Looking to the Looking to the Future with RDA Future with RDA Presented by Dr. Barbara B. Tillett Presented by Dr. Barbara B. Tillett Chief, Policy & Standards Division, Chief, Policy & Standards Division, Library of Congress Library of Congress For National Central Library and For National Central Library and Library Association of the Republic of Library Association of the Republic of China (Taiwan) China (Taiwan) March 21, 2012 March 21, 2012 Library of Congress RDA Seminar, March 2012
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Looking to the Looking to the Future with RDAFuture with RDA
Presented by Dr. Barbara B. TillettPresented by Dr. Barbara B. TillettChief, Policy & Standards Division, Library Chief, Policy & Standards Division, Library
of Congressof CongressFor National Central Library andFor National Central Library and
Library Association of the Republic of China Library Association of the Republic of China (Taiwan)(Taiwan)
March 21, 2012March 21, 2012Library of Congress RDA Seminar, March 2012
“…we’re now focused on three things: ease of use, continuous availability, and low price.” Robert Capps in the Sept. 2009 Wired article “The Good Enuf Rvlutn”
“…multiple, simultaneous ways of organizing things” – David Weinberger, Everything is Miscellaneous, 2009.
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InternetInternetInformation systems are no Information systems are no
longer the end points in isolation longer the end points in isolation of old catalogsof old catalogs Global access to dataGlobal access to data
Integrate bibliographic data with Integrate bibliographic data with wider Internet environmentwider Internet environment Share data beyond institutionsShare data beyond institutions
Internet “Cloud”
Databases, Repositories
Web frontend
Services
Infrastructureto Build for the Future
Delivery to users
Information Systems + Content
Data Models Content Standards
Cataloging PrinciplesObjectives
Conceptual ModelsUser Tasks
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1970s-now1970s-nowMARC MARC
structurestructure Self-contained Self-contained
recordsrecords May or may not May or may not
have any explicit have any explicit connection connection between between bibliographic and bibliographic and authority recordsauthority records
Author/title/subjectAuthority record
Bibliographic record
Holdings/Item record
Holdings/Item record
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“Bridge” Period
Mapping tables for RDA and MARC, Dublin Core, MODS/MADS, and ISBD
Decisions from PCC and local choices for alternatives and options, if needed – documented in RDA Toolkit
Development of RDA Workflows and other training materials (e.g., changes from AACR2)
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Linked Data ScenarioLinked Data ScenarioLinked Linked
“description “description sets” for sets” for entities entities