RDA Test “Train the Trainer Module 1: What RDA is and isn’t [Content as of Mar. 31, 2010]

RDA Test “Train the Trainer

Module 1: What RDA is and isn’t

[Content as of Mar. 31, 2010]

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RDA is successor to AACR2

• but is not AACR3 -- RDA is different from AACR2

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RDA based on IFLA’s international models and principles

• Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR; 1998)

• Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD; 2009)

• Statement of International Cataloguing Principles (ICP; 2009)

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Addresses user tasks

FRBR:• Find• Identify• Select• Obtain

FRAD:• Find• Identify• Contextualize• Justify

• ICP’s highest principle = “convenience of the user”

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Is a content standard

• Not a display standard (as was AACR2)– Does have appendix D for ISBD and appendix E for

AACR2 style for access points

• Not an encoding standard– Use whatever schema you prefer (MARC 21, Dublin

Core, etc.)– MARC 21 used in these training materials (with blank

space around subfield codes for ease in reading)

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More international

• Focus on local user needs

• Choice of agency preparing the description:– Language– Script– Calendar– Numeric system

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For wider scope of resources

• Response to what’s being acquired in libraries– More elements for non-printed text resources– More elements for non-text resources– More elements for unpublished resources

• Compatible with specialist manuals (DACS, CCO, DCRM(B) etc.)

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Includes authority data instructions

• Based on attributes and relationships in FRAD

• Authorized/variant access points and elements will for now be documented in authority records

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Has controlled vocabularies

• Only a few closed: content, media, and carrier types; mode of issuance; etc.

• Most are open: cataloger can supply term if needed term not in list

• Some vocabularies being registered on the Web

• Training document #1 = list of vocabularies

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What’s changing?• Changes in technology

– Impact on descriptive/access data• book catalogs• card catalogs• OPACs• next generation

• Move from classes of materials to elements and values (more controlled vocabularies)

• Move from individual library to international audience

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Internet

• Catalogs are no longer in isolation– Global access to data

• Virtual International Authority File (www.viaf.org)

• Integrate bibliographic data with wider Internet environment– Share data beyond institutions

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Developed for the future

• When authority and bibliographic data reside in separate “packages”– Records assembled when needed

• When access points (if needed) can be assembled “on the fly”

• When data for works and expressions can be reused for multiple manifestations

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Implementation for RDA Test

• Encoding schema: whatever you’re using now (e.g., MARC 21, Dublin Core)

• Display format: whatever you’re using now (e.g., ISBD)

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RDA appendices for transition

• Appendix D mappings:– ISBD to RDA– MARC 21 bibliographic format to RDA

• Appendix E:– Presentation and punctuation of access points– MARC 21 authority format mapping to RDA