jumped the fence  Leading to: Services based on data aggregations Sharing of library data with other sectors Exposure of library data to the internet

What RDA is  A new standard to replace AACR  Designed for the digital world –Instructions will be a Web tool –Instructions cover description of digital resources –Resulting records to be used in web environment  Broader scope –Includes ‘authorities’  Better coverage of resource types –Online resources, visual resources

What RDA isn’t  Not a replacement for MARC21 or the ILMS –Not an encoding standard or library system  Not a panacea for every ill afflicting the catalogue, but … –It will enable improved navigation of the catalogue and improved catalogue displays (more organised, less cluttered)  Not (necessarily) simplified cataloguing, but.. –It will offer the potential of improved efficiency of data creation & maintenance

Advantages of RDA  Clearly defined element set –better granularity, improved mapping to other schema, e.g. Dublin Core, ISBD, MODS/MADS, MARC21  Greater emphasis on relationships –Better navigation and displays  Better interoperability - common vocabularies –Content type, carrier type, media type; Relationship designators; Encoding formats, etc. –Making vocabularies accessible  RDA and the semantic web

Tentative Timeline 2009 June July - August September June? +3 months Mid 2011 Final text submitted to ALA Publishing Keying of Final text into XML Product development (Alpha testing; Proofreading; Beta testing using Final text; bug fixes) Release of RDA Prep. period for US National libraries testing US National libraries formal testing US National libraries formal assessment Earliest date for implementation

Preparing for RDA ACOC & the National Library will help prepare Australian libraries with information and advice on:  Training  Documentation (transitional materials plus updates to LA manuals and standards)  MARC changes  Library system changes (data conversions, exchange of records)

Learning about … FRBR Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records ACOC seminar FRBR: Things You Should Know, but were afraid to ask FRBR Bibliography FRBR and FRAD as implemented in RDA _in_RDA.ppt Resource Description and Access Paper presented at Online 2009 – useful for examples of FRBR in databases, library systems and catalogues

JSC site Easy to read article on Changing to RDA RDA Prospectus Draft of RDA Changes to AACR2 Instructions Using RDA with bibliographic and authority records Learning about … RDA

Learning about … RDA in MARC21 Mappings in RDA : RDA to Bibliographic format (Appendix D), Authority Format (Appendix E). MODS->RDA mapping and MADS->RDA mapping and Presentation to ALA July Proposals and discussion papers Information on approved changes for vendors

Keeping up to date  Information from US national libraries testing /  Australian information FAQ Upcoming presentations & Training courses RDA-AUST discussion list Australian implementation ACOC conferences

RDA product  Information on the product: org/ org/  Sample RDA screens are available at: org/rda_samples/rda_samples.html. org/rda_samples/rda_samples.html

RDA as a cataloguing tool  Interactive, online  Integrated with policies and processes  Sample – RDA instructions

Thank you Montage of shelves etc by Brungrrl