Foundations of RDA

Beth ThorntonHead, Serials Cataloging, University of Georgia bethj@uga.edu

Georgia COMOOctober 9, 2013

Bringing it All Together: RDA from Experience

AACR2: foundations

AACR (1967)

Paris Principles (1961)

ISBD (1969)

Earlier codes

• Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) 1998

• Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD) 2009

• Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (FRSAD) 2010

• Statement of International Cataloguing Principles (ICP) 2009

RDA: Foundations

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An entity/relationship model

EntitiesAttributesRelationships

FRBR entities

Group 1 – products of intellectual or artistic endeavor

Group 2 – responsible for the content, production or custodianship of Group 1entities

Group 3 – subjects of Group 1 entities

• Group 1 and group 2 entities too!

1. Work, expression, manifestation, item (WEMI)

2. Person, corporate body

3. Concept, object, event, place

FRBR/RDA Entities

WorkA distinct intellectual or artistic creation

ExpressionIntellectual or artistic realization of a work

ManifestationPhysical embodiment of an expression of a work

ItemSingle exemplar of a manifestation

Group 1 entities

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Work

Expression

Manifestation

Item

Group 1 Entities

The Novel

Original Text Translation

Paper PDF

Copy 1

WORK

EXPRESSION

MANIFESTATION

ITEM

Paper

Copy 1 Copy 2

WorkA distinct intellectual or artistic creation

Choderos Laclos’ Les Liaisons dangereuses1794Play poem choral work

title, form, date, audience, etc.

Attributes

ExpressionIntellectual or artistic realization of a work

Liaisons dangereuses. $l EnglishOther distinguishing characteristics:Illustrated“Director’s cut” Content type: text, spoken word, still image

language, form, date, other distinguishing characteristic, content, etc.

Attributes

ManifestationPhysical embodiment of an expression of a work

Title, statement of responsibility, publisher, date, extent, dimensions, etc.

Attributes

ItemSingle exemplar of a manifestation

The copy of Dangerous Liaisons, published by Penguin, in your library’s collection.

The barcode is an attribute of that item.

Item identifier, provenance, marks, etc.

Attributes

Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind.

The autographed copy of Gone With the Wind in your library’s special collections

A French translation of Gone With the Wind.

The paperback Gone With the Wind published in New York by MacMillian in 1961.

Quick check!

Relationships

Work to Work ◦ successor, supplement, complement, summarization,

adaptation, transformation, imitation Expression to Expression

◦ abridgement, revision, translation, arrangement Manifestation to Manifestation

◦ reproduction (reproduction, reprint, facsimile, etc.)◦ alternate (format, simultaneously released ed.)

Whole / Part Relationships◦ volume of a multivolume manifestation;

aggregate/component Part / Part Relationships

◦ sequential, accompanying, companion

FRBR Group 1 Relationships: Bibliographic / Content

EQUIVALENT

Cataloging Rulescut-off point

Same work New work

DERIVATIVE DESCRIPTIVE

Parody

Revision

Translation

Criticism

Variations or versions

Editions SummaryAbstractDigest

Annotated edition

Expurgatededition

DramatizationNovelization

Freetranslation

Imitations

Evaluation

Review

Casebook

Commentary

Abridgededition

Arrangement

ScreenplayLibrettoIllustrated

edition

Slightmodifications Adaptations

Change of genre

Original

Same style or thematic content

Microformreproduction

Copy

Exactreproduction

Facsimile

Reprint

Simultaneous“publication”

Same Expression

New Expression

Family of Works

New Work B. TillettDec. 2001

Family of works

In: Relationships in the Organization of Knowledge.

Carol Bean and Rebecca Green, eds., Kluwer, 2001 (ISBN: 07923-68134)

From Barbara Tillett’s presentation“FRBR Model”, Feb. 2, 2004

The EndWhew!