Keeping Libraries Relevant in the Semantic Webkonferans.rdaturkiye.org/Barbara_Tillett.pdfKeeping Libraries Relevant in the Semantic Web: RDA, VIAF, and the new Bibliographic Framework

Barbara B. Tillett, Ph.D.Chair, Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA and

Former Chief, Policy & Standards Division, Library of Congress

Keeping Libraries Relevant in the Semantic Web: RDA, VIAF, and the new Bibliographic Framework

19April2013 Istanbul, Turkey

Technical Developments

FRBR-based systems since 1997 Dublin Core Abstract Model (FRBR

foundation) FRBR as conceptual basis for cataloging

Database/format ScenariosBib record (flat-file)

Lee, T. B.Cataloguing has a future

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Author:

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Subject:

Lee, T. B.

Cataloguing has a future

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Metadata

Donated by the author

Name authority record

Name:

Subject authority record

Identifier: …

Label:Identifier: …

Bib record (description)

Item information

Manifestation information

Expression information

Work informationFRBR record

RDA content type registry

Label:Identifier: …

Spoken word

RDA element registry

RDA carrier type registry

Future record

ONIX

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Subject:Lee, T. B.

Lectures on metadata

Audio disc

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Donated by the author

Name authority record

Name:

Subject authority record

Identifier: …

Label:Identifier: …

Item information

Manifestation information

Expression information

Work information

RDA content type registry

Label:Identifier: …

Spoken wordRDA carrier type registry

Linked Data

Work Title: Lectures on metadata

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Carrier type:Lectures on metadata

Package for displaysFuture display

Lee, T. B.

Spoken word

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Structures for Descriptions

100 10 Shakespeare245 01 Hamlet260 Mexico City

Hamlet

México City2008

English

Spanish

French

German

Shakespeare

Library of CongressCopy 1Green leather binding

Romeo andJuliet

Stoppard

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

Movies…

Identifiers

Elements and controlled vocabulariesEasy display of terms in languages preferred

by the user (linked through shared URIs –Universal Resource Identifiers)

RDA Element Set and Controlled Vocabularies Open Metadata Registry for the

RDAvocabulary.info namespace URIs for each element and controlled termUniversal Resource Identifiers

http://metadataregistry.org/rdabrowse.htm

RDA Carrier Types

URI

VIAF

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-م1952باموق، اورھان،

-1952, אורהאן, פאמוק

Pamuk, Orhan, 1952-

VIAFVirtual International Authority File(creative re-use of data)

viaf.org

Pamuk

200 publications in the 2000s

Pamuk

ISNI - 0000 0001 2032 3809

MA

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RDF

Pamuk

US RDA Test - 2010

2008 report – Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control

US National Libraries response to test RDA

US RDA Test – LC Support

[email protected] Library of Congress Policy Statements

(LCPS) http://loc.gov/aba/rda/ for LC’s

implementation news, training materials, Webcasts, etc.

US RDA Test 26 participating institutionsMany types of libraries, archives, museums,

book dealers, library schools, system vendors, bibliographic consortia, PCC funnel projects

10,570 Bibliographic records12,800 Authority records>8,000 surveys on findings

Results: improvements needed to RDA Toolkit, to readability of instructions, move beyond MARC, etc.

US RDA Test Recommendations Implementation no sooner than January 2012,

provided conditions met Conditions = recommendations to the Joint Steering Committee (RDA)American Library Association PublishersSystem vendorsProgram for Cooperative CatalogingLibrary of Congress, National Agricultural Library,

National Library of Medicine

LC’s Bibliographic Framework Initiative (BFI) US RDA Test results: MARC seen as

barrier to achieving benefits of RDARecommended evidence of credible progress

towards a replacement for MARC

Mappings or services to enable easy use of both new structures and MARC

Internal steering group at LCEric Miller (Zepheira) - contractor

Initiative to:Analyze present and future environment Identify components of the framework to

support usersPlan for evolution from present framework to

future

Issues to be Addressed

Aspects of current metadata encoding standards to retain or evolve or replace with something more compatible

with Internet (e.g., RDF XML) Benefits of Semantic Web and linked data

technologies for adjusting current models Maximum re-use of library metadata so

users exposed to more quality metadata in innovative ways

Issues, continued Navigate relationships among entities in

library catalogs and the broader Internet Displays of metadata beyond MARC-

based Identify risks of action and inaction, assess

acceptable pace of change Plan for bringing existing metadata into

new bibliographic systems

The Process Fully collaborative Consult Partners CustomersStandards expertsSystems designers and builders using library

metadata Host meetings to gather input from all

interested partiesAssociations, organizations Invitational meetings

How to get involved

http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition/index.htmlWeb site

[email protected] list

RDA Implementation 9 institutions continued with RDA after the

US RDA TestRDA “Copy” available for cataloging in

OCLC, SkyRiver, etc.

LC’s RDA Implementation Planning site:http://loc.gov.aba/rda/

Implementation date: March 31, 2013

Internationalization

EURIG Expansion of JSC membership

JSC = Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA

Translations of RDA Toolkit

Libraries in danger

Marginalized by information delivery systems with strong Web presence

Unless we repackage our metadata to re-use in new, creative waysVIAF visualizations of library dataBibliographic relationships = links and

pathways for users

Shared data

RDA’s well-formed metadata

Ability to easily re-use, link in an international environment

New systems

No more “bibliographic and authority records” – More “shared data” Inventory systems to manage local collectionsLinks to shared services for the description

and access pointsServices with expanded, faceted search

capabilities

Transition

RDA plus Encoding schema and application profile

for libraries that moves away from MARC towards more flexible structures and data linking and sharing

New systems

Collocation

Kara Kitap

New York, 2010

Turkish

English

French

German

Pamuk

Library of CongressCopy 1Green leather binding

MasumiyetMüzesi

Text

Objectives of a catalog: display

All the works associated with aperson, etc.

All the expressions of the same work

All the manifestations of the same expression

All items/copies of the same manifestation

Kara Kitap

New York, 2010

Turkish

English

French

German

Pamuk

Library of CongressCopy 1Green leather binding

Black Book Documentary

TextMovie

Gizli Yüz…

RelationshipsPathways to Related Works

Masumiyet Müzesi

Internet

Catalogs are no longer in isolation Global access to data

Integrate bibliographic data with wider Internet environment Share data beyond institutions

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Internet “Cloud”

Web frontend

ServicesVIAF

Databases, Repositories

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