MOAR RDA FOR SYSTEMS

FOLKS

Presentation at Code4Lib North 2013

Alison Hitchens, Cataloguing & Metadata Librarian,

University of WaterlooImage courtesy of Jennifer Young

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RDA is…

Replacing AACR2 as the content guidelines for bibliographic & authority data to support resource discovery

Based on IFLA’s entity-relationship models “Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records” and “Functional Requirements for Authority Data”Focused on the use of the data to find,

identify, select, obtain, clarify, understand

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RDA is not… An encoding standard A display standard

0.4.2.3 Flexibility: The data should function independently of the format, medium, or system used to store or communicate the data. They should be amenable to use in a variety of environments.

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Implications for MARC

New & revised fields

Hybrid records

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Implications for Search & Display & Sort & RIS export etc.

New fields and subfields to index & displayPay special attention to the 264 field for

publication, distribution, manufacture, copyright information

New fields to replace the general material designation (GMD)Do you currently use the GMD to identify

resource type?

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MARC 264

1st indicator 2nd indicator

blank=NA/No info/Earliest

2=Intervening

3=Current/latest

0=production

1=publication

2=distribution

3=manufacture

4=copyright notice date

All of these fields can contain dates

264 31 $3 2005- $a Boca Raton : $b CRC Press264 #1 $a New York : $b Springer, $c 1999-264 #4 $c ©1998-

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New fields: 336, 337, 338

336 $a text $2 rdacontent

337 $a computer $2 rdamedia

338 $a online resource $2 rdacarrier

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Relationship Designators Not a new MARC subfield but not often in

use pre-RDA Not mandatory but encouraged in RDA

700 1# $a Rizki, Mateen M., $e editor of compilation

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Hybrid Records“Hybrid record. A non-RDA bibliographic record … to which RDA cataloging elements have been added, either manually or via machine manipulation [emphasis added]”

- from “Report of the PCC Post-Implementation Hybrid Bibliographic Records Guidelines Task Group”

Photo credit: Charlie Kellogghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/papa_charliegeorge/3460363489/

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Some Machine Conversion Examples from the Report

245: Remove the General Material Designation (GMD)

245 subfield c: Remove ellipses and change Latin abbreviation (“… [et al.]” becomes “[and others]”)

300: Spell out abbreviations and change Latin abbreviations to English equivalents

336, 337, & 338: Add these fields, including subfields a, b & 2

Image credit: quisnovus http://www.flickr.com/photos/quisnovus/5458166433/

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Implications for linked data

Metadata Registry

RDA in RDF

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Metadata Registry

RDA Vocabularies can be found in the Open Metadata Registry

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RDA in RDF at BNF!

Machine-readable view:http://data.bnf.fr/11952682/alexandre_dumas_le_comte_de_monte-cristo/rdf.xml

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Some Issues Should we have multiple pieces of

information in one element? Extent: 300 pages Authorized access point for a work: Hemingway, Ernest,

1899–1961. Sun also rises

We need to use more identifiers Do we need to “dumb-down” library data? RDA Toolkit is subscription based not open Understanding linked data

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#BIBFRAME: where is RDA?

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LC’s Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative

Transitioning from MARC21 to more Web-based, linked data friendly format

Main classes:Creative workInstanceAuthorityAnnotation

Figure 5 from “Bibliographic Framework as a Web of Data”

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Some Resources ALCTS “Webinar Archive” http://

www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/past/webinar “BIBFRAME.ORG New Bibliographic Framework” http://bibframe.org/ IFLA Study Group on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records.

Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records: Final Report. Munich: KG. Saur, 1998 http://www.ifla.org/files/assets/cataloguing/frbr/frbr.pdf

Library of Congress “Bibliographic Framework Initiative” http://www.loc.gov/bibframe/

Library of Congress “RDA in MARC” http://www.loc.gov/marc/RDAinMARC.html

Library of Congress “Resource Description and Access (RDA): Information and Resources in Preparation for RDA” http://www.loc.gov/aba/rda/index.html

Program for Cooperative Cataloging “Report of the PCC Post-Implementation Hybrid Bibliographic Records Guidelines Task Group” October 2012 http://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/rda/RDA%20Task%20groups%20and%20charges/PCC-Hybrid-Bib-Rec-Guidelines-TG-Report.docx

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Contact

Alison Hitchens

Cataloguing & Metadata Librarian

University of Waterloo Library

ahitchen@uwaterloo.ca

@ahitchens