RDA: implementation

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RDA implementation

• Alan Danskin
• British Library Representative to JSC

CIG Standards Forum, CILIP, 26th September 2007
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Content

• Questions and answers
• Implementation schedule
• RDA Training Orientation
• Access to RDA
• RDA and data
• Implementation
• Communication

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RDA Questions and answers

• FAQ (Frequently asked questions)
• http//www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/rda.htmlfaq

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RDA release schedule
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Count down to implementation

• A more detailed timeline is in preparation
• Content development
• Product development
• Implementation activities world-wide, e.g.
• Documentation for Training Orientation
• MARC 21 and Dublin Core developments
• National plans

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RDA Orientation

• Main mode of access will be online
• Vocabulary will be different from AACR2
• -Influence of FRBR and metadata terminology
• Different structure
• Arranged by elements not material types
• Numbering of RDA instructions is different from
  AACR2
• Alternative and optional instructions

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RDA Orientation

• The landscape is familiar and the destination is
  the same, but the landmarks are different.
• RDA supports navigation
• Browsable contents lists
• Fully indexed
• Glossary
• Links between instructions
• Step-by-step option
• RDA online gives and idea of how this may look
• www.rdaonline.org

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RDA Orientation

• The landscape is familiar and the destination is
  the same, but the landmarks are different.
• Other aids to orientation
• JSC Concordance AACR2/RDA Wheres that rule?
• JSC Mapping MARC / RDA
• Application profile
• Courses

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RDA Training

• Rule changes
• Transcription
• General Material Designation (GMD)
• Internationalisation
• Generalisation
• Relationships
• Uniform titles
• New MARC 21 elements
• Library of Congress Rule Interpretations.
  (LCRIs)

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Training Documentation

• Stakeholders
• Committee of Principals
• National Libraries
• Options
• Library Associations
• ALA ALCTS RDA Task Group
• CILIP
• Co-operative programs
• Program for Co-operative Cataloging

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Access to RDA

• Co-publishers have not announced cost of RDA.
• New business model
• Different pricing structures
• Web Tool (Online)
• Catalogers Desktop (Online)
• Integrated with Cataloguing Interface
• Print

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Data issues

• RDA contains data elements not in MARC 21
• FRBR data structures not currently supported by
  MARC 21
• JSC preparing a mapping RDA/MARC 21
• MARBI Discussion paper 2008
• RDA records are intended to be compatible with
  AACR2
• Exchange
• Copy cataloguing workflows
• Resource discovery
• Retrospective changes to data kept to a minimum

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Implementation

• The national libraries British Library, Library
  Archives Canada, Library of Congress, National
  Library of Australia are committed to
  implementation.
• Implementation in 2009
• The national libraries are consulting with
  stakeholders bibliographic agencies, suppliers,
  system vendors and partners to make
  implementation as painless as possible.
• We want to hear from you

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Implementation thinking ahead

• Become familiar with FRBR and RDA before 2009
• Look at RDA online
• Keep up to date with developments
• Consider budgetary impacts of licensing RDA
• Consider impact on productivity during the
  implementation and bedding in period
• Do you need to adjust targets?
• Is your system vendor aware of RDA?
• Are there internal impacts on your catalogue?

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Communication

• RDA Website
• http//www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/rda.html
• British Library Web pages
• http//www.bl.uk/services/bibliographic/catstandar
  ds.htmlanglo
• alan.danskin_at_bl.uk
• CILIP/BL Committee
• http//www.slainte.org.uk/aacr/