RDA: preview of coming attractions

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RDA preview of coming attractions

• Technical ServicesNovember 17, 2010
• John AttigAnn CopelandRob Freeborn

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Preview of coming attractions

• What is RDA?
• Why is RDA?
• Status of RDA
• Policy for use and creation of RDA records
• Implementation and training plans
• Some new features of RDA records

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What is RDA?

• RDA Resource Description and Access
• RDA is a new cataloging code that will replace
  AACR2
• New cataloging standard for creating
  bibliographic and authority records

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Why replace AACR?

• AACR2 (1978) is showing its age
• The world has changed since 1978
• The Internet happened!
• The place of the catalog in our information
  retrieval strategies has changed
• Other descriptive metadata standards are now
  widely used in libraries
• A change was needed to bring cataloging into this
  new world

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Why replace AACR?

• RDA is based on internationally established
  principles and models
• Statement of International Cataloguing Principles
• Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records

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Why replace AACR?

• FRBR User Tasks
• FIND
• IDENTIFY
• SELECT
• OBTAIN
• FRBR Entities
• e.g. WORK, PERSON, PLACE
• FRBR Attributes and Relationships

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Why replace AACR?

• RDA is designed to operate in a digital
  environment
• Linked data principlesbreak data down into its
  individual components and link these components
• RDA points towards new ways of thinking about
  cataloging and new ways of doing cataloging

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Why replace AACR?

• Most of us will use RDA
• to create bibliographic and authority records
• encoded in MARC 21
• structured according to the ISBD
• For such catalogers, cataloging will not change
  significantly

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Status of RDA

• RDA was published in June 2010
• RDA is currently being tested by the three U.S.
  national libraries and about 25 testing partners
• Test lasts from Oct.-Dec. 2010
• Test evaluation and decision Jan.-March 2011

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Status of RDA

• RDA records created by the testers and others
  will appear in OCLC
• New RDA headings are being created in NACO
• RDA headings are being added to existing NACO
  authority records7XX fields

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Penn State policy

• During the test (and until further notice)
• Use RDA bibliographic records for copy just as
  you would AACR records
• Do not create RDA original records or modify RDA
  records for BIBCO
• Do not create RDA authority records in NACO

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Implementation and Training Plans

• In April 2011, the U.S. national libraries will
  announce a decision regarding implementation of
  RDA and an implementation date
• PCC programs (NACO, BIBCO) will modify their
  standards and revise their documentation and
  training materials

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Implementation and Training Plans

• Background orientation
• FRBR and cataloging principles
• Changes to cataloging rules
• Changes to MARC
• Resources developed by other libraries
• Webinars
• Presentations
• PCC training materials(when available)

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RDA Toolkit

• The published text of RDA is called RDA Toolkit
• Online product available on the Web
• Linked with Catalogers Desktop
• Limited access this year, full access before
  implementation in 2011

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More information about RDA

• RDA page on the Cataloging websitehttp//www.lib
  raries.psu.edu/psul/cataloging/catref/rda.html
• Frequently-asked questions
• This presentation
• Examples
• OCLC policy on RDAhttp//www.oclc.org/us/en/rda/
  policy.htm
• LC testing websitehttp//www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso
  /RDAtest/rdatest.html

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Some new features of RDA records

• How to tell when you have an RDA record
• Look for e rda in the 040 field
• 040 CaQMU c CaQMU e rda

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Some new features of RDA records

• Rule of Three is no more
• AACR2
• 245 10 Bibliographie du department Urbanisation
  et socio-systèmes urbains 1982-1987 / c comité
  de redaction, L. Bourgeois et al..
• RDA
• 245 10 Bibliographie du department Urbanisation
  et socio-systèmes urbains 1982-1987 / c comité
  de redaction, L. Bourgeois, J.P. Duchemin, E. Le
  Bris, A. Sinou.

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Some new features of RDA records

• Fewer abbreviations
• 260 S.l. b Orstom ... ? (AARC2)
• 260 Place of publication not identified b
  Orstom ... ? (RDA)
• 300 208 p. c 24 cm. ? (AACR2)
• 300 208 pages c 24 cm. ? (RDA)

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Some new features of RDA records

• No more GMDs (General Material Designators)
• 245 15 Eine Nacht in Venedig h sound
  recording ? (Omit in RDA)
• Some changes to SMDs (Specific Material
  Designators)
• 300 1 sound disc ? (AACR2)
• 300 1 audio disc ? (RDA)

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Some new features of RDA records

• Three new fields (336, 337, 338)
• 336 - Content Type (2 rdacontent)
• What is it?
• cartographic dataset
• notated music
• performed music
• text
• two-dimensional moving image

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337 Media Type (2 rdamedia) How is it stored? 338 Carrier Type(2 rdacarrier) Where is it stored?
audio audio disc audiocassette
computer computer disc online resource
microform microfiche microfilm reel
video videocassette videodisc
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• AACR2
• 300 1 sound disc (78 min., 51 sec.) b
  digital c 4 3/4 in.
• 500 Compact disc.
• RDA
• 300 1 audio disc (78 min., 51 sec.) b
  digital, 1.4 m/s, CD audio c 12 cm.
• 336 performed music 2 rdacontent
• 337 audio 2 rdamedia
• 338 audio disc 2 rdacarrier

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Relationship designations

• Use of relationship designations
• 700 1 Zell, F., d 1829-1895, e librettist.
• 700 1 Korngold, Erich Wolfgang, d 1897-1957,
  e arranger of music.
• 700 1 Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth, e singer.
• 700 1 Ackermann, Otto, d 1909-1960,e
  conductor.
• 700 1 i libretto based on (work) a Cormon,
  Eugène, d 1810-1903. t Château-Trompette.
• 710 2 Philharmonia Orchestra (London, England),
  e performer.

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Some new features of RDA records

• 046 ?f 17880122 ?g 18240419 coded dates
• 053 0 PR4350 ?b PR4398
• 100 1 Byron, George Gordon Byron, ?c Baron,
  ?d 1788-1824
• 370 London, England ?b Aitolia kai Akarnania,
  Greece ?c Great Britain ?c Greece ?s 1788 ?t
  1824 place of birth place of death
• 374 poet occupation
• 375 male gender

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New Fictitious entities as names

• RDA
• 100 0 a Miss Piggy
• 670 a Miss Piggys guide to life, 2008
  t.p. (by Miss Piggy as told to Henry Beard)
• AACR2
• 150 Miss Piggy (Fictitious character)
• 450 Piggy, Miss (Fictitious character)
• 670 Work cat. The diva code, Miss Piggy on
  life ... c2009.

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• . . . Questions?