Revising AACR: RDA

Stuart HuntCILIP/BL Committee on AACR/RDA

Oslo, January 2006

Why are we doing this? Simplify

Encourage use as a content standard for metadata schema

Encourage international applicability Provide more consistency where

appropriate Improve collocation

Work/expression level citation/relationships New approach to GMDs

Why are we doing this? Principle-based

Build cataloger’s judgment Founded on international cataloging

principles Encourage applications of FRBR concepts

Anglo-American Tradition18

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How did we get here?

1961 – IFLA’s “Paris Principles”

1969 – IFLA’s ISBDs International

Standard Bibliographic Description

Anglo-American Tradition18

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How did we get here?

AACR2 1978 1988 1998 2002

Supporting Organizational Structure

Committee of

Principals

AACR FundTrustees/Publishers

Joint SteeringCommittee

ALACC:DA

ACOC BL CCC CILIP LC

1997 International Conference on the Principles and Future Development

of AACR Toronto, Canada JSC invited

worldwide experts Issues leading to

RDA

Principles Content vs. carrier Logical structure of

AACR Seriality Internationalization

How did we get here? IFLA’s Functional

Requirements for Bibliographic Records

FRBR user tasks Find Identify Select Obtain

Collocation at the work/expression level

How did we get here? FRBR

Conceptual model Entities, relationships,

attributes New terminology and

approaches to packaging and presenting metadata

Work

Expression

Manifestation

ItemPerson

Corporate Body

Subject

How did we get here? December 2003 Update Paris Principles

IFLA Meeting of Experts on an International Cataloguing Code

(IME ICC Frankfurt draft Statement of Principles)

How did we get here?

Communication Standards MARC

• UNIMARC• MARC 21• MODS/MADS• MARCXML

XML dtd’s Next generation?

Metadata Standards Dublin Core MPEG 7 VRA EAD ISBD (also a

content/display standard)

Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)

Strategic Plan for RDA http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/stratplan.html

Statement of purpose RDA - Resource Description and Access will be a new

standard for resource description and access, designed for the digital world.

Built on foundations established by the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR), RDA will provide a comprehensive set of guidelines and instructions on resource description and access covering all types of content and media.

RDA will enable users of library catalogues and other systems of information organization to find, identify, select, and obtain resources appropriate to their information needs.

Goals

1. Will be ready for publication in 20082. Guidelines and instructions to:

Provide a consistent, flexible and extensible framework for both the technical and content description of all types of resources and all types of content.

Be compatible with internationally established principles, models, and standards.

Be usable outside the library community, and be capable of adaptation by various communities to their specific needs.

Goals

3. Descriptions & access points will: Enable users to find, identify, select, and obtain

resources appropriate to their information needs. Be compatible with those descriptions and

access points devised using AACR2, and present in existing catalogues and databases.

Be independent of the format, medium or system used to store or communicate the data.

Be readily adaptable to newly-emerging database structures.

Goals

4. Will be a standard that is: Optimised for use as an online tool (although a

print edition will also be published). Derived from English language conventions and

customs, written in plain English, and able to be used in other language communities.

Easy and efficient to use, both as a working tool and for training purposes

RDA is

A new standard for resource description and access

Designed for the digital environment Web-based product (also loose-leaf) Description and access of all digital

resources (and analog) Resulting records usable in the digital

environment (Internet, Web OPACs, etc.)

RDA is

Multinational content standard providing bibliographic description and access for all media

Developed for use in English language communities; it can also be used in other language communities

Independent of the format (e.g., MARC 21) used to communicate information

Purpose for RDA

Support FRBR user tasks Find, identify, select, obtain

Enable users of library catalogues, etc. to find and use resources appropriate to their information needs

Strategic targets

1. New edition – 20082. Reach out to other communities3. Web-based product/tool, plus a loose-leaf

product

RDA Structure (Proposed)

General introduction Part I – Resource description Part II - Relationships Part III – Authority control (Access point

control) Appendices

Capitalization, Numerals, Initial articles, Abbreviations

Presentation (ISBD display, OPAC display, etc.) Glossary Index

General Introduction (Proposed)

Purpose and scope of the code Underlying objectives and principles Related standards and guidelines

Keep brief but possibly with links to full text of the relevant principles and concept documents

RDA – Part I (Proposed)

• Introduction• General guidelines for resource

description• Identification of the resource• Technical description• Content description• Information on terms of availability• Item-specific information

RDA – Part I (Proposed) Data elements/attributes for description of

resources Purpose and scope (FRBR user tasks) Source for the attribute How to record the attribute Notes pertaining to the attribute Attribute as access point

• Controlled• Uncontrolled

RDA - Part I (Proposed)GMD/SMD vs. Type and Form of Carrier

Print and graphic media Micrographic media Tactile media Three-dimensional

media Audio media Projected graphic, film,

video media Digital media

RDA - Part I (Proposed) Type and Form of Content

Text Music Cartographic Resources Graphics Three-dimensional

Resources Sound Moving Images Data, Software, and

Interactive Content

RDA – Part II (Proposal) Relationships

Works Expressions Manifestations Items Persons Corporate bodies Families

Citations Works Expressions Manifestations Items

Simplify choice of primary access point for citations of works

RDA – Part II Process

Review AACR2 Ch. 21 special rules Musical Art Legal Religious Academic

JSC proposals to eliminate, simplify, etc.

Work/Expression Records

Classics of literature vs. scientific studies Examples in the OCLC database

Stephen King• 102 works, 231 manifestations

Shakespeare’s Hamlet• 1 work, 2696 manifestations

Rowling, J.K. (Harry Potter stories)• 28 works, 300 manifestations

RDA Part III (Proposal)

Authority control / Access point management General guidelines Authorized forms

• Persons, Families, Corporate bodies, Places• Citations for works, etc.

Variant forms

Appendices (Proposal) Capitalization Numerals Initial articles Abbreviations Presentation of descriptive and authority

data Glossary

Possibly hypertext links from text to glossary terms

Index

RDA Timeline (Proposal) July 2005: Prospectus Oct. 2005-April 2006: Completion of draft of

Part I, and constituency review May-Sept. 2006: Completion of draft of Part II,

and constituency review Oct. 2006-Apr. 2007: Completion of draft of

Part III, and constituency review May-Sept. 2007: Completion of General

Introduction, Appendices, and Glossary  2008: Publication

JSC meetings

April 2006 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada October 2006 in Washington, D.C. Etc.

AACR2

Final AACR2 update: 2005

JSC Public Web Site

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/index.html

Draft of RDA Part I

Made available as means of providing outreach to library and non-library resource description communities

Not officially part of RDA until drafts approved by JSC & formally published

Deadline for comments 1st March 2006 (for consideration at April JSC meeting)

RDA-L

listserv is to facilitate informal discussion on RDA

JSC initiative Hosted by Library and Archives Canada List archives forthcoming 2006

Citations

Data elements

FRBR

Authority control

Access points

Consistency

Content standard

Simplification

Principles

Summary

Thank you!