Setting a new standard

Resource Description and Access

Deirdre Kiorgaard18 September 2006

Outline• Why a new standard?

• Models behind RDA

• Issues in developing RDA

• Structure & content of RDA

• Who’s responsible

• Timeline for development & implementation

AACR “the most widely-used standard for descriptive cataloguing in the

English-speaking world” – 1967 – AACR 1st ed. – 1978

– 1988

– 1998

– 2002

Where does RDA fit?

Resource description

AACR RDA, CCO, RAD …

Subject description

LCSH, PRECIS, thesauri …

Classification DDC, LCC, UDC …

Content standards Encoding/Exchange/Interoperability FRBR

FRAR

MARC21, UNIMARC, MODS, MARCXML …

Dublin Core, AGLS,

EAD, TEI, ONIX

OAI, RDF, XML

Conceptual models

IdentifiersISBN, ISSN, BICI, PIs …

Beyond MARC

International Conference on the Principles & Future Development

of AACR (1997)

Logical structure of AACR2

What is a work?

Access points for works

Bibliographic relationships

AACR2 & catalogue production

Content versus carrier

Issues related to seriality

• Dec. 2004 - Draft of Part I of AACR3

• Dec. 2005 – Draft of Part I of Resource Description and Access

Towards RDA

Resource Description and Access

• Online resources & resource discovery services • Reducing the costs of creating resource descriptions• Creating richer resource descriptions

“Resource Description and Access is a new standard for description and

access designed for the digital world.” http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/stratplan.html

Concepts underlying RDA • FRBR:

– Functional Requirements of Bibliographic Records

• FRAR– Functional Requirements of Authority Records

• Statement of International Cataloguing Principles – IME-ICC: International Meetings of Experts for an

International Cataloguing Code

• Cataloguing Cultural Objects; Describing Archives; Rules for Archival Description

RDA & other standards

• Replacing ISBD areas & punctuation• Replacing material designations

– http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/working2.html#chair-10

• MARC

Issues in developing RDA • Backwards compatibility • “Take what you see”• Internationalisation and other resource

description communities• Persistent Identifiers and URLs

RDA StructureGeneral IntroductionPart A: Resource Description

Part B: Access Point Control

AppendicesGlossaryIndex

General IntroductionPart I: Description

Part II: Headings, Uniform titles & References

AppendicesIndex

AACR Structure

Part A: Resource Description Introduction to part A• General guidelines on resource description• Identification of the resource (Identify)• Technical (or carrier) description (Select)• Content description (Select)• Acquisition and access information (Obtain)• Related resources• Persons, families, and corporate bodies associated

with a resource

Part B: Access point control

Introduction to part B

8. General guidelines on access point control

9. Access points for persons

10. Access points for families

11. Access points for corporate bodies

12. Access points for places

13. Access points for works, etc.

14. Other information used in access point control

Appendices

• Appendix A. Capitalization• Appendix B. Abbreviations• Appendix C. Initial articles• Appendix D. Presentation of data• Appendix E. Presentation of access point control

data

• Glossary• Index

Who’s responsible?Committee

of Principals

AACR FundTrustees/

Co-Publishers

Joint SteeringCommittee ...

ALACC:DA

ACOC BL CCC CILIP LC

Timeline

• June 2006: Issue draft of 2nd part of Part A

• Dec. 2006: Issue draft of Part B

• June 2007: Issue General Introduction, Appendices, and Glossary

• Dec. 2007: Finalise all text

• 2008: Publish RDA

• 2008? Implementation ?

Implementation

• British Library• Library and Archives Canada• Library of Congress• National Library of Australia

National library commitment

Training, Documentation, Policy development

JSC outreach

• Library administrators• Library educators • System vendors• Other resource description

communities • National and international

programs • IFLA and other rule-making

bodies

ACOC

• ACOC website

• http://www.nla.gov.au/lis/stndrds/grps/acoc/acoc.html

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