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Introduction to RDA Resource Description and Access
Meghan Finch Digital Assets Librarian | Oakland University Oakland County Follett Destiny User Group Meeting April 26, 2013
Currently: Oakland University Digital Assets Librarian
Formerly: Wayne State University Metadata Librarian
Metadata Digital Collections
Institutional repository
MARC21
RDA
Trai
ning
XSLT
XML
Crosswalking
Data
AACR2
Project management
Archives
Electronic resource management
serials
If my job were a word cloud
Meghan Finch
What is RDA?
Stands for “Resource Description and Access”
Replaces Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, Revision 2 (AACR2)
So, it’s a content standard
Went live (Library of Congress) March 31, 2013
Why is RDA ?
Timeline of RDA
2004
Work on AACR3 starts
2005
AACR3 becomes RDA
June 2010
RDA Toolkit is released
2011
LoC RDA Test results
June 2011
LoC delays RDA implementation, pending changes
March 2013
LoC begins using RDA
9 years from conception to implementation
RDA is univerisal Photo by [Jim] - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License http://www.flickr.com/photos/james_scott/2771108046/
RDA works with existing Technology Photo by markvall - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License http://www.flickr.com/photos/mvallius/4496711765/
RDA is more than books Photo by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasamarshall/5090762796/
Key changes Rule of 3 no longer applies
GMD is gone too. No more [electronic resource]
Content, Carrier, & Media are the new GMD
No more abbreviations (farewell, Dept. of…)
Take what you see, but also cataloger’s judgment Talking about Relationships more via FRBR data model
[GMD] replaced by Content, Media, Carrier
Instead of… 245 10 $a Snoopy come home $h [videorecording] / $c
This 245 10 $a Snoopy come home / $c
336 ## two-dimensional moving image $2 rdacontent 337 ## video $2 rdamedia 338 ## videodisc $2 rdacarrier
No more abbreviations
Instead of… 710 2# $a Dept. of State. Agriculture.
This 710 2# $a Department of State. Agriculture.
Instead of… 245 10 $a All teh [sic] pretty flowers
246 3# $a All the pretty flowers
This 245 10 $a All teh pretty flowers
246 1# $i Title should read: $a All the pretty flowers
Take what you see
Instead of… 245 10 $a Research methods in linguistics
This 245 10 $a Research Methods in LINGUISTICS
Take what you see: 264
264 #0 Production
264 #1 Publication
264 #2 Distribution
264 #3 Manufacture
264 #4 Copyright notice date
Rule of 3 Instead of… 245 00 $a Second growth : $b community economic development in rural British Columbia / $c Sean Markey … [et al.].
This 245 10 $a Second growth : $b community economic development in rural British Columbia / $c Sean Markey, John T. Pierce, Kelly Vodden, and Mark Roseland.
OR this 245 00 $a Second growth : $b community economic development in rural British Columbia / $c Sean Markey [and 3 others]
You can include 7xx fields for all authors, or only include a 1xx for the first author. Cataloger’s Judgment.
Relationships
Photo by the FRBR Blog - http://www.frbr.org/
Relationships 3 ways of doing it: authorized access point 110 2# $a Society of Linguistics $e author Structured description 776 08 $i Also issued as $t Health statistics Unstructured description 500 ## $a Translation of the author's novel Digital fortress.
New Authority fields 046 - Special Coded Dates (R)
368 - Other Attributes of Person or
Corporate Body (R)
370 - Associated Place (R)
371 - Address (R)
372 - Field of Activity (R)
373 - Associated Group (R)
374 - Occupation (R)
375 - Gender (R)
376 - Family Information (R)
378 - Fuller Form of Personal Name (NR)
MARC Changes New fields for work and expression 336 - Content Type (R) 377 - Associated Language (R) 380 - Form of Work (R) 381 - Other Distinguishing Characteristics of Work or Expression (R) 382 - Medium of Performance (R) 383 - Numeric Designation of Musical Work (R) 384 - Key (NR)
Lots of new 3xx fields 336 – Content Type (R) 337 – Media Type (R) 338 – Carrier Type (R) 344 – Sound Characteristics (R) 345 – Projection Characteristics of Moving Image (R) 346 – Video Characteristics (R) 347 – Digital File Characteristics (R)
For Trainers
Don’t reinvent the wheel
– Library of Congress RDA Training Materials http://tinyurl.com/lcrdatraining
– Library of Congress Train the Trainer webinars http://tinyurl.com/rdatraintrainer
– NACO RDA Training Materials http://tinyurl.com/rdanacotraining
– Adam Schiff (University of Washington)’s AACR2 / RDA comparisons http://faculty.washington.edu/aschiff/
Policy-makers
Watch out for
– 264
– 33x
– All things related to authority records
To the future Bibliographic Framework – Reports from participants in the RDA test
indicated that MARC21 limited RDA and libraries’ ability to implement it fully
May 2011
Library of Congress announces committee to investigate new bibliographic framework
May 2013
Library of Congress announces partnership with Zepheira, demos intended RDF-based framework
