1. Cambridge University Library RDA - Hugh Taylor, 7 Jan 09 RDA: Past, Present, Future Hugh Taylor CILIP Representative, Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA

2. Cambridge University Library RDA - Hugh Taylor, 7 Jan 09 RDA Quick Facts New content standard intended to replace AACR2 Goes further in what it covers Web-based product Full draft (as PDFs) currently out for worldwide review

3. Cambridge University Library RDA - Hugh Taylor, 7 Jan 09 RDA – the past

4. Cambridge University Library RDA - Hugh Taylor, 7 Jan 09 RDA – the background Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules - currently 2nd edition, 2002 revision Revisions the responsibility of the Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA (JSC) Used by libraries world-wide both in English and in translation

5. Cambridge University Library RDA - Hugh Taylor, 7 Jan 09 RDA – the background Toronto 1997 conference on Principles and Future Development of AACR Some of the problems with AACR2 –Designed for the card catalogue –Case-based and logically inconsistent –Class of materials arrangement is not extensible –Authority control not handled well

6. Cambridge University Library RDA - Hugh Taylor, 7 Jan 09 Goals for RDA A new standard for resource description and access –Designed for the digital world –Optimised for use as an online product –Description and access of all resources –All types of content and media –Resulting records usable in the digital environment –Part of the new information architecture

7. Cambridge University Library RDA - Hugh Taylor, 7 Jan 09 Goals for RDA A consistent, flexible, and extensible framework Compatible with internationally established principles, models and standards Primarily for use in libraries, but also adaptable across many information communities worldwide

8. Cambridge University Library RDA - Hugh Taylor, 7 Jan 09 RDA Foundations Support FRBR user tasks –Find, Identify, Select, Obtain FRAD user tasks –Find, Identify, Contextualize, Justify IME ICC statement Principle of representation –Record elements based on how resource represents itself

9. Cambridge University Library RDA - Hugh Taylor, 7 Jan 09 RDA – the present

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11. Cambridge University Library RDA - Hugh Taylor, 7 Jan 09 RDA development process Open process during development –Editor drafts chapters for review by JSC –Editor revises chapters for public review –JSC considers comments and requests changes to text by the Editor –Editor revises draft text –Also JSC & constituency proposals

12. Cambridge University Library RDA - Hugh Taylor, 7 Jan 09 RDA structure Not tied to any specific record structure Alignment with the FRBR and FRAD models Adaptable and extensible Two main parts –Attributes of the FRBR entities –Relationships between the entities

13. Cambridge University Library RDA - Hugh Taylor, 7 Jan 09 RDA, ISBD, MARC 21 AACR2 Part I was organized around ISBD areas RDA is a content standard - not a display or encoding standard ISBD display (including punctuation) is in an appendix MARC 21 is one possible carrier for RDA data –RDA/MARC Working Group formed to deal with changes to MARC 21 –But MARC is unlikely to be best long-term approach to encoding data (this isn’t RDA-specific…)

14. Cambridge University Library RDA - Hugh Taylor, 7 Jan 09 RDA – where are we right now? Full draft (as PDFs) released for public review Nov 2008 JSC will consider comments at March meeting Expect that RDA content for first release will be finalised by end of June But publishers hadn’t made sufficient progress with product development to put full draft in pre-release version Implementation likely in 2010

15. Cambridge University Library RDA - Hugh Taylor, 7 Jan 09 RDA – the future

16. Cambridge University Library RDA - Hugh Taylor, 7 Jan 09 Implementation LC/NLM/NAL: Decision to implement RDA will be based upon evaluation of its utility within the library and information environment –Period of testing and evaluation following the release of RDA - results will be disseminated BL, LAC, NLA will also conduct testing prior to implementation and disseminate their results ALA has set up an Implementation Task Force BL has similar (and has staff member dedicated to this)

17. Cambridge University Library RDA - Hugh Taylor, 7 Jan 09 Financial stuff Cost factors –Year on year costs of RDA –Lifespan costs of AACR Licensing and pricing –Finding the right model –An existing model in LIS marketplace? –Repay investment in RDA development When will we know? –More information needed from ALA Publishing

18. Cambridge University Library RDA - Hugh Taylor, 7 Jan 09 Other communities JSC has already been working with other metadata communities –MARC (of course) –ONIX (publishers) –Dublin Core, IEEE/LOM, Semantic Web DCMI/RDA Task Group was formed in 2007 and is continuing work on RDA Vocabularies – this is very important for the future use of RDA

19. Cambridge University Library RDA - Hugh Taylor, 7 Jan 09 Everything is connected at the community (human)… …and technical (Semantic Web) levels (And within RDA itself, there’s a strong emphasis on “relationships”)

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22. Cambridge University Library RDA - Hugh Taylor, 7 Jan 09 Looking further ahead After publication CoP/JSC will review –Systems for content updating –Systems for product enhancement –Governance of RDA –Future business model

23. Cambridge University Library RDA - Hugh Taylor, 7 Jan 09 References RDA website http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/rda.html Strategic plan http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/stratplan.html RDA Prospectus http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/jsc/rdaprospectus.html Objectives and principles http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/jsc/docs/5rda-objectivesrev2.pdf International Cataloguing Principles http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/icc/imeicc-statement_of_principles-2008.pdf FRBR - http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr/frbr.pdf http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr/frbr.pdf FRAD - http://www.ifla.org/VII/d4/franar-conceptual-model-2ndreview.pdf http://www.ifla.org/VII/d4/franar-conceptual-model-2ndreview.pdf