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Change is in the Air:What’s New with RDA & FRBR?
2006 OLC Technical Services Retreat
April 25, 2006
Glenn Patton
Topics for today
Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR)
Functional Requirements for Authority Records (FRAR)
Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records (FRSAR)
IFLA Meeting of Experts on an International Cataloguing Code (IME-ICC)
Resource Description and Access (RDA)
Functional Requirements for
Bibliographic Records
What FRBR Is & Isn’t?
It isn’t a standard – So, it’s not something to implement
It’s a conceptual model – It helps us think about current standards and
practices It’s a tool
It clarifies how catalogs should function
Four User Tasks
Find Identify Select Obtain
And, maybe a fifth:And, maybe a fifth: Navigate
Used by permission of
William Denton
FRBR Working Group activities Working Group on Aggregates
Working Group on the Expression Entity
Working Group on FRBR/CRM Dialogue
Survey of System Vendors
Working Group on Aggregates New working group chaired by Ed O’Neill
Looking at issues related to: collections, selections, anthologies... augmentations series journals integrating resources multipart monographs
Working Group on the Expression Entity Proposal to refine the description of
Expression in Section 3.2.2 of FRBR Problematic statement:
“Strictly speaking, any change in intellectual or artistic content constitutes a change in expression.”
Working Group on FRBR/CRM Dialogue Joint IFLA Cataloguing Section/ICM
International Committee for Documentation project
Harmonizing FRBR bibliographic model with the CRM cultural heritage information model
Expressing FRBR entity-relationship model as an object-oriented model
System Vendor Survey
70 questionnaires;12 responses
67% keep up to date with FRBR activities; 41% actively participate
System Vendor Survey
50% said FRBR has had no impact on current products
67% said FRBR has some impact on product development
System Vendor Survey
67% have customers inquiring about or asking for FRBR support
84% said “valuable conceptual tool” or “useful practical tool
FRBR in use
OCLC’s Open WorldCat
FRBR in use
OCLC’s FirstSearch Pilot
FRBR resources
IFLA FBR Review Grouphttp://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/wgfrbr/wgfrbr.htm
FRBR Blog http://www.frbr.org/
Tillett, Barbara. “What is FRBR?: A Conceptual Model for the Bibliographic Universe.” 2004. Available at http://www.loc.gov/cds/downloads/FRBR.PDF
Maurer, Margaret. “Before You Attend the Workshop: FRBR and the Future,” TechKNOW 10, no. 4 (March 2004). Available at http://www.library.kent.edu/files/TechKNOWMarch2004.pdf
Functional Requirements for
Authority Records
FRAR
FRBR – “the need to extend the model … to cover authority data”
Working group established in 1998 Worldwide review completed in October 2005 Final editing of functional requirements in
process
known by
Bibliographic
Entities
Names and/or
Identifiers
Controlled Access Points
basis for
FRAR resources
Patton, Glenn. “FRAR: Extending FRBR Concepts to Authority Data.” 2005. Available at: http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla71/papers/014e-Patton.pdf
The functional requirements document as made available for worldwide review: http://www.ifla.org/VII/d4/wg-franar.htm
Functional Requirements for Subject Authority
Records
FRSAR
A further extension of FRBR into the area of subject access
Both subject thesauri and classification Working group chaired by Marcia Zeng (Kent
State University), Maja Žumer (University of Ljubljana) and Athena Salaba (Kent State University)
http://www.ifla.org/VII/s29/wgfrsar.htm
FRSAR terms of reference
Build a conceptual model of Group 3 entities within the FRBR framework
Provide a clearly defined, structured frame of reference for relating the data that are recorded in subject authority records to the needs of the users of those records
Assist in an assessment of the potential for international sharing and use of subject authority data both within the library sector and beyond
IFLA Meeting of Experts on an International
Cataloguing Code
IFLA Meeting of Experts on an International Cataloguing Code “A code for code makers” Meetings of Experts
Frankfurt (2003) Buenos Aires (2004) Cairo (2005) Seoul (2006) Durban (2007)
http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/index.htm#IME-ICC
Resource Description and Access
RDA
Joint Steering Committee meeting this week, Ottawa, Ontario
Agenda: Review of comments on Part I (Resource
Description) Initial Review of Part II (Relationships)
Part I — Resource Description
Introduction to part I
Chapter 1. General guidelines on resource description
Chapter 2. Identification of the resource
Chapter 3. Technical description
Chapter 4. Content description
Chapter 5. Information on terms of availability, etc.
Chapter 6. Item-specific information
Part II — Relationships
Introduction to part II
Chapter 7. General guidelines on reflecting relationships
Chapter 8. Access points reflecting relationships to persons, families, and corporate bodies
Chapter 9. Citations for related works, etc.
Chapter 10. Special instructions for particular types of works
Part III - Access Point Control Introduction to part IIIChapter 11. General guidelines on access point
controlChapter 12. Names of personsChapter 13. Names of familiesChapter 14. Names of corporate bodiesChapter 15. Names of placesChapter 16. Citations for works, etc.Chapter 17. Other information used in access point
control
Appendices, etc.
Appendix A. Capitalization
Appendix B. Abbreviations
Appendix C. Initial articles
Appendix D. Presentation of descriptive data
Appendix E. Presentation of access point control data
Glossary
Index
RDA Timeline
May 2005-July 2005: Development of prospectus Oct. 2005-April. 2006: Completion of draft of part I,
and constituency review May 2006-Sept. 2006: Completion of draft of part II,
and constituency review Oct. 2006-Apr. 2007: Completion of draft of part III,
and constituency review May 2007-Sept. 2007: Completion of General
Introduction, Appendices, and Glossary 2008: Publication
Changes in “the Process”
Drafts openly available for review and comment
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/rda.html
Constituent comments also available
ALA: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/tas/jca/ccda/docs/5rda-part1-alaresp.pdf
CILIP: http://www.slainte.org.uk/aacr/pubs/5rda-part1-cilipresp.pdf
RDA and ONIX?
Joint initiative announced April 10:
“… to develop a framework for categorizing resources in all media that will support the needs of both libraries and the publishing industry and will facilitate the transfer and use of resource description data across the two communities.”
RDA information
On the JSC website:
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/rda.html
On the CC:DA website:http://www.libraries.psu.edu/tas/jca/ccda/index.html
ALCTS Forum on RDA:Saturday, June 24th, 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. Morial Convention Center, Room 295/296
