RDA: an introduction

RDA: An Introduction

22nd November 2011

John McManus, Assistant LibrarianBibliographic Data ManagementTrinity College Library

Trinity College Library Dublin, College Street, Dublin 2

Introduction

• Context

• Overview

• AACR RDA examples

• Bibliographical records

• RDA implementation

Background

TCD Library, Trinity College, College Green, Dublin 2

• AACR3 abandoned

• June 2010 RDA: Toolkit released

• October 1-December 31: Official test period with record creation by LC, NAL, NLM, & 23 other institutions

• January-March 2011: Analysis of test results

US RDA Testing Coordinating Committee: Report


Report, released on June 20, stated:

“Contingent on the satisfactory progress/completion of the tasks and action items below, the Coordinating Committee recommends that RDA should be implemented by LC, NAL, and NLM no sooner than January 2013.“

RDA and FRBR


• Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR; 1998)

• Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD; 2009)

• Statement of International Cataloguing Principles (ICP; 2009)

RDA based on IFLA’s international models and principles

RDA and FRBR


• Work – a distinct intellectual or artistic creation

• Expression – intellectual or artistic realisation of a work

• Manifestation – physical embodiment of an expression of a work

• Item – single exemplar of a manifestation

• Visualisation

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucyltpm/cat/frbrtraining/frbr_example.html

Overview


• International content standard

• Move from classes of materials to elements and values

• “Take what you see” transcription

• Emphasis on cataloguer’s judgement

• Change in terminology

Structure


• General introduction

• Identifying elements (entities and their attributes)- Ch. 1-7: work, expression, manifestation, item- Ch. 8-16: person, family, corporate body, place

• Relationships: ch. 17-22, 24-32• Appendices• Glossary

http://access.rdatoolkit.org/index.php

Core elements


• RDA defines a core set of elements (no “levels” as in AACR2)

• LC has developed a LC CORE+

• Local practice

• Toolkit allows sharing of templates/workflows

AACR to RDA Vocabulary

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• heading

• author, composer,etc.

• main entry

• uniform title

authorized access point

creator

preferred title + authorized access point for creator if appropriate

(1) preferred title (+ other information to

differentiate)


• see reference

• see also reference

• physical description

variant access point

authorized access point for related entity

carrier description

Transcription


Principle of representation (from IFLA statement of International Cataloguing Principles) RDA 1.7.1

‘Take what you see’‘Accept what you get’

• Capitalization: follow appendix A or accept found form

• Punctuation, abbreviations (Appendix B), inaccuracies, symbols, initials, numbering: generally follow what is on source

Capitalization


Accepting found capitalization:

245 10 $a Cairo : $b THE CITY VICTORIOUS / $c Max Rodenbeck.

250 ## $a FIRST VINTAGE DEPARTURES EDITION.

Changing found capitalization:

245 10 $a Cairo : $b the city victorious / $c Max Rodenbeck.

250 ## $a First Vintage Departures edition.

Inaccuracies (title proper)


AACR2245 10 $a Micromagentic [sic] study of magnetoeleastic materials

246 3_ $a Micromagnetic study of magnetoeleastic materials

RDA245 10 $a Micromagentic study of magnetoeleastic materials

246 1_ $i Title should read: $a Micromagnetic study of magnetoeleastic materials

Statement of responsibility


• Transcribe as found (including titles etc.)

• Abandonment of rule of three

• Note: RDA offers option to transcribe first name and give bracketed summary about information not transcribed

• Don’t need to transcribe to justify additional access points and vice versa

Statement of responsibility


Or, if option applied:

245 $a … / $c by J. Douglas [and six others]

245 $a … / $c by J. Douglas, A. Dean, C. Terry, M. Paul, L. Michaels, M. Lawrence, and J. James.

Edition statement


AACR2 RDA

250 $a 2nd ed. 250 $a Second edition.On resource: second edition

250 $a Nouv. éd. 250 $a Nouvelle édition.On resource: Nouvelle édition

250 $a Version 4. 250 $a Version IV.On resource: Version IV

250 $a 6. Aufl. 250 $a 6. Aufl..On resource: 6. Aufl.

Place of publication


• If more than one, only the first recorded is required

• If no probable place, give “[Place of publication not identified]” – not “[S.l.]”

• Do not supply higher jurisdiction for found local place

• Do not correct fictitious or incorrect information; make a note to explain

Place of publication

260 $a LondonOn resource: London -- New York -- Boston

260 $a Red Oak [Iowa]

260 $a [Place of publication not identified]

260 $a Minneapolis500 $a Actually published in St. Paul

Publisher’s name


• If more than one, only the first recorded is required

• Do not shorten the form of name but can omit corporate hierarchy

• If no publisher identified, give “[publisher not identified]” – not “[s.n.]”

Publisher’s name


260 $b J.J. Wilson Publishing Companynot: 260 $b Wilson Pub. Co.

260 $a Toronto : $b Pilkington Pub. Co.on source: Toronto -- Pilkington Pub. Co. Houston -- Davidson Publishers

260 $b Humanities Association, Renaissance Literature Section

on source: Humanities Association, Literature Division, Renaissance Literature Section

260 $b [publisher not identified]

Date of Publication


• If no publication date on resource, supply a probable date whenever possible for benefit of users and catalogers

• If no probable date (very rare) for single-part monographs, give “[date of publication not identified]”

Approximate date of Publication


AACR2

[1971 or 1972][1969?][between 1906 and 1912][ca. 1960][197-][197-?][18--][18--?][not after Aug. 21, 1492]

RDA 1.9.2

[1971 or 1972][1969?][between 1906 and 1912][1960?][between 1970 and 1979][between 1970 and 1979?][between 1800 and 1899][between 1800 and 1899?][not after August 21, 1492]

Copyright Date


• Separate element from date of publication– Core element if no date of publication or of

distribution

• Precede by copyright symbol (©) or phonogram symbol ()

• In MARC 260 $c preceded by publication date and comma

Copyright date


260 $a Chicago : $b ELC Publishers, $c [date of publication not identified], 2010.On disc label: ELC Publishers, Chicago, 2010

260 $a [Denver?] : $b Colorado Department of Education, $c 2009, ©2009.On source: Published 2009 by ColoradoDepartment of Education, Copyright 2009

Recording extent


• No abbreviations for terms (e.g., “pages,” “volumes”)

• Changes in vocabulary from AACR2, e.g.:– “close score” and “miniature score” not in

RDA; use “condensed score” and “study score”

– “computer disc” for both “computer disk” and “computer optical disc”

– “sheet,” not “broadside”

Recording extent


AACR2300 $a 554 p. : $b ill., map ; $c 24 cm.

RDA300 $a 554 pages : $b illustrations, map ; $c 24 cm.

AACR2300 $a 123, [28] p. : $b chiefly ill. ; $c 26 cm.

RDA300 $a 123 pages, 28 unnumbered pages : $b illustrations ; $c 26cm.500 Chiefly illustrations.

GMD


The GMD is replaced by three new categories which necessitated the creation of new MARC fields:

1. Content type (336) – i.e. text, performed music, spoken word

2. Media type (337) – i.e. audio, video, computer, microform, unmediated

3. Carrier type (338) – i.e. videodisc, audio disc, online resource

Controlled vocabularies


• Closed lists in RDA 6.9.1.3, 3.2.1.3, 3.3.1.3

• If more than one term appropriate, two choices:– Give all: repeat subfield $a or repeat field– Pick term representing the predominant or most

substantial content, media, carrier

• If no term appropriate, give “other”

MARC for content, media, carrier


• In each field (336-338):

– $a: term– $b: code [give $a and/or $b]– $2: “rdacontent” or “rdamedia” or “rdacarrier”

as appropriate– $3: materials specified - give if appropriate

Content type


• Scope = “fundamental form of communication in which the content is expressed and the human sense through which it is intended to be perceived”– “cartographic image,” “performed music,” “still

image,” “text,” etc.

• For images, also whether in two or three dimensions and presence or absence of movement (e.g., “two-dimensional moving image”)

Media type


• Scope = “a categorization reflecting the general type of intermediation device required to view, play, run, etc., the content of a resource”– “audio,” “projected,” “microform,” “video,”

etc.

• Broad categories; specific types in Carrier type (RDA 3.3)

Carrier type


• Scope = “a categorization reflecting the format of the storage medium and housing of a carrier in combination with the type of intermediation device required to view, play, run, etc., the content of a resource”– “audio disc,” “computer disc,” “microfiche,”

“slide,” “volume,” etc.

• Don’t confuse with term used in Extent (MARC 300 $a): some terms in common

336-338 examples


Book:

300 $a 123 pages, 28 unnumbered pages336 $a text $2 rdacontent337 $a unmediated $2 rdamedia338 $a volume $2 rdacarrier

Music CD:

300 $a 1 audio disc {or: 1 CD}336 $a performed music $2 rdacontent337 $a audio $2 rdamedia338 $a audio disc $2 rdacarrier

339-338 examples


DVD:300 $a 1 DVD {or: 1 video disc}336 $a two-dimensional moving image $2 rdacontent337 $a video $2 rdamedia338 $a video disc $2 rdacarrier

Score:300 $a 1 vocal score (xii, 300 pages)336 $a notated music $2 rdacontent337 $a unmediated $2 rdamedia338 $a volume $2 rdacarrier

336-338 examples


Book with accompanying CD of lecture300 $a 244 pages ... + $e 1 CD336 $3 book $a text $2 rdacontent336 $3 CD $a spoken word $2 rdacontent337 $3 book $a unmediated $2 rdamedia337 $3 CD $a audio $2 rdamedia338 $3 book $a volume $2 rdacarrier338 $3 CD $ audio disc $2 rdacarrier

Can also give note or can repeat 300 field300 $a 244 pages ...

300 $a 1 CD ...

Access points


• AACR chapter 21 prescribes which main and added entries should (and should not) be made

• RDA is much less prescriptive

-The creator of a resource is core(0.6.6)-There are no limitations on what AACR calls

added entries

Access points


• Creator = “person, family, or corporatebody responsible for the creation of a work” (RDA 19.2)

• If more than one, only the creator having principalresponsibility named first in resource is required

• If more than one and principal responsibility notindicated, only the first-named creator is required

• But can add access points for all creators (dependingon local policy & cataloguer judgement)

Access points


Creators with principal responsibility:

100 $a Sweet, Martha. 245 $a … / $c by Martha Sweet and Linda

Bruce with contributions by Gus Peterson and Marilee James.

*700 $a Bruce, Linda.*700 $a Peterson, Gus.*700 $a James, Marilee.

Access points


Creators with no principal responsibility indicated:

100 $a Brown, Susan. 245 $a … / $c by Susan Brown,

Melanie Carlson, Stephen Lindell, Kevin Ott and Janet Wilson.

*700 $a Carlson, Melanie.*700 $a Lindell, Stephen.*700 $a Ott, Kevin.*700 $a Wilson, Janet.

100 1_ $a Tracey, John Paul, $e author.245 10 $a Managing bird damage to fruit

and other horticultural crops / John Tracey, Mary Bomford, Quentin Hart, Glen Saunders, Ron Sinclair.

700 1_ $a Bomford, Mary, $e author.700 1_ $a Hart, Quentin, $e author.700 1_ $a Saunders, Glen, $e author.700 1_ $a Sinclair, Ron, $e author.

Access points


AACR RDA

245 00 $a Sexual justice/cultural justice : $b critical perspectives in political theory and practice / $c edited by Barbara Arneil ... [et al.].

700 1_ $a Arneil, Barbara.

245 00 $a Sexual justice/cultural justice : $b critical perspectives in political theory and practice / $c edited by Barbara Arneil, Monique Deveaux, Rita Dhamoon and Avigail Eisenberg.

700 1_ $a Arneil, Barbara, $e editor.700 1_ $a Deveaux, Monique, $e

editor.700 1_ $a Dhamoon, Rita, $d 1970-

$e editor700 1_ $a Eisenberg, Avigail I., $d

1962- $e editor.

Full RDA record


Sample records can be found here:http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/RDAtest/rdaexamples.html

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/RDAtest/rdaexamples.html

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/RDAtest/rdaexamples.html

Bible


• Refer to the Old and New Testaments by their spelled-out forms (not “O.T.” and “N.T.”)

• Omit the name of the testament in the preferred title for individual books or groups of books

Bible


AACR2 25.18A RDA 6.23.2.9, 6.30.2.2

Bible. $p O.T.Bible. $p N.T.Bible. $p O.T. $p EzraBible. $p N.T. $p RevelationBible. $p N.T. $p Corinthians, 1stBible. $p O.T. $p Genesis XI, 26-

XX, 18Bible. $p O.T. $p PentateuchBible. $p N.T. $p GospelsBible. $p O.T. $p Apocrypha

Bible. $p Old TestamentBible. $p New TestamentBible. $p EzraBible. $p RevelationBible. $p Corinthians, 1stBible. $p Genesis, XI, 26-

XX, 18Bible. $p PentateuchBible. $p GospelsBible. $p Apocrypha

Musical works


• Some additions to titles will no longer be abbreviated: arranged instead of arr.; accompaniment instead of acc.; unaccompanied instead of unacc.

Respighi, Ottorino, 1879-1936. Uccelli; arrangedTownshend, Pete. Songs. Selections; arrangedLohse, Horst, 1943- . Lieder, accordion

accompanimentGoehr, Alexander, 1932- . Songs, clarinet, viola

accompanimentBennett, Sharon. Vocalises, unaccompanied

Musical works


• Librettos now treated as non-musical works and named using the writer of the libretto

Goodman, Alice. Nixon in Chinanot Adams, John, 1947- . Nixon in China. Libretto

• Variant access point for libretto made under the composer’s name100 1_ $a Goodman, Alice. $t Nixon in China400 1_ $a Adams, John, $d 1947- $t Nixon in China. $s Libretto

Identifying RDA records


•Bibliographic records:

Leader/18: value “i” (ISBD)040 $a ___ $c ___ $e rda

•Authority records:

008/10: value “z” (Other)040 $a ___ $b eng $c ___ $e rda

• RDA records already in the system

RDA : next steps


• Hybrid records

• Policy post LC decision

• Growing presence (Stanford & Chicago)

• RDA and local LMS

• Training and implementation

RDA revisions


• Rewrite the RDA instructions in clear, unambiguous, plain English

• Improve functionality of the RDA Toolkit

• Develop full RDA record examples in MARC and other encoding schemas

• Announce completion of the Registered RDA Element Sets and Vocabularies.

• Demonstrate credible progress towards a replacement for MARC

• Lead and coordinate RDA training

References


‘Changes from AACR2 to RDA: a comparison of examples’, by Adam L. Schiff

http://faculty.washington.edu/aschiff/BCLAPresentationWithNotes-RevJuly2010.pdf

‘RDA Essentials’, presentation by Judith A. Kuhagen, given in November 2010

http://www.ctlibraryassociation.org/ppoints/CLA_RDA6nov2010.ppt

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