FRAD A Personal View

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FRAD A Personal View

• Ed Jones
• ALA annual conference lt2008, Anaheim, CAgt

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Quote

• You see things and say Why? But I dream
  things that never were and I say Why not?
  Bernard Shaw (spoken by the Serpent to Eve in
  Back to Methuselah)

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What Im going to talk about

• 1 Records and data
• 2 GARR, we hardly know ye
• 3 Names and persons
• 4 Persons and attributes
• 5 How the Germans do it
• 6 Relationships, works, and names
• 7 What Im not going to talk about

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Records (to make catalog cards)
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How authority control worked in a card catalog

• On itemDepartment of Psychiatry, University of
  Heidelberg
• On card in drawer 1Department of
  Departments are entered under the name of the
  body or government to which they are subordinate
  (e.g., University of Reading. Dept. of
  Geography United States. Dept. of the Interior
  etc.)
• On card in drawer 2 at the other end of the
  catalogUniversity of Heidelberg see
  Heidelberg. Universität
• On card in drawer 3 Heidelberg. Universität.
  Dept. of Psychiatry see Heidelberg.
  Universität. Psychiatrische Klinik

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To summarizeAuthority records in a card catalog

• The system guided the user to the resource
• The system anticipated the users missteps
• The user couldnt make a typo
• The user got exercise
• The system was carbon-neutral

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Online, the card catalog doesnt work so well
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Futurama Data

• Tolstoy, Leo, 1828-1910
• Voi?na i mir. English
• lt Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910. War and peace
• Found His War and peace, 1983.
• Summary An epic novel of Russian society in the
  early 19th century. The war with Napoleon-led
  France is the backdrop to personal stories of
  members from four aristocratic families the
  Bezuhovs, Bolkonskys, Kuragins, and Rostovs.
  Love, death, war, spiritual struggle, and
  financial loss bring personal growth for the
  characters and underscore the main theme the
  search for the meaning of life.Cliff notes.
• Readability Fog 12.4, Flesch 61.7,
  Flesch-Kincaid 9.5
• 1. NAPOLEONIC WARS, 1800-1815CAMPAIGNSRUSSIAFIC
  TION
• 2. RUSSIAHISTORYALEXANDER I, 1801-1825FICTION
• Translation of ????? ? ???

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Sources GARR

• 1st ed. 1993 GAREGuidelines for Authority and
  Reference Entries
• 2nd ed. 2001 GARRGuidelines for Authority
  Records and References

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GARR prescribed punctuation
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GARR areas(authority records and displays)

• 1 Authorized heading area
• 2 Information note area
• 3 See reference tracing area
• 4 See also reference tracing area
• 5 Catalogers note area
• 6 Source area
• 7 ISADN area R.I.P.

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GARR in practice Bn-Opale
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GARR in practice (sort of) NACO
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FRAD sources

• FRBR
• GARR
• UNIMARC Authorities
• MLAR
• ISAAR(CPF)

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Bibliographic entities, names, and controlled
access points
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Bibliographic entities, names, and controlled
access points

• Džo Šmo (person)
• Džo Šmo (name)
• Šmo, Džo (controlled access point)
• Džo Šmo (controlled access point)
• Josef Schmo (name)
• Schmo, Josef (controlled access point)
• Josef Schmo (controlled access point)
• Joseph Jojo Chmeau (name)
• Chmeau, Joseph (controlled access point)
• Chmeau, Jojo (controlled access point)
• Joseph Jojo Chmeau (controlled access point)

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Undifferentiated personal name
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Alternate models

• Many persons, one name
• Manually change hdgs. on bib records as each
  person is set free
• One person, one name
• Automatically merge hdgs. on bib records as each
  person is set free

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Differentiated names

• Robert Baker (Disambiguation)
• Click on the appropriate name below
• Baker, Robert Joint author of Polaroid Land
  photography, etc.
• Baker, Robert Author of Dryland agriculture
  bibliography, etc.
• Baker, Robert Signer of The Steadfast tin
  soldier
• Baker, Robert Author of The Factory Acts made
  easy, etc.
• Baker, Robert U.S. Forest Service employee lt
  Baker, Spike

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Disambiguating with attributes
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Beyond undifferentiated namesNon-unique names
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Non-unique names Ambiguating
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FRAD person attributes

• From FRBR (AACR2 additions to names)Dates
  associated with the personTitle of personOther
  designation associated with the person
• NewGenderPlace of birthPlace of
  deathCountryPlace of residenceAffiliationAddre
  ssLanguage of personField of activityProfession
  /occupationBiography/history

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New attributes GermanMAB2-PND 815 Daten zur
Person in normierter Form

• a Dates of birth/death
• b Dates of activity
• c Place of birth
• d Place of death
• e Place of activity/address
• f Gender
• g Country USEFUL
• h Language of person USEFUL
• i Profession/occupation
• j Academic title (e.g., Professor)
• k Military rank
• l Titel von Universalgelehrten (e.g., Meister)
• m Personal relations (e.g., sister of Thomas
  Mann)
• u Other dates (e.g., exile)
• v Comments

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MARC21 AuthoritiesHow can we populate the
German attributes?

• Dates associated with the person 100d
• Title of person 100c
• Other associated designation 100c
• Gender 670a initial His or Her
• Place of birth 670b (free text) or 678 (free
  text)
• Place of death 670b (free text) or 678 (free
  text)
• Country 670b (free text)
• Place of residence 670b (free text) or 678
  (free text)
• Affiliation 670b (free text) or 678 (free text)
• Address 670b (free text)
• Language of person 670b (free text)
• Field of activity 670b (free text) or 678 (free
  text)
• Profession/occupation 670b (free text) or 678
  (free text)
• Biography/history 678 (free text)

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So what do the Germans do?
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Verknüpfte Publikationen
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Control numbers (not to be confused with
IDENTIFIERS)

• LC/n50036026
• DNB/118569740
• BNF/FRBNF120369116
• FOR control number GET element1, element2
  elementn

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The power of the control number

• http//catalogue.bnf.fr/ark/12148/ca11890041f/ISB
  D
• http//dispatch.opac.d-nb.de/DB4.1/REL?PPN118624
  822
• http//lccn.loc.gov/2004268170
• http//mirlyn.lib.umich.edu80/F/?funcdirectdoc_
  number001027163local_baseMIU01_PUB

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Wikipedia.de
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Wikipedia.de catalog search
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Wikipedia.de PND error reports
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Works and names (1)

• History of ltincoming link heregt
• ltincoming link heregt has been published under a
  succession of titles. Click on the appropriate
  link below
• 1923-1935Journal of the unchanging title
• 1936-1945Journal of the occasionally changing
  title, but only for a very good reason
• 1946-1971 International journal of the
  whimsically changing title
• 1972- Very annoying journal of the
  seemingly pointlessly changing title(title
  varies slightly and frequently)

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Works and names (2)

• History of ltincoming link heregt
• ltincoming link heregt has been known by a
  succession of names. Its history is given below.
  Click on the appropriate link below
• 1948-1961Organisation for European Economic
  Co-operation
• 1961-Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
  Development
• The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
  Development is an organization of industrialized
  countries, established in 1961 and based in
  Paris, which seeks to promote coordination of
  economic and social policies among members, to
  make resources of capital and training available
  to developing countries, to contribute to the
  expansion of world trade, and to foster
  cooperation in fields such as education, energy,
  and transport. It was created as a replacement
  for the Organisation for European Economic
  Co-operation, which had been formed in 1948 by
  those countries receiving aid under the Marshall
  Plan.A Dictionary of World History (Oxford UP,
  2000)

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New relationships membership

• Person ? member of ? Family
• Kennedy family (Joseph and Rose Kennedy)Search
  also under the names of its members
• John F. Kennedy
• Robert F. Kennedy
• Edward M. Kennedy
• Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
• etc.

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Bn-Opale
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New relationships hierarchical

• Subordinate body ? part of ? Superior body
• American Library AssociationSearch also under
  its componentsAssociation for Library
  Collections and Technical ServicesLibrary and
  Information Technology AssociationPublic Library
  Associationetc.

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New relationships FRBR

• Lord of the rings (J. R. R. Tolkien)
  Summary Impossible to summarize.
• Search also under the names of the 3 component
  books
• gtgt The fellowship of the ring (J. R. R. Tolkien)
• gtgt The two towers (J. R. R. Tolkien)
• gtgt The return of the king (J. R. R. Tolkien)
• and under the name of its predecessor
• gtgt The hobbit (J. R. R. Tolkien)

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What I didnt talk about
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What I really didnt talk about
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Conclusion

• As the FRBR conceptual model has encouraged us to
  look at bibliographic records in new ways, so the
  FRAD model encourages us to look at authority
  data in new ways
• Like libraries, these conceptual models are
  growing organisms

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4.3 Attributes of a corporate body

• Entity the German Foreign Office
• is known as Germany. Auswärtiges Amt and assigned
  infolccn/n50074159
• Is known as Deutschland. Auswärtiges Amt and
  assigned infod-nb.de/021177119
• Is known as Allemagne. Auswärtiges Amt and
  assigned infoark/12148/cb123509443
• But
• Germany applies to 1871-1945 and 1991
• Deutschland and Allemagne apply only to 1991

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AttributesDates associated with a corporate body

• 1871-1945
• Germany. Auswärtiges Amt
• Deutschland ltDeutsches Reichgt. Auswärtiges Amt
• Allemagne (1871-1945). Auswärtiges Amt
• 1990
• Germany. Auswärtiges Amt
• Deutschland. Auswärtiges Amt
• Allemagne. Auswärtiges Amt

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Identifiers (the entity)

• ISSNs may be assigned to more than one instance
  of a bibliographic entity
• Print original
• Reprint 1, 2, etc.
• Microfilm 1, 2, etc.
• Microfiche 1, 2, etc.

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VIAF
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Person

• Individual or persona
• natural or public identity ISNI

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RDA-FRAD mapping

• FRBR entity attributes well mapped
• NAME entity mapped as known by relationship
  from FRAD diagram
• CONTROLLED ACCESS POINT poorly mapped
• No Base access point attribute
• No Addition attribute
• Both overlap related FRBR entity attributes

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Deutsche Nationalbibliographie
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Deutsche Nationalbibliographie

• Smith, John (Künstler) (1652-1742)Lebensdaten
  1652-1742 Beruf/Funktion 4033423-5 Künstler

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Bibliographie nationale française

• Smith, John (1652-1742) Nationalité(s)
  Grande-BretagneSexe masculinResponsabilité(s)
  exercée(s) sur les documents AuteurNaissance
  1652, Daventrey, GBMort 1742, Northampton,
  GBProfession(s) peintre, dessinateur,
  graveurDomaine(s) d'expression artistique
  peinture, dessin, estampe

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NACO (UkLW)

• Smith, John, 1652-1743
• Found Allegorical figures of Love, Hope and
  Beauty struggling with the figure of Time.
  Mezzotint by J. Smith after S. Vouet)
• Found Oxford dictionary of national biography,
  2004 (Smith, John, 1652-1743 engraver in the
  first class of mezzotint engravers)

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Customizing attributes

• Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
• Life of Samuel Johnson
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.
• Authors, English18th centuryBiography.

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4.3 Attributes of a corporate body
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MARC21 Where are the attributes?

• Associated place
• Associated dates
• Associated other designation
• Type of body
• Language of body
• Address
• Field of activity
• History 678

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OPAC Whats the tag?

• 111 Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965
  Selma, Ala.)
• 150 Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character)
• 130 Time n 94056291
• 150 Time sh 85135395

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Library crosswalks

• VIAF

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Cross-sector crosswalks

• ltindecsgt primitives
• Being
• Thing
• Concept
• Event
• Situation

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Cross-sector crosswalk
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Undifferentiated headings

• As long as the identifier distinguishes them, the
  names themselves can be identical
• Easier to retroactively combine multiple records
  into one than to separate one into many