RDA: Designed for Current and Future Environments

RDADesigned for current and future environmentsChris Oliver McGill University [email protected] May 11, 2011

RDA = Resource Description and Accessy y y

new metadata standard replaces AACR2 designed for the web environment better metadata to support better resource discovery

Designed for now and the futureNowy

Futurey

designed to work in the current environment compatible with AACR2 records can encode in MARC 21 and store in current databases

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designed to work in future environments y new database structures y data on the web y linked data in the semantic web environment y library data visible in the web alongside other types of metadata

Plan for the webinar1. 2.

What is RDA? What makes RDA different?x x RDA as a content standard RDAs underlying framework - data model - data elements

Questions, comments3.

Bibliographic and authority data in new environmentsx x x RDA data beyond MARC records RDA data beyond the current catalog RDA data on the web

Questions, comments

What is RDA? relationship to AACR2

a content standard

AACR2y y y

RDA

continue to record title continue to record edition continue to record date of publication

But y y

new vocabulary new way of thinking about how we do these steps

Relationship to AACR2RDA 0.2 instructions derived from AACR have been reworked many instructions originate from AACR2 instructions are reworded and organized differently within a new theoretical framework every word has changed

many instructions show visible continuity with AACR2

AACR2

RDAAACR2 deconstructed new concepts new structure new vocabulary some new instructions some changed instructions

What makes RDA different?some continuity with AACR2 But y

RDA as a content standardflexibility adaptability

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theoretical framework bibliographic and authority information as data

RDA = content standardRDA not an encoding standard not a presentation standard RDA what data do I record?

RDA 0.4.2 Objectives 0.4.2.3 Flexibility The data should function independently of the format, medium, or system used to store or communicate the data.They should be amenable to use in a variety of environments.

RDA = content standardRDA data can be encoded using: MARC 21 encoding schema such as Dublin Core, MODS, and others web friendly encoding schema based on XML RDA data can be presented using : ISBD conventions labelled display newly developed display conventions display conventions used in other metadata communities

Examples in RDAexamples show what the data should be:RDA 2.4.1.4 Recording Statements of Responsibility Transcribe a statement of responsibility in the form in which it appears on the source of information. EXAMPLE by Walter de la Mare Fats Waller by Dr. Johnson by Sir Richard Acland by Alfred, Lord Tennyson by a Lady of Quality par Charles M. Schultz directed and produced by the Beatles

Examples in RDAAACR2 2.1F1. Transcribe statements of responsibility relating to persons or bodies as instructed in 1.1F Shut up in Paris / by Nathan Sheppard Great Britain : handbook for travellers / by Karl Baedecker Vas-y, Charlie Brown / par Charles M. Schulz MARC 21 manual 245 $c statement of responsibility

245 04 $a The plays of Oscar Wilde /$c Alan Bird. 245 10 $a How to play chess /$c Kevin Wicker ; with a foreword by David Pritchard ; illustrated by Karel Feuerstein.

RDA as a content standardrecord reliable data y how to encode data not part of the standardy

RDA says:

record persons date of birth 1978

Many possibilities for encoding: $d 1978MARC 21 MARCXML 1978- . 1978- 1978