AACR3: Resource Description and Access Update for the Continuing Resources Cataloging Committee Midwinter 2005 Jennifer Bowen, ALA Representative to the Joint Steering Committee [email protected]
Jan 23, 2016
AACR3: Resource Description and Access
Update for the Continuing Resources Cataloging Committee Midwinter 2005
Jennifer Bowen, ALA Representative to the Joint Steering Committee
A new edition: Why bother? Simplify
Encourage use as a content standard for metadata schema
Encourage international applicability Provide more consistency where
appropriate Improve collocation
Work/expression level citation/relationships New approach to GMDs
Why bother? Principle-based
Build cataloger’s judgment Founded on international cataloging
principles Encourage applications of FRBR concepts
Strategic Plan for AACR http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/stratplan.html
Targets of Strategic Plan
1. New edition – 2007 New Introductions
• Principles, functions of catalog, conceptual info. Content rules, updated examples Authority control FRBR terms when useful Simplify
• Reduce redundancy• Increase consistency across all types of content
2. Reach out to other communities3. Web-based version of rules
AACR3:Resource Description and Access
Introductions - General principles Part I - Description Part II - Choice of access points Part III – Form of access points
Where Are We Now?
Draft of Part 1 – Description now being reviewed
Constituency Review period now through February 14, 2005.
JSC will discuss Part 1 in April (Chicago)
ALA’s Review of the Draft of Part 1 CC:DA members/liaisons may distribute draft to
those actively involved in the review process: For example:
Serials Section: CRCC committee members CONSER: PCC representative to CC:DA
Draft is not available publicly. CC:DA background document on Part 1:
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/tas/jca/ccda/docs/chair22.pdf
Reorganization of Part 1
Or, What is Happening to Chapter 12?
AACR3 – Part I (Draft) Introduction to Part 1 Section A: General rules Section B: Supplementary rules for types of
content Section C: Supplementary rules for types of
media
No single chapter covers all “Continuing Resources”
AACR3 – Part I (Draft) Introduction to Part I
Scope Structure of the Description Organization of the Rules Applying General and Supplementary Rules Determining the Focus for the Description Resources in an Unpublished Form Options and Omissions
AACR3 – Part I (Draft)Continued Section A: General Rules
A1: General Rules for Description• Preliminary Rules• Rules for each of the 8 ISBD areas• Multimedia Resources• Analytics • Multilevel Descriptions
A2: Resources Issued in Successive Parts A3: Integrating Resources
AACR3 - Part I (Draft)Mode of Issuance Considered a general characteristic of a
resource so belongs in the General Rules Builds on information in Part 1
Introduction (Focus for the Description) Same chapters used for both finite or
continuing resources All resources issued over time
Introduction to Part 1:Focus for the Description
What are you cataloging… Single-part resource? Two or more parts issued simultaneously? Resource issued in successive parts? Integrating resource? Separately titled component part? Assembled collection?
Intro to Part 1: Determine Focus of the Description
Ch. A1: Rule A1.0A1: Choose Sources of Information
Ch. A2: Resources Issued in Successive Parts
Ch. A3: Integrating Resources
Refers to
Refers to
Rules for
Mode of Issuance in Part
1
Rules Related to Mode of Issuance in Part I (Draft) Intro to Part 1: Focus of the Description Section A: General Rules
• A1: General Rules for Description• Preliminary Rules (chief source of information)• Rules for each of the 8 ISBD areas• Multimedia Resources• Analytics • Multilevel Descriptions
A2: Resources Issued in Successive Parts A3: Integrating Resources
AACR3 – Part I (Draft)
Introduction to Part 1 Section A: General rules Section B: Supplementary rules for types
of content Section C: Supplementary rules for types
of media
AACR3 - Part I (Draft) Section B: Content Chapters B1: Text B2: Music B3: Cartographic
Resources B4: Graphics B5: 3-dimensional
Resources B6: Sound B7: Moving Images
AACR3 - Part I (Draft)Section C: Types of Media C1: Print and graphic
media C2: Micrographic
media C3: Tactile media C4: Three-dimensional
media C5: Audio media C6: Projected graphic,
film, video media C7: Digital media
Part 1 (Draft): Some Changes in Cataloging Practice Numbering Area (Area 3) expanded for
use for all materials issued with numbered issues or parts
GMD: indicate content, carrier, or both Technical Description (formerly physical
description): more consistency Physical units vs. presentation units Tables accompanying general rules
Expandable GMDs (Possibilities)
[text : micrographic]
[music : digital]
[moving image : digital]
[text : digital]
Next Steps: More AACR3 Drafts for Review Part II (Draft) – May 2005
Choice of primary/secondary access points for resources
Choice of primary/secondary access points for works/expressions
Part III (Draft) – Nov. 2005 Form of access points Current Ch. 22-25 incorporating authority
control principles, rules on references
AACR3 Timeline (Proposal) Dec. 2004 Draft Pt. 1 May 2005 Draft Pt. 2 Nov. 2005 Draft Pt. 3 Apr. 2006 Finalize Pt. 1-2 Oct. 2006 Finalize Pt. 3 Nov. 2006 Finalize Introductions Dec. 2006 Text to publishers June 2007 Publication release
AACR2(finite integrating resource)
Final AACR2 update 2005
JSC Public Web Site
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/index.html
Thank you!
Questions?