Getting to know you: An Informal Introduction to RDA

Indiana Library Federation

District 5/7 ConferenceMay 9, 2012

Jackie ByrdHead, Area Studies Cataloging

SectionWells Library, IUB

Lori Dekydtspotter

Rare Books & Special Collections Cataloger

Lilly Library, IUB

Carl Horne

Slavic & Central Eurasian

Cataloger & NACO/SACO Liaison

Wells Library, IUB

Andrea MorrisonMonographic Cataloger

Wells Library, IUB

Program Outline Introduction

RDA Concepts

RDA and AACR2 Bibliographic Record Examples

Impact on User Access

RDA: What’s Next?

Not to be mistaken for cataloger training!!!

Questions?

Please save any questions you may have until all speakers have completed

their presentations.

Carl Horne

RDA Concepts

Functional Requirements of Bibliographic Records: FRBR

• Find = discovery, bibliographic retrieval

• Identify = differentiate from similar titles, editions, etc.

• Select = formulate a decision on suitability of resource

• Obtain = actual retrieval, from library’s collection, from a remote electronic source, etc.

WEMI

• WORK

• EXPRESSION

• MANIFESTATION

• ITEM

ITEM

1st edition –

IUB’s Lilly Library copy, signed by author

vs.

1st edition –

IU Wells Library copy

MANIFESTATION1st edition

vs.

3rd edition

Item

EXPRESSION

Work in original language

vs.

French-language translation

Manifestation

Item

WORK: an abstraction

Mousetrap : a play / Agatha Christie

vs.

Mousetrap : a short story / Agatha Christie

Expression

Manifestation

Item

WEMI

A Work is realized through an Expression is embodied in a Manifestation is exemplified by an Item

Andrea Morrison

RDA AND AACR2: A COMPARISON OF

RECORDS

A Selection of Differences Between

AACR2R and RDA

General terminology

Sources of information & the use of brackets

Transcription

Abbreviations

Access points for manifestations and items

AACR2 and RDA: What is the Difference?

Bibliographic Record Examples

Author: Olney, Martha L., 1956-Title: Macroeconomics as a second language / by Martha Olney.Published: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2011.Edition: 3rd ed.Description: xvi, 334 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Author: Olney, Martha L., 1956- author.Title: Macroeconomics as a Second Language / by Martha Olney.Published: Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, [2011], ©2011.Edition: Third edition.Description: xvi, 334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: textMedia type: unmediatedCarrier type: volume

AACR2 Record RDA Record

Displaying Variant Titles, Errors and Unknown Information

Title: Bone augmenation

[i.e. augmentation] in oral implantology

OR

Title: Bone augmenation [sic] in oral implantology

Variant title: Bone augmentation in oral implantology

OR

Title: Bone augmen[t]ation in oral implantology_______________________________

Published: [S.l. : s.n., 200-?].

Title: Bone augmenation in oral implantology

Variant title information provided as a note:

Title should read: Bone augmentation in oral implantology

_______________________________

Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [date of publication not identified].

AACR2 Record RDA Record

Recording Names in the Bibliographic Description

Title: Second growth : community economic development in rural Indiana / Sean Markey … [et al.].

____________________________

Title: Characters from Dickens : dramatized adaptation / by Barry Campbell ; edited by Art Peterson … [et al.].

Title: Second growth : community economic development in rural Indiana / Sean Markey, John T. Pierce, Kelly Vodden, Glen Saunders and Mark Roseland.

ORTitle: Second growth : community economic development in rural Indiana / Sean Markey [and four others]._______________________________

Title: Characters from Dickens / dramatized adaptation by Barry Campbell ; edited by Art Peterson, Dr. Colin Barham, Barry Campbell, and Leon Golman.

AACR2 Record: RDA Record:

Publishing Information

Published: London [Ont.] : Environmetrics Press, 1990-

____________________________

Many places of publication on source: London – Stockholm – Copenhagen – New York.

Published: London ; New York : Hedstrom Pub. Co., 2008.

Published: London : Environmetrics Press, 1990-

Note: Published in London, Ontario.

_______________________________

Published: London : Hedstrom Publishing Company, 2008.

OR

Published: London ; Stockholm ; Copenhagen ; New York : Hedstrom Publishing Company, 2008.

AACR2 Record RDA Record

AACR2 v. RDA: All RDA Core Elements for Books (Except

ISBN)

Author: Harvard University. Botanical Museum.

Title: The glass flowers at Harvard / Richard Evans Schultes and William A Davis with Hillel Burger.

Published: Cambridge : Botanical Museum of Harvard University, c1992.

Description: 118 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.

Contents: “First published 1982 by E.P. Dutton, New York”–T.p. verso.

Other contributors: Schultes, Richard Evans.

Other contributors: Davis, William A.

Other contributors: Burger, Hillel.

Author: Harvard University. Botanical Museum, issuing body.

Title: The glass flowers at Harvard / Richard Evans Schultes, Edward C. Jeffrey Professor of Biology and Director of the Botanical Museum, Harvard University, and William A. Davis, Keeper of Scientific Exhibits, Botanical Museum, Harvard University, with Hillel Burger, Chief Photographer, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.

Published: Cambridge : Botanical Museum of Harvard University, [1992], ©1992.

Description: 118 pages : color photographs ; 28 cm.

Contents: “First published 1982 by E.P. Dutton, New York”--Title page verso.

Other cont.: Schultes, Richard Evans, author.

Other cont.: Davis, William A., author.

Other cont.: Burger, Hillel, photographer.

[Content type, Media type, and Carrier type do not display in IUCAT]

RDA Bibliographic Record RequirementIn OPAC:

Cataloging source: IUL rda IUL

In MARC21:

040 __ $a IUL $e rda $c IUL

IUL = Indiana University Libraries as cataloging agency

Hint: change catalog display to fullest view and MARC21 view to compare

Jackie Byrd

RDA IMPACT ON USERS

Maybe Some Good Things

• Many fewer abbreviations

• No more Latin

• Relationship Designators

“Rule of Three”AACR2:

No More “Rule of Three”RDA:

Maybe Some Not-So-Good Things Lack of standardization, e.g.

edition statements as presented on item:

1st ed. I ed.

1st edition. I edition.

Ed. 1. First ed.

Edition 1. First edition.

How would this affect keyword searching?

Lack of StandardizationIn general the lack of standardization can cause some concern. RDA allows for much more “cataloger judgment,” and it allows local decisions to impact the national record. Because we are all using each other’s records and trying to do so in an efficient manner, this will likely result in a lack of any real standardization within our local catalogs.

Maybe Some Not-So-Good Things

Loss of GMD (General Material

Designator):

Currently users can easily tell via the GMD after the title proper whether a title listed in search results is a videorecording, a sound recording, an online resource, etc.

AACR2 OPAC DisplayWith GMD:

RDA OPAC DisplayWithout GMD:

336-338 Fields

Instead of the GMD, RDA uses three new fields:

336: Content (fundamental form)

337: Media (intermediation device)

338: Carrier (storage medium and housing)

RDA:336337338

Example: A print map

336: cartographic image 337: unmediated 338: sheet

Note that print items are treated the same as any other medium. In AACR2, this map would have a GMD: [cartographic material]

The 336-338 fields are intended to facilitate communication between computers, but many feel that patrons are losing valuable information.

Unfortunately, many ILSs do not allow us to “translate” the 336-338 fields into a string better intended for human beings, e.g. “print map” in the previous example. Hopefully this situation will improve in the future.

Thus far, we have elected not to display these fields in our OPAC.

We have some special OPAC searches that rely on the GMD, e.g. DVD/Video search, Sound Recording Search, E-Book Search.

We are unsure about how to handle these in an RDA environment.

Lori Dekydtspotter

RDA: WHAT’S NEXT?

Current forecast: Lack of examples & a chance of potential headaches …

RDA is still the new kid on the block

How RDA would work is not demonstrable in a practical way

RDA tests only dealt with existing format (i.e., MARC)

RDA is a work in progress Revisions Word-smithing Working on

uncompleted sections

Reviewing the scope of RDA

Work is also underway on how to harmonize RDA with other standards, such as ISBD and ISSN

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Next Steps for IU?

The Role of the Indiana Online Cataloging Congress

(IOCC)

RDA Task Group (created Sept. 2010)

IU RDA Wiki: http://iurda.pbworks.com

Resources

• RDA Toolkit (subscription)http://rdatoolkit.org

• Library of Congress RDA Test http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/rda/• LC’s Information & Resources to prepare for RDA

(http://www.loc.gov/aba/rda/)• RDA Carrier (MARC 338)

http://www.loc.gov/standards/valuelist/rdacarrier.html• RDA Media (MARC 337)

http://www.loc.gov/standards/valuelist/rdamedia.html• RDA Content (MARC 336)

http://www.loc.gov/standards/valuelist/rdacontent.html• Open Metadata Registry (RDA Vocabularies)

http://metadataregistry.org/rdabrowse.htm

• Joint Steering Committee for the Development of RDA. Presentations on RDA.

http://www.rda-jsc.org/rdapresentations.html

• Joint Steering Committee Report from the RDA Training Task Force

http://www.libraries.psu.edu/tas/jca/ccda/docs/RDATraining1201.pdf

• Library of Congress decisions on application of Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Books)

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/rarebooks.pdf

• Library of Congress Documentation for the RDA (Resource Description and Access) Test: Training Materials for LC Core RDA Elements

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/RDAtest/rdatraining2.html

• Resource Description & Access (RDA) test materials. https://staff.lib.ncsu.edu/confluence/display/MNC/RDA+Test#RDATest-NCSURDATestWorkforms

Resources continued …

Thank you!

Questions?