Yee Cataloging Rules (YCR), or, Alternative RDA

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• Yee Cataloging Rules (YCR), or, Alternative RDA
• an experiment in designing a different approach
  to FRBR-izing the Anglo-American Cataloguing
  Rules with a focus on the rules for continuing
  resources
• Continuing Resources Cataloging Committee Update
  Forum
• Midwinter 2008, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• January 14, 2008

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INTRODUCTION

• Martha M. Yee
• Cataloging Supervisor
• UCLA Film Television Archive
• myee_at_ucla.edu
• As you can see, NOT a serials cataloger (I
  tremble before you!)

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WEB SITE

• http//myee.bol.ucla.edu
• Yee cataloging rules and RDF model

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

• Ive gotten a LOT of help from the following
  people
• Everett Allgood
• Sherman Clarke
• Renette Davis
• Greta de Groat
• Neil Hughes
• Ed Jones
• Kelley C. McGrath

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QUICK SUMMARY

• A quick summary of what the rules are trying to do

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QUICK SUMMARY

• 1. An experiment in designing rules that guide
  catalogers in mapping data elements to FRBR group
  1 entities (work, expression, manifestation, and
  item) so that the resulting records can be used
  to build FRBR-ized displays for users

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QUICK SUMMARY

• 2. A suggestion that we try to create entity
  definitions that are more likely to correspond to
  those of our users and those of catalogers in
  other countries to do this, the rules discard
  the change-of-name-is-change-of-identity
  principle.

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QUICK SUMMARY

• 3. An experiment in data modeling. I am working
  on an RDF (Resource Description Framework) model
  of the resultant rules to try to find weak spots
  in RDF where it cannot accommodate our data.

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1. FRBR MAPPING

• Continuing resources
• Work identified by latest title in conjunction
  with principal creator if applicable

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1. FRBR MAPPING

• Serials
• new work created only by splits and mergers
• not by title change
• not by restarting the numbering

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1. FRBR MAPPING

• Serials
• Expression for simultaneously released editions,
  such as different language editions or newspaper
  editions for different markets

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1. FRBR MAPPING

• Serials
• a new entity introduced called a
  title-manifestation to deal with major serial
  title changes
• minor title changes summarized in the
  title-manifestation description

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1. FRBR MAPPING

• Monographs
• an example of monographic title-manifestations
  would be an expression of a work that is
  simultaneously published in the United States and
  Great Britain under two different titles but with
  identical content

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1. FRBR MAPPING

• Serial
• a hollow shell containing other works underlying
  content changes with every issue
• therefore content change, which is fundamental
  for defining expression with monographs, cannot
  be used for defining FRBR entities for serials

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1. FRBR MAPPING

• Serials
• manifestation for copies in different physical
  formats or for copies distributed differently
  (e.g., print plus more than one online copy with
  different URLs plus microfilm copies from
  different publishers)

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1. FRBR MAPPING

• Degression
• work level all data elements that apply to every
  expression/title-manifestation/manifestation of
  the work

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1. FRBR MAPPING

• Degression
• expression level all data elements that apply to
  every title-manifestation/manifestation of the
  expression

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1. FRBR MAPPING

• Degression
• title-manifestation level all data elements that
  apply to every manifestation of the
  title-manifestation

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1. FRBR MAPPING

• Degression
• the same data element can migrate up and down the
  FRBR levels depending on the circumstances
• Example
• If all expressions, title-manifestations and
  manifestations are illustrated, the illustration
  statement goes at the work level and is not
  repeated at any of the lower levels

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1. FRBR MAPPING

• Record structure
• None specified in the rules. The rules could be
  used to create work-based records,
  expression-based records, title-manifestation-base
  d records, or manifestation-based records.

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1. FRBR MAPPING

• Display
• Fundamental principle on the web is to separate
  data definition from display
• All cataloging data is useless without effective
  display software
• In these rules, manifestation data would be
  incomprehensible if displayed without the context
  provided by title-manifestation, expression and
  work data

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2. REFORMED ENTITY DEFINITIONS

• Current approach
• Change of name is change of identity
• Change of title creates a new serial work
• Change of name in a corporate body creates a new
  corporate body

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2. REFORMED ENTITY DEFINITIONS

• Do users really consider change of name to be
  change of identity?
• This principle is a major source of confusion for
  users trying to find entities in our catalogs

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2. REFORMED ENTITY DEFINITIONS

• actual international agreement on which name
  changes cause entity change is unlikely (even
  though the principle is enshrined in Paris
  principles and ICP)
• our entity definitions would be more likely to
  agree internationally if we dropped the principle
  that change of name causes change of identity

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2. REFORMED ENTITY DEFINITIONS

• If we could agree on entity definitions
  internationally, it would be a lot easier to
  build a virtual international authority file

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2. REFORMED ENTITY DEFINITIONS

• A virtual international authority file could
  underpin the ability to use names commonly known
  in English in predominantly English-speaking
  libraries
• Example
• Palestine Liberation Organization
• Not
• Munazzamat al-Tahrir al-Filastiniyah

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2. REFORMED ENTITY DEFINITIONS

• A virtual international authority file could
  underpin the ability to allow OPAC users to
  define their language, script and transliteration
  preferences such that sophisticated software
  could switch to the preferred forms in the
  selected language, script and/or transliteration
  scheme for that user only

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3. RDF MODEL

• RDF (Resource Description Framework) is a flavor
  of XML that is the underpinning of Tim
  Berners-Lees semantic web being developed by the
  W3C. http//www.w3.org/2001/sw/
• As such, it has the potential to become as widely
  adopted as HTML has been.
• A language that can be used to define classes and
  properties, as well as relationships among them,
  in order to label data for publication and
  sharing over the web.

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3. RDF MODEL

• I have set up a blog to discuss problems that
  arise in the course of developing the RDF data
  model
• http//yeecatrule.wordpress.com

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3. RDF MODEL

• Im hoping that this will be a vehicle to help us
  as a community learn more about RDF so we are
  better equipped to evaluate RDF data models for
  our cataloging data.
• example the planned development of RDA as an RDF
  vocabulary for use in developing a Dublin Core
  application profile. http//dublincore.org/dcmirda
  taskgroup/FrontPage

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DISPLAY EXAMPLE

• Strongly disagree with RDAs abdication of any
  responsibility for display
• Yee rules collect the data and try to model it so
  as to support the display in your handout

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DISPLAY EXAMPLE

• Initial display of work among other works
• American Society for Information Science and
  Technology. Journal of the American Society for
  Information Science and Technology.

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DISPLAY EXAMPLE

• Display of work description once user has
  selected this work above
• American Society for Information Science and
  Technology. Journal of the American Society for
  Information Science and Technology.
• Original language English
• Began with v. 1 (Winter, 1938)
• Originally published in Chicago, Illinois, by
  the American Library Association.
• Type of content journal
• illustrated.
• Subject(s)
• Documentation--Periodicals.
• Information science--Periodicals.
• Discipline(s)
• Z1007.A477 General bibliography--Periodicals
• Editions (Expressions) in cases like this in
  which there is only one available expression,
  this display line could be replaced with the
  default display of the latest title-manifestation
  below, with the works related and works about
  links at the bottom
• Works related to this work
• Works about this work

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DISPLAY EXAMPLE

• Display of expressions once user has selected the
  hotlink above
• Work American Society for Information Science
  and Technology. Journal of the American Society
  for Information Science and Technology.
• English.

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DISPLAY EXAMPLE

• Display of English expression once user has
  selected the hotlink above (note that the latest
  title-manifestation displays as a default on the
  same screen with the expression description, with
  other title-manifestations available in the form
  of hotlinks below)
• Work American Society for Information Science
  and Technology. Journal of the American Society
  for Information Science and Technology. 2001-
• Language English.
• Began with v. 1 (Winter, 1938)
• Latest title (title-manifestation)
• Journal of the American Society for Information
  Science and Technology JASIST.
• Subtitles 2001- JASIST.
• Began with Vol. 52, no. 1 (Jan. 2001)-
• 2001-2004 New York, N.Y. John Wiley Sons,
  c2001-2004.
• 2005 Hoboken, N.J. John Wiley Sons, 2005-
• 2001-2004 Fourteen no. a year.
• 2005- Monthly, except twice in Jan. and Feb.
• Mode of issuance Issued in successive parts.
• ISSN-L 1532-2882
• Copies available
• Previous titles this expression has held
  (title-manifestations)

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DISPLAY EXAMPLE

• Display of other title-manifestations once user
  has selected the hotlink above
• Work American Society for Information Science
  and Technology. Journal of the American Society
  for Information Science and Technology.
• Previous titles (title-manifestations)
• 1938-1942 Journal of documentary reproduction.
  Copies available
• 1950-1969 American documentation. Copies
  available
• 1970-2000 Journal of the American Society for
  Information Science. Copies available

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DISPLAY EXAMPLE

• Display of manifestations of the latest
  title-manifestation once user has selected the
  'Copies available' hotlink above
• Work American Society for Information Science
  and Technology. Journal of the American Society
  for Information Science and Technology. 2001-
• 1. volumes 28 cm.
• ISSN 1532-2882
• 2. 1 online resource
• ISSN 1532-2890

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DISPLAY EXAMPLE

• Display of the American documentation
  title-manifestation once user has selected the
  '1950-1969 American documentation.' hotlink
  above
• Work American Society for Information Science
  and Technology. Journal of the American Society
  for Information Science and Technology.
• Title (title-manifestation) American
  documentation.
• 1950-1967 Washington, D.C. American
  Documentation Institute, c1950-1967.
• 1968-1969 Washington, D.C. American Society
  for Information Science, c1968-1969.
• Began with vol. 1, no. 1 (winter 1950)
• Ended with vol. 20, issue 4 (Oct. 1969)
• Frequency Quarterly.
• ISSN-L 0096-946X
• Copies available

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DISPLAY EXAMPLE

• Display of the manifestations of American
  documentation once user has selected the 'copies
  available' hotlink above
• Work American Society for Information Science
  and Technology. Journal of the American Society
  for Information Science and Technology.
• Title (title-manifestation) American
  documentation.
• 1. 20 volumes 27 cm.
• Mode of issuance Issued in successive parts.
• ISSN 0096-946X
• 2. 1 online resource
• Mode of issuance Issued in successive parts.
• ISSN 1936-6108
• 3. microfilm reels
• generation service copy
• Mode of issuance Issued in two or more parts
  simultaneously.
• ISSN 0096-946X

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DISPLAY EXAMPLE

• NOTE THAT THE FOLLOWING VARIANTS MUST BE STORED
  IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY CAN ALLOW A USER TO MATCH
  ON ANY VARIANT OF EITHER THE CREATOR NAME OR THE
  WORK TITLE USED IN THE WORK IDENTIFIER (SEE
  SECTION 1.3)
• Creator name variants
• ASIS T
• ASIST
• Work title variants
• J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci. and Tech.
• JASIST

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DISPLAY EXAMPLE

• NOTE THAT THE FOLLOWING TITLE VARIANTS SHOULD
  LEAD DIRECTLY TO THE PARTICULAR EXPRESSION OR
  EXPRESSIONS BEARING THAT TITLE (SEE SECTION 2.3)
• Journal of documentary reproduction
• American documentation
• Am. doc.
• Journal of the American Society for Information
  Science
• J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.
• JASIS

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DISPLAY EXAMPLE

• NOTE THAT THE FOLLOWING CORPORATE NAME VARIANTS
  SHOULD LEAD DIRECTLY TO THE PARTICULAR EXPRESSION
  OR EXPRESSIONS BEARING THAT NAME VARIANT IN THE
  EXPRESSION STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
• Science Service. Documentation Institute.
• Science Service. Documentation Division.
• American Documentation Institute.
• American Society for Information Science.

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CAVEATS

• Definitely experimental

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CAVEATS

• No expectation that anyone would actually
  implement

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CAVEATS

• A demonstration code to make the ideas behind it
  more concrete

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CAVEATS

• A think piece to get people to start imagining
  ways we could use current telecommunications
  technology (i.e. the internet) differently than
  we do now, in order to create better catalogs for
  our users