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Getting Real with RDA

Getting Real with RDA. Diane I. Hillmann Director of Metadata Initiatives Information Institute of Syracuse. The Problem …. Library Data. The Big Picture. Libraries are no longer the first place people come for information

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Getting Real with RDA

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  1. Getting Real with RDA Diane I. Hillmann Director of Metadata Initiatives Information Institute of Syracuse

  2. The Problem … Library Data New Jersey Library Association

  3. The Big Picture • Libraries are no longer the first place people come for information • The Internet has changed the way people (including us) behave when seeking information • Our former “granularity consensus” is coming apart • To compete effectively for user attention, we must: • Join the larger world of information, where our users are • Learn how the competition attracts users, draws them in, and takes good advantage of their interest in participating • Find a better balance between protecting privacy and capturing usage behavior New Jersey Library Association

  4. RDA in the Context of Change New Jersey Library Association

  5. And Why Must We Do This? • The comfortable certainties we know are coming undone, whether we’re ready or not • We have much experience and insight to offer the larger information world (but not everything we’ve learned is relevant) • We are collectively about the size of the Queen Mary, unable to turn on a dime—this change will take time • Resistance is futile—we are not in charge of this new world, and our options are two: adapt or retire New Jersey Library Association

  6. Common Questions • Is RDA really going to happen? • Is it that different from AACR2? • What about MARC? • When will RDA be implemented? How will RDA be implemented? • How can we best prepare for all this? • What’s this Semantic Web thingy all about, and why do we care? New Jersey Library Association

  7. What’s Different? New Jersey Library Association

  8. Important Differences • RDA is a FRBR-based approach to structuring bibliographic data • It’s contains more explicitly machine-friendly linkages (preferably with URIs) • There’s more emphasis on relationships and roles … • … and less emphasis on cataloger-created notes and text strings (particularly for identification) • Also, there’s less transcription (important in an increasingly digital world) New Jersey Library Association

  9. The RDA You’ve Heard About … • The Textual Guidance (successor to AACR2) • RDA Constituency Review has been completed, decisions about what will be included in the first release have been made • 2nd quarter calendar 2009 – RDA content is finalized • 3rd quarter calendar 2009 – RDA is released • 3rd and 4th quarters calendar 2009, possibly into 1st quarter calendar 2010 – Testing by national libraries • 1st and 2nd quarters calendar 2010 – Analysis and evaluation of testing by national libraries • 3rd-4th quarters calendar 2010 – RDA implementation ? New Jersey Library Association

  10. RDA as Toolkit • RDA Online will include the text and a number of tools • Pricing still not firm, but ALA Publishing is aware of the need for affordability • Among the free tools we should see: • Capability to create “sample records” using various flavors of RDA • XML Schemas to use with RDA data • RSS feeds to keep track of vocabulary changes • Ability to participate in discussion of changes in RDA vocabularies New Jersey Library Association

  11. The Rest of the Story • RDA elements, roles and vocabularies have been provisionally registered • The vocabularies and the text will be tied together in RDA Online • Maintenance of vocabularies will be via the Registry (no synchronization necessary) • Some efforts have begun to consider how MARC21 data can be parsed into FRBR entities and RDA • eXtensible Catalog Project moving strongly in this direction • Unfortunately, we don’t know what OCLC is planning • Discussions about long term maintenance of both RDA and the vocabularies have barely started • The push is already on for multi-language RDA Vocabularies New Jersey Library Association

  12. Who’s Doing This? • DCMI/RDA Task Group • See: http://dublincore.org/dcmirdataskgroup/ • Set up during the April 2007 London meeting between JSC and DCMI • Gordon Dunsire and Diane Hillmann, co-chairs • Karen Coyle & Alistair Miles, consultants • IFLA Classification and Indexing Section • Gordon Dunsire (Centre for Digital Library Research, University of Strathclyde) will be registering FRBR entities and relationships • Possible inclusion of ISBDs, FRAD, etc., in future New Jersey Library Association

  13. RDA Elements Listing 334! New Jersey Library Association

  14. RDA Elements Listing Base material 334! New Jersey Library Association

  15. Detail: Base Material New Jersey Library Association

  16. Detail: Base Material URI New Jersey Library Association

  17. RDA Roles Listing New Jersey Library Association

  18. RDA Roles Listing Author New Jersey Library Association

  19. Detail: RDA Role Author New Jersey Library Association

  20. RDA WEMI Relationships New Jersey Library Association

  21. Detail: RDA WEMI Relationship New Jersey Library Association

  22. RDA Base Material Vocabulary New Jersey Library Association

  23. RDA Base Material Vocabulary Skin New Jersey Library Association

  24. RDA Base Material: Skin No definition? New Jersey Library Association

  25. Walking through a concrete example … From the DCMI/RDA Cataloger Scenarios New Jersey Library Association

  26. A Cataloger Scenario Jane Cataloger is assigned to work on a gift collection. Her first selection is a Latvian translation of Kurt Vonnegut's "Bluebeard: a novel." She searches the library database for the original work, and finds: *Author: Kurt Vonnegut *Title of the work: Bluebeard: a novel *Form of work: Novel *Original language of the work: English New Jersey Library Association

  27. Translated to RDA/XML: <frbrWork ID="rda.basic/01”> <rdarole:author>Kurt Vonnegut</rdarole:author> <titleOfTheWork>Bluebeard: a novel</titleOfTheWork> <formOfWork>Novel</formOfWork> <originalLanguageOfTheWork>English<originalLanguageOfTheWork> </frbrWork> Upgraded to RDA/XML with Links: <frbrWork ID="rda.basic/01”> <rdarole:author>http://lcnaf.info/79062641</rdarole:author> <titleOfTheWork>Bluebeard: a novel</titleOfTheWork> <formOfWork>http://RDVocab.info/genre/1008</formOfWork> <originalLanguageOfTheWork>http://marclang.info/eng </> </frbrWork> New Jersey Library Association

  28. with links to the following expression information: *Language of expression: English *Content type: Text and one manifestation: *Statement designating edition: 1st trade edition *Place of publication: New York *Publisher’s name: Delacorte Press *Date of publication: 1987 *Extent of text: 300 pages *Identifier for the manifestation: [ISBN]0385295901 New Jersey Library Association

  29. Translated to RDA/XML: <frbrExpression ID="rda.basic/07”> <contentType>Text</contentType> <languageOfExpression>English<languageOfExpression> </frbrExpression> Upgraded to RDA/XML with Links: <frbrExpression ID="rda.basic/07”> <formOfWork>http://RDVocab.info/termList/RDAContentType/1020</> <languageOfExpression>http://marclang.info/eng </> </frbrExpression> New Jersey Library Association

  30. Translated to RDA/XML (with links below): <frbrManifestation ID="rda.basic/09”> <statementDesignatingEdition>1st Trade Edition</> <placeOfPublication>New York<placeOfPublication> <publishersName>Delacorte Press</publishersName> <dateOfPublication>1987</dateOfPublication> <extentOfText>300 pages</extentOfText> <identifierForTheManifestation>[ISBN]0385295901</> </frbrManifestation> <frbrManifestatiion ID="rda.basic/09”> <statementDesignatingEdition>1st Trade Edition</> <placeOfPublication>http://www.getty.edu/tgn/7007567</> <publishersName>http://onixpub.info/2039987</> <dateOfPublication>1987</dateOfPublication> <extentOfText>300 pages</extentOfText> <identifierForTheManifestation>urn:ISBN:0385295901</> </frbrManifestation> New Jersey Library Association

  31. FRBR Group 1 Work Exp: eng Man: eng New Jersey Library Association

  32. Jane begins her description by linking to the existing Work entity. She then creates an expression description: *Content type: text *Language of expression: Latvian *Translator: Grigulis, Arvīds She creates an authority record for the translator since none yet existed. She continues by creating a fuller description for the new manifestation, linking to the authority record for the Latvian publisher (what luck, it already existed!). *Title: [in Latvian] *Place of publication: Riga *Publisher’s name: Liesma *Date of publication: 1997 *Extent of Text: 315 pages New Jersey Library Association

  33. Translated to RDA/XML: <frbrExpression ID="rda.basic/11”> <contentType>text</contentType> <languageOfExpression>Latvian<languageOfExpression> <rdarole:translator>Grigulis, Arvīds</rdarole:translator> </frbrExpression> Upgraded to RDA/XML with Links: <frbrExpression ID="rda.basic/11”> <formOfWork>http://RDVocab.info/termList/RDAContentType/1020</> <languageOfExpression>http://marclang.info/lav </> <rdarole:translator>http://lcnaf.info/83219993 </frbrExpression> New Jersey Library Association

  34. Translated to RDA/XML (with links below): <frbrManifestation ID="rda.basic/09”> <title>[in Latvian]</> <placeOfPublication>Riga<placeOfPublication> <publishersName>Liesma</publishersName> <dateOfPublication>1997</dateOfPublication> <extentOfText>315 pages</extentOfText> </frbrManifestation> <frbrManifestatiion ID="rda.basic/09”> <placeOfPublication>http://www.getty.edu/tgn/7006484</> <publishersName>http://onixpub.info/6770094</> <dateOfPublication>1997</dateOfPublication> <extentOfText>315 pages</extentOfText> </frbrManifestation> New Jersey Library Association

  35. FRBR Group 1 Work Exp: eng Exp: lav Man: eng Man: lav New Jersey Library Association

  36. FRBR Group 2 FRBR Group 1 Work Author Translator Publisher Exp: eng Exp: lav Man: eng Man: lav New Jersey Library Association

  37. FRBR Group 2 FRBR Group 1 Work Author Translator Exp: eng Exp: lav Publisher Concepts Objects Events Places FRBR Group 3 Man: eng Man: lav Subjects New Jersey Library Association

  38. FRBR Group 2 FRBR Group 1 Work Author Translator Exp: eng Exp: lav Publisher Concepts Objects Events Places FRBR Group 3 Man: eng Man: lav Subjects Relationship Vocabularies Content Vocabularies Other Information In the “Cloud” Media Vocabularies New Jersey Library Association

  39. What Can We Do? Now that the revolution is upon us? New Jersey Library Association

  40. Looking Beyond Our Immediate Crisis • We need to: • Make our data harvestable so that others can use it • Identify our data structures and vocabularies for use on the web • Make our data more “data-like” (not so much for direct consumption by humans) • Make our systems more “cloud-like” New Jersey Library Association

  41. : Library Data New Jersey Library Association

  42. Library Data as Linked Open Data datebirth Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 family name fore name datedeath What important world events happened during his lifetime? Who was writing on science at the same time? What can you do with it? Show me a map of important places in his life New Jersey Library Association

  43. What Are the Challenges? • Coordination with JSC (or it’s successor, given the need to move beyond “Anglo-American”) on long-term maintenance planning • We need a lightweight, more participatory process, where change is not a multi-year marathon • Continuing development towards a more Semantic web-friendly RDA (even less reliance on transcription, for instance) • Tool development (at all levels, including ILS vendors) New Jersey Library Association

  44. How Soon Will All This Happen? • The bad news: This isn’t like 1981, when there was a “start date” and we knew exactly when to change gears • More bad news: This transition is likely to be a pretty messy one, and last longer than we would like • One unknown is OCLC’s role—at present they seem to be focused on consolidating control over library data and promoting WorldCat as an ILS • The good news: library vendors are starting to wake up and smell the coffee! New Jersey Library Association

  45. The RDA Testing Period • Testing what, exactly? • Attempting to determine whether RDA Online in its initial release offers sufficient benefit, compared to current methods, to achieve the objectives that the Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA has stated for the proposed new cataloging code • Based on the analysis of the test results, and considering the cost of implementation, the three US national libraries will determine whether to implement the initial release of RDA • Not clear what a “no” recommendation might imply New Jersey Library Association

  46. Testing Methodology • 20+ diverse test partners will create records, using a 20-25 item test set of resources • Each test partner will produce an RDA record and a record using its currently adopted cataloging code, e.g. AACR2, DACS, VRA, for each resource in the core test set (using different people) • Each record creator will fill out a questionnaire • The test partners will make available the records they create in this test to the Steering Committee for review and analysis New Jersey Library Association

  47. Taking Charge • Read, learn, question … • Keep an eye on the testing • Try out the RDA Tools (there may be a free period during the testing process) • Make some records, explore how they might work with non-traditional materials • Learn more about web technologies! • Play in the Registry Sandbox • (http://sandbox.metadataregistry.org) • Push your colleagues and administrators to participate New Jersey Library Association

  48. Thanks and Acknowledgements • Thanks to Karen Coyle for the use of some of her slides, as well as many hours of stimulating conversation about these issues … • Thanks to Jon Phipps, Registry Developer, for keeping me honest • Contact info for Diane: metadata.maven@gmail.com New Jersey Library Association

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