1. RDA and Linked Data Steve Henry University of Maryland March 2, 2013

2. Encoding RDA Data One more time: RDA is a content standard not a display standard ▫It is also not an encoding standard Examples so far have shown RDA in a MARC environment But RDA is also designed to be flexible. ▫Can be encoded in MODS, Dublin Core, etc…. ▫…and in RDF

4. RDF-Resource Description Framework RDF is a Web standard for describing any thing, concept, or relationship Each thing, concept, and relationship is represented by a globally unique URI Relationships between these entities are represented by RDA triples in the form: subject, predicate, object For example…

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6. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97075604 http://rdvocab.info/roles/ composer http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79107741

9. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97075604 http://rdvocab.info/roles/ composer http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79107741

12. Linked Data A set of best practices for ▫Sharing data ▫On the Web ▫In machine-readable form Four rules ▫Provide a URI ▫Make the URI an HTTP URL ▫Provide interesting information ▫Link to other URIs so more things can be discovered

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21. BIBFRAME Full name: Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative Initiative of the Library of Congress Essentially a linked data model for library bibliographic data Potential replacement/supplement for MARC

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23. BIBFRAME Each instance gets a URI Relationships between works, instances, authorities, places, recorded Needs to be harmonized with FRBR— Expressions? ▫FRBR seen as an abstract model ▫BIBFRAME is a Web implementation

24. BIBFRAME Timeline May 2011: Initiative announced May 2012. Zepheira contracted Fall 2012. Use cases tested November 2012. Bibliographic Framework as a Web of Data (high-level model) October and December 2012. Face-to-face meetings with early experimenters

25. Early Experimenters British Library Deutsche National Bibliotek DNB George Washington University Library National Library of Medicine Princeton Library

26. Bibliography https://delicious.com/spurioso/tag_bundle/Lin kedDatahttps://delicious.com/spurioso/tag_bundle/Lin kedData Great introductory video! ▫http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x_xzT5eF5Qhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x_xzT5eF5Q http://linkeddata.org/ http://bibframe.org/ http://listserv.loc.gov/listarch/bibframe.html http://rdvocab.info/

28. RDA MDR Discovery BIBFRAME Linked Data

30. Rule of Three

31. Attributes for Persons

34. Medium of Performance

39. Talk to vendors ▫Show them MDR ▫Ask them what their plans are for L.D. Follow BIBFRAME development ▫Bibframe.org ▫bibframe@listserv.loc.gov Look for RDA records in your discovery tools ▫Think about search strategies ▫Ask a cataloger for help! Link your data ▫Discographies, bibliographies, thematic catalogs ▫Digital Humanities projects