RDA : the Inside Story The Genesis OLA, February 2, 2008 Ingrid Parent Library and Archives Canada.

RDA : the Inside StoryThe Genesis

OLA, February 2, 2008

Ingrid Parent Library and Archives Canada

Overview

Why a new standard? RDA principles and goals Who develops and supports RDA? Timeline

From Panizzi’s rules to AACR2

1841: Panizzi’s rules for the British Museum 1876: Cutter’s rules 1902-1949: Separate U.S. and U.K. rules 1961: Lubetsky, IFLA and “Paris Principles” 1967: AACR, North American/UK differences 1969: IFLA and International Standard

Bibliographic Description 1978: AACR2

AACR2 1978 1988 1998 2002

1997 International Conference on the Principles & Future Development of AACR, Toronto

Worldwide experts identified issues: Principles Content vs. carrier Logical structure of AACR2 Seriality Internationalization

FRBR

Published by IFLA in 1998 Reinforces basic objectives of catalogues and importance of relationships for users to carry

out basic tasks – find, identify, select, obtain Structure allows collocation at Work/Expression level Conceptual model of entities, relationships and attributes

[FRBR: Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr/frbr.pdf]

IME ICC IFLA updates and reaffirms Paris Principles,

2003-2007 series of regional meetings - IFLA Meeting of

Experts on an International Cataloguing Code increase the ability to share cataloguing

worldwide by promoting standards develop “Statement of International

Cataloguing Principles”

New standard: why?

Align with conceptual models (FRBR, FRAD) to build well-formed metadata Encourage application of FRBR/FRAD Encourage use as a content standard for metadata

schema Encourage international applicability Address current problems

Provide more consistency Principle-based

To guide cataloguer’s judgment

[FRAD: Functional Requirements for Authority Data http://www.ifla.org/VII/d4/FRANAR-ConceptualModel-2ndReview.pdf]

New Cataloguing Environment

Need to provide access to a wider range of information carriers: wider depth & complexity of content

Metadata (bibliographic information) created by a wider range of personnel in and outside libraries (authors, administrators, cataloguers, computers, publishers, etc.)

Descriptive data in digital form (ONIX, etc.)

RDA Objectives and Principles Objectives

Responsiveness to user needs Cost efficiency Flexibility Continuity

Principles Based on IME ICC draft statement of principles:

Differentiation, Sufficiency, Relationships, etc. Draft IME ICC statement:

http://www.loc.gov/loc/ifla/imeicc/pdf/statement-draft3_apr06cleancopy.pdf

Strategic PlanGoals for RDA

A new standard for resource description and access Designed for the digital environment

Description and access of all digital and analog resources

Resulting descriptions usable in digital environment (Web-based catalogues and resource discovery services)

Web-based tool paper also available

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/stratplan.html

RDA will be … “A multinational content standard providing

bibliographic description and access for the variety of media and formats collected by libraries today”

Designed to be used in all language communities Intend to remove English-bias

MARC 21

Replacement of GMD Other changes to accommodate new elements MARBI discussion paper – January 2008

http://www.loc.gov/marc/marbi/2008/2008-dp04.html

MARBI proposals – June 2008

RDA and DC (Dublin Core) “Data Modeling Meeting” - London 2007

development of an RDA Element Vocabulary

development of an RDA Dublin Core Application Profile based on FRBR and FRAD

identification of RDA Value Vocabularies for Semantic Web

Who’s developing and supporting RDA?

Committee of

Principals

AACR FundTrustees/

Co-Publishers

Joint SteeringCommittee ...

ALACC:DA

ACOC BL CCC CILIP LC

The supporting cast

JSC constituencies Canada – Canadian Committee on Cataloguing

Working Groups – Examples, Appendices, etc.

Outreach Group Other communities (e.g., DC, MARC) Other rule making bodies

RDA timeline Dec. 07-Mar. 2008: Review of access

point control chapters July-Sept. 2008: Review of complete

draft of RDA Dec. 2008: RDA text finalised early 2009: Release of RDA late 2009: Implementation