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RDA Beta: A User-Focused Resource Metadata Package

Explore the impacts, elements, and application profiles of the RDA Beta package, a comprehensive resource metadata solution for libraries, archives, and museums in the digital age.

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RDA Beta: A User-Focused Resource Metadata Package

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  1. Content of beta RDA A brief overview Gordon Dunsire, Chair, RSC Presented at RDA Forum, ALA Annual June 23, 2018, New Orleans, USA

  2. Impacts • IFLA Library Reference Model (2017) • New entities (Agent, Collective Agent, Nomen, Place, Timespan) • Shift from attribute to relationship • Aggregate manifestations & serial works Internationalization No “one way” of describing an entity Communities Libraries, archives, museums, linked data

  3. The numbers 1700+ elements 13 entities

  4. Focus on elements Each element has own “page” Elements grouped by entity “chapter” Element reference section Element recording methods Navigation to “nearest neighbour” elements

  5. Application profiles What elements must be recorded? What elements should be recorded? What elements may be repeated? What vocabularies are used? What recording methods are used? Multiple ways: bookmarks, policy statements, workflows, external documents

  6. Instruction display • No options nested within options • Exceptions and alternatives are just other options Structured display For condition condition do action Decision points

  7. What’s left to do? Editing for clarity and consistency Distinguishing instructions for name/title and access point elements New instructions for aggregates and serials Tweaks, refinements, feedback We want to hear from you

  8. The product A package of data elements, guidelines, and instructions for creating library and cultural heritage resource metadata that are well-formed according to international models for user-focussed linked data applications. A package that meets the resource description and access needs of the 21st century

  9. Thank you

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