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RDA : the Inside Story The Genesis OLA, February 2, 2008 Ingrid Parent Library and Archives Canada. Overview. Why a new standard? RDA principles and goals Who develops and supports RDA? Timeline. From Panizzi’s rules to AACR2. 1841: Panizzi’s rules for the British Museum
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RDA : the Inside Story The Genesis OLA, February 2, 2008 Ingrid Parent Library and Archives Canada
Overview • Why a new standard? • RDA principles and goals • Who develops and supports RDA? • Timeline
From Panizzi’s rules to AACR2 • 1841: Panizzi’s rules for the British Museum • 1876: Cutter’s rules • 1902-1949: Separate U.S. and U.K. rules • 1961: Lubetsky, IFLA and “Paris Principles” • 1967: AACR, North American/UK differences • 1969: IFLA and International Standard Bibliographic Description • 1978: AACR2
AACR2 • 1978 • 1988 • 1998 • 2002
1997 International Conference on the Principles & Future Development of AACR, Toronto • Worldwide experts identified issues: • Principles • Content vs. carrier • Logical structure of AACR2 • Seriality • Internationalization
FRBR • Published by IFLA in 1998 • Reinforces basic objectives of catalogues and importance of relationships for users to carry out basic tasks – find, identify, select, obtain • Structure allows collocation at Work/Expression level • Conceptual model of entities, relationships and attributes[FRBR: Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr/frbr.pdf]
IME ICC • IFLA updates and reaffirms Paris Principles, 2003-2007 • series of regional meetings - IFLA Meeting of Experts on an International Cataloguing Code • increase the ability to share cataloguing worldwide by promoting standards • develop “Statement of International Cataloguing Principles”
New standard: why? • Align with conceptual models (FRBR, FRAD) to build well-formed metadata • Encourage application of FRBR/FRAD • Encourage use as a content standard for metadata schema • Encourage international applicability • Address current problems • Provide more consistency • Principle-based • To guide cataloguer’s judgment[FRAD: Functional Requirements for Authority Data http://www.ifla.org/VII/d4/FRANAR-ConceptualModel-2ndReview.pdf]
New Cataloguing Environment • Need to provide access to a wider range of information carriers: wider depth & complexity of content • Metadata (bibliographic information) created by a wider range of personnel in and outside libraries (authors, administrators, cataloguers, computers, publishers, etc.) • Descriptive data in digital form (ONIX, etc.)
RDA Objectives and Principles • Objectives • Responsiveness to user needs • Cost efficiency • Flexibility • Continuity • Principles • Based on IME ICC draft statement of principles: Differentiation, Sufficiency, Relationships, etc. • Draft IME ICC statement: http://www.loc.gov/loc/ifla/imeicc/pdf/statement-draft3_apr06cleancopy.pdf
Strategic PlanGoals for RDA • A new standard for resource description and access • Designed for the digital environment • Description and access of all digital and analog resources • Resulting descriptions usable in digital environment (Web-based catalogues and resource discovery services) • Web-based tool • paper also available http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/stratplan.html
RDA will be … • “Amultinationalcontent standard providing bibliographic description and access for the variety of media and formats collected by libraries today” • Designed to be used in all language communities • Intend to remove English-bias
MARC 21 • Replacement of GMD • Other changes to accommodate new elements • MARBI discussion paper – January 2008 • http://www.loc.gov/marc/marbi/2008/2008-dp04.html • MARBI proposals – June 2008
RDA and DC (Dublin Core) • “Data Modeling Meeting” - London 2007 • development of an RDA Element Vocabulary • development of an RDA Dublin Core Application Profile based on FRBR and FRAD • identification of RDA Value Vocabularies for Semantic Web
The supporting cast • JSC constituencies • Canada – Canadian Committee on Cataloguing • Working Groups – Examples, Appendices, etc. • Outreach Group • Other communities (e.g., DC, MARC) • Other rule making bodies
RDA timeline • Dec. 07-Mar. 2008: Review of access point control chapters • July-Sept. 2008: Review of complete draft of RDA • Dec. 2008: RDA text finalised • early 2009: Release of RDA • late 2009: Implementation