This document provides an overview and introduction to the RDA Toolkit. It explains that RDA Toolkit is a browser-based online product that allows users to interact with cataloging resources including RDA, RDA Element Set, AACR2, Library of Congress Policy Statements, examples, and mappings. It describes the different types of subscriptions, how to log in and navigate the interface, search features, and user-created content like workflows and bookmarks. It concludes by recommending users study FRBR concepts, take a training class, and connect with the RDA community.
I presented ALA's Annual Conference in Anaheim (#ALA12) to the AVIAC meeting (URL to ALA Connect). My topic was RDA Toolkit and how it relates to Library System vendors and other software and service developers. I included some background on RDA: Resource Description and Access and RDA Toolkit. I described and demo RDA Toolkit's free MARC based linking service. I invited vendors to read our RDA Toolkit Development blog and to participate in our regular Virtual User Group meetings. Finally I will describe our current plans and seek input from vendors on developing and distributing an RDA - Application Profile as a free part of RDA Toolkit
An introduction to Metadata Application Profileskcoylenet
These slides are from a DCMI/ASIS&T webinar on metadata application profiles. It gives a high level introduction to profiles, provides examples of what they might look like, and shows some work being done through W3C and DCMI.
Islandora is a digital asset management system that provides out-of-the-box repository solutions for a wide range of digital collections and research domains. This presentation will examine standard and custom-built functionality of Islandora through a Linked Open Data (LOD) lens. The concepts of connecting related data across the Web using URIs, HTTP and RDF will be discussed in the Islandora+Fedora context, including strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement in the future.
Frances McNamara - Discovery strategies for Kuali OLE - VuFind at the Univers...Kuali Days UK
Presented by Frances McNamara, Director, Integrated Library Systems and Administrative and Desktop Systems at the University of Chicago.
Presentation given on the University of Chicago VuFind discovery layer implementation at the Kuali Days UK conference, 29 October 2013.
The session focused on discovery layer choices – software-as-a-service, open source or community source – of three libraries that are actively planning integration with Kuali OLE, including perspectives from the University of Chicago, Indiana University and the University of London and featured specific use cases for OLE discovery layer implementations at their institutions and what influenced their choices.
Libraries around the world have a long tradition of maintaining authority files to assure the consistent presentation and indexing of names. As library authority files have become available online, the authority data has become accessible -- and many have been published as Linked Open Data (LOD) -- but names in one library authority file typically had no link to corresponding records for persons and organizations in other library authority files. After a successful experiment in matching the Library of Congress/NACO authority file with the German National Library's authority file, an online system called the Virtual International Authority File was developed to facilitate sharing by ingesting, matching, and displaying the relations between records in multiple authority files.
The Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) has grown from three source files in 2007 to more than two dozen files today. The system harvests authority records, enhances them with bibliographic information and brings them together into clusters when it is confident the records describe the same identity. Although the most visible part of VIAF is a HTML interface, the API beneath it supports a linked data view of VIAF with URIs representing the identities themselves, not just URIs for the clusters. It supports names for person, corporations, geographic entities, works, and expressions. With English, French, German, Spanish interfaces (and a Japanese in process), the system is used around the world, with over a million queries per day.
Speaker
Thomas Hickey is Chief Scientist at OCLC where he helped found OCLC Research. Current interests include metadata creation and editing systems, authority control, parallel systems for bibliographic processing, and information retrieval and display. In addition to implementing VIAF, his group looks into exploring Web access to metadata, identification of FRBR works and expressions in WorldCat, the algorithmic creation of authorities, and the characterization of collections. He has an undergraduate degree in Physics and a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science.
View the slides from publisher Troy Linker and the RDA Toolkit staff of the free webinar given live in four sessions Nov 10 - 11, 2010 showcasing some of the new functionality and content added to the RDA Toolkit since the end of the open-access period (August 31).
The webinar will include
* LCPS (Library of Congress Policy Statements)-now included
in the RDA toolkit. See a demo, including interactivity with RDA
* Accessing and using globally and locally shared workflows
* Creating and sharing your own workflows
* Links from AACR2 to RDA
* Using RDA Toolkit support , including new how-to videos
* Discussion of future enhancements
I presented ALA's Annual Conference in Anaheim (#ALA12) to the AVIAC meeting (URL to ALA Connect). My topic was RDA Toolkit and how it relates to Library System vendors and other software and service developers. I included some background on RDA: Resource Description and Access and RDA Toolkit. I described and demo RDA Toolkit's free MARC based linking service. I invited vendors to read our RDA Toolkit Development blog and to participate in our regular Virtual User Group meetings. Finally I will describe our current plans and seek input from vendors on developing and distributing an RDA - Application Profile as a free part of RDA Toolkit
An introduction to Metadata Application Profileskcoylenet
These slides are from a DCMI/ASIS&T webinar on metadata application profiles. It gives a high level introduction to profiles, provides examples of what they might look like, and shows some work being done through W3C and DCMI.
Islandora is a digital asset management system that provides out-of-the-box repository solutions for a wide range of digital collections and research domains. This presentation will examine standard and custom-built functionality of Islandora through a Linked Open Data (LOD) lens. The concepts of connecting related data across the Web using URIs, HTTP and RDF will be discussed in the Islandora+Fedora context, including strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement in the future.
Frances McNamara - Discovery strategies for Kuali OLE - VuFind at the Univers...Kuali Days UK
Presented by Frances McNamara, Director, Integrated Library Systems and Administrative and Desktop Systems at the University of Chicago.
Presentation given on the University of Chicago VuFind discovery layer implementation at the Kuali Days UK conference, 29 October 2013.
The session focused on discovery layer choices – software-as-a-service, open source or community source – of three libraries that are actively planning integration with Kuali OLE, including perspectives from the University of Chicago, Indiana University and the University of London and featured specific use cases for OLE discovery layer implementations at their institutions and what influenced their choices.
Libraries around the world have a long tradition of maintaining authority files to assure the consistent presentation and indexing of names. As library authority files have become available online, the authority data has become accessible -- and many have been published as Linked Open Data (LOD) -- but names in one library authority file typically had no link to corresponding records for persons and organizations in other library authority files. After a successful experiment in matching the Library of Congress/NACO authority file with the German National Library's authority file, an online system called the Virtual International Authority File was developed to facilitate sharing by ingesting, matching, and displaying the relations between records in multiple authority files.
The Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) has grown from three source files in 2007 to more than two dozen files today. The system harvests authority records, enhances them with bibliographic information and brings them together into clusters when it is confident the records describe the same identity. Although the most visible part of VIAF is a HTML interface, the API beneath it supports a linked data view of VIAF with URIs representing the identities themselves, not just URIs for the clusters. It supports names for person, corporations, geographic entities, works, and expressions. With English, French, German, Spanish interfaces (and a Japanese in process), the system is used around the world, with over a million queries per day.
Speaker
Thomas Hickey is Chief Scientist at OCLC where he helped found OCLC Research. Current interests include metadata creation and editing systems, authority control, parallel systems for bibliographic processing, and information retrieval and display. In addition to implementing VIAF, his group looks into exploring Web access to metadata, identification of FRBR works and expressions in WorldCat, the algorithmic creation of authorities, and the characterization of collections. He has an undergraduate degree in Physics and a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science.
View the slides from publisher Troy Linker and the RDA Toolkit staff of the free webinar given live in four sessions Nov 10 - 11, 2010 showcasing some of the new functionality and content added to the RDA Toolkit since the end of the open-access period (August 31).
The webinar will include
* LCPS (Library of Congress Policy Statements)-now included
in the RDA toolkit. See a demo, including interactivity with RDA
* Accessing and using globally and locally shared workflows
* Creating and sharing your own workflows
* Links from AACR2 to RDA
* Using RDA Toolkit support , including new how-to videos
* Discussion of future enhancements
ALA Digital Reference Publisher Troy Linker joined Amigos Library Services at "RDA @ Your Library: An Online Conference about Resource Description and Access" in early February to present "AACR2 to RDA: Using the RDA Toolkit." He offered background and tips for making a successful transition from AACR2 to RDA and how the RDA Toolkit can help
Oss and libraries enabling arabic libraries and creating opportunitiesMassoud AlShareef
What is Open Source?
Who is using Open Source?
Open Source Community and Governance
Why should libraries care?
Library Software Overview
Open Source and Library Software today
Open Source and Arabic Libraries today
Why should Arabic libraries care even more?
Arabic Library Software Success Stories
Creating Opportunities: Open Source Software should play a role in driving our National ICT Strategy?
This session is from the COMO 2013 Preconference presented by Guy Frost, Valdosta State University. The full PPT is provided here on SlideShare; to follow along with the audio, visit this link: https://valdosta.sharestream.net/ssdcms/i.do?u=9fc34b6f918b421
Learn the basics of this open source content management system and how you can create a robust website quickly and full of tools that will engage your users. This presentation will also focus on configuration, popular modules for libraries, and tips for best practice and ongoing maintenance.
Challenges and opportunities in library discovery services genrobin fay
A 2016 survey conducted by Simon Inger Consulting found that library web pages (i.e. search engines) are as important to many academics as abstracting and indexing sources. At the same time, library service platforms such as WMS and Alma have been widely adopted, but the “discovery of library-provided resources remains a complex issue with many unfulfilled expectations… and many challenges remain in improving discoverability” as noted by Marshall Breeding in his 2018 library systems report.
This short presentation was designed to highlight strengths and weaknesses of search discovery tool for libraries while identifying opportunities to improve the discoverability of our resources using the catalog.
Presentation & Discussion May 2018
Content Registration at Crossref - LIVE Kuala LumpurCrossref
Rachael Lammey, Head of Community Outreach, talks about the various ways publish register their content and deposit metadata at Crossref. Presented at Crossref LIVE Kuala Lumpur, 8 July 2019.
The webinar held 6 October 2020.
The webinar is relevant for new and existing Crossref members, publishers, editors, researchers, service
providers, hosting platforms, funders, librarians; really anyone interested in finding out a bit more about what
Crossref is and does.
This webinar covers:
• How to register content with Crossref
• How to make updates to your metadata in order to make changes, corrections, or to add more detail
• Participation reports
• Additional services and where to find help.
Sessions presented in English by Crossref staff.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...
05.16 rda toolkit essentials
1. RDA Toolkit Essentials
Presented by
James Hennelly
ALA Digital Reference
American Library Association
2. Chat and Ask Questions
Use the Webinar User Panel to:
• Select or change your audio options
• IM questions to RDA Toolkit staff
3. What is RDA?
RDA: Resource Description and Access is …
• a standard for bibliographic description, not a
display standard
• a standard based on the FRBR conceptual
model
4. What is RDA?
FRBR Entities
• Group 1:
Work, Expression, Manifestation, and
Item
• Group 2: Person, Family, and Corporate
Name
5. What is RDA?
Familiarize yourself with FRBR concepts and
terminology.
Resources
JSC - www.rda-jsc.org/rda.html
IFLA - http://www.ifla.org/en/frbr-rg
Also consult resources at your national library.
6. What is RDA Toolkit?
RDA Toolkit is an integrated, browser-
based, online product that allows users to
interact with a collection of cataloging-related
documents and resources including RDA.
7. What is RDA Toolkit?
• RDA
• RDA Update History
• RDA Element Set
• AACR2
• Library of Congress Policy Statements
• Examples of RDA Cataloging
• RDA Mappings
• User-Created Content
10. Logging In
Log in at http://access.rdatoolkit.org/
Solo-User Account
Institutional Account
-IP authentication
-Referring URL
-Account ID authentication
13. Profiles
Solo-User accounts are automatically logged
into their profiles.
Members of an Institutional account must
create a profile in order to take full advantage
of RDA Toolkit’s content and functionality.
51. Where Do I Start?
• Other Documents
– RDA Element Set
– AACR2
– RDA Mappings
– Examples
• Workflows
– Shared
– Private
• Advanced Search
52.
53.
54.
55.
56. What Should I Do Now?
• Sign up for Free Trial (if you haven’t yet)
• Study FRBR
• Take a training class and ask for Post-Event
Access
• Connect with the RDA Community through
the blog, Virtual User Group, RDA-L, etc.
Hello and welcome to: RDA Toolkit EssentialsMy name is James Hennelly, and I and my colleagues at ALA Digital Reference, Troy Linker and Dan Kaplan, will guide you through the basics of using RDA Toolkit.This presentation will be recorded and available at rdatoolkit.org/essentials. This slide presentation will also be archived there.
Please use the chat function in the webinar user panel to submit questions to the other RDA staff on the webinar with me today. In normal mode the right side of your screen should contain the full user panel, however in full screen mode the webinar user panel is minimized to the lower right corner of your screen as shown. Clicking the thought bubble icon will open up the chat window so you can submit a question or you may select the “Esc” key to exit full screen mode regaining access to the full user panel. In the chat box please select “All Presenters” to chat with Alison Elms who will be collecting your RDA Toolkit specific questions for the Q&A session at the end of the webinar. We would like to address as many questions as possible.If you have technical questions about the webinar software please select “Host” to chat with Dan Kaplan who is with us to answer any Webinar-related questions.This webinar is being recorded and will be posted on the RDA Toolkit website. You will get an email after the session with a link to the archived recording.
I think most of you are aware that RDA is the new cataloging standard created with the intention of succeeding AACR2. I’m not going to go into a lot of detail regarding RDA itself, but it is important to note two key aspects of RDA in regard to using RDA Toolkit. Bib description, not display. RDA explains what information to record about an item. But it will not tell you how to display the title, edition, or publication statements. You should follow your institution’s preference, most likely ISBDRDA and thus RDA Toolkit take their structure from FRBR, and from what we have heard from trainers and testers, a comfort level with basic FRBR and FRAD concepts is essential to RDA cataloging.
The FRBR entities (and FRAD) provide the structural foundation of RDA are crucial to navigating the RDA TOC. RDA is about describing these entities and identifying the relationships between these entities.
Much more information is available at our website, the JSC and IFLA websites, the LC and other national library websites.
RDA is the primary document on RDA Toolkit. RDAToolkit is the best way to interact with the RDA standard.
Here are the documents that you will currently find on RDA Toolkit. Of course, we hope to add more in the future. We will also be adding links to other off-site documents.
Here is some of the information you can find on the RDA Toolkit site.
Solo-User subscriptions are appropriate for small libraries with a cataloging staff of one. It comes with only one profile. This is the most affordable option. Institutional subscriptions are for those with cataloging staffs of two or more. The institutional sub allows for an unlimited number of profiles. Can also purchase concurrent users, which is similar to owning multiple holdings of a book—there is a limited number but the item can be checked out by a whole range of people.There is lots of information on pricing on the website. Rates vary and there is special pricing for consortial purchases. Contact us at rdatoolkit@ala.org if you have query about consortial purchases.
Solo-User: logs in with User Nameand password, only one user and one profileInstitutional: can log in 3 different ways, concurrent users (depending on purchase), unlimited number of profilesAuthentication verifies that you are a subscriber to RDA Toolkit, and allows you to access the primary documents on RDA Toolkit. It does not allow you access to private documents created by you or your colleagues.
Here’s is the screen you see when you arrive at RDA Toolkit. The site should work with the commonly used versions of IE, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome browsers.The login is in the upper right. Note the blank blue space in the corner. This is an indicator that you are not logged in or “authenticated”. Enter your Account ID in the field labeled Account ID and your associated password in the password field. Click login.
Here you can see that you are authenticated into RDA Toolkit by the appearance of your institution name at the upper right corner. In my case the institution is ALA. Now you have access to the major documents on RDA Toolkit and publically shared user-created content. But you do not have the ability to access private content or to create new content. To gain full access to RDA Toolkit functionality you need to log into (or create) a profile.Here’s how to do that. The User Name field has been replaced with a field labeled Profile Name. Here is where you enter login to your profile. Your login is your personally selected profile name and password. Note the Email Password button that now appears here.
Create workflows, mapping, bookmarks. Share your content with others at your institution. In the future there will be a greater list of user preferences that must be set through your profile.
Here’s the form for creating a profile. It is simple and straight forward. It will only take a minute to fill out.
Here you can see that I am logged into my profile by the large “welcome” in the upper right corner. Now is a good time to look at the User menu. You can see that the user menu now has a “Log Out” button. The support button will take you to the support center where you can open a ticket for any problem you are having with the site. My Profile will open the menu that allows you to manage your profile login and personal preferences and to access your personal content. Here you will find your bookmarks, saved searches, workflows, and mappings. We’ll cover the Search buttons in a little bit.
Here are the primary navigation features of RDA Toolkit. You can browse through the expanding/collapsing TOC in the left column or through the fully expanded print TOC.
In the January 2012 we introduced icons to the RDA Toolkit navigation. Here’s the full list.
If you mouse over an icon, you will see it’s label.
By breaking chapters into pages we sped up the loading times dramatically. The pages are listed in the top left corner of the text section of the display. There are Previous and Next Page buttons. Users can also click directly to a page within a chapter. Brackets around a page number indicate the page you are currently viewing.
Now here we can see by clicking on + or – you can expand and collapse the browse tree of RDA.
Click TOC and you will see an online version of the print TOC. This is a flat, fully-expanded (to the X.X level) TOC like the one you find in the print version. It is fully linked as well. This is free content that can be downloaded as a PDF and printed for offline use.
View Text let’s you choose between full text, Basic Instructions, and “Core” instructions. You can make the display cleaner and speed up scrolling by hiding examples.
Synch TOC is a good tool for when you lose track of where you are. In this screen shot you can see several important aspects to the RDA display. In the yellow are examples of the instructions. You can turn these on and off from the View Text menu. You can also see blue RDA links, green LCPS links and brown glossary links. These links are of course an efficient nav tool.
Also in the left column nav are two important tabs. Switching from a document under one of these tabs to RDA means simply clicking the tab, you will not lose your place in either document.Tools tab: RDA Element Set—instructions by FRBR/FRAD entities; RDA Mappings are JSC between RDA and MARC and MODS; User created workflow and Mappings (we’ll cover these later); ERD and Schemas are diagrams and machine readable representations of data elements. These last two are really tools for data developers and IT staff. Resources tab: AACR2 (an entry point to RDA) and LCPS (provides added information for applying RDA instructions—RDA equivalent of LCRI); Other Resources concludes offsite documents and tools such as Cataloger’s Desktop, Open Metadata Registry, MARC Standards, etc.
Here’s a look inside the Element Set. It organizes instructions around an attribute or relationship.
Here’s an image of the RDA Mapping. It is fairly detailed, but also a bit of a work in progress.
Here’s a look at LCPS. Note the green tint that helps identify that you are in LCPS.
A look a the Examples document. This is a free PDF that anyone can download and print out.
A look at the Update History section and its Instruction Archive.
The Update Summary.
In this section we’ll go over the quick search, the advanced search, and the search results display.
RDA Quick Search searches only RDA content. The simplest and best search to do is an RDA number search. Simply type in an RDA number and hit search (or enter) and you will be taken directly to the instruction. A search of 6.2.2.10 takes you directly to instruction 6.2.2.10.Second best is to use RDA terminology to get better search results. Note that this rule is for preferred title. This would be called a uniform title in AACR2. Index is a good place to find AACR2 terms and determine their RDA equivalents.
You can put quotation marks around an RDA number search to find cross references and children. By adding quotations marks you are telling the search engine to look at this sequence of numbers, and you will get hits for that sequence that are not x-refs to the original search. In this example you can see that results 2-4 are children; results 5 and 6 are x-refs. Search engines are what they are, and you will get some chaff with this type of search. Try “uniform title” with phrasing as well. It will take you to a useful table.
Using quotation marks in this manner is called phrasing, and it can be a valuable search technique. A search of variant title without phrasing yields 113 results, with phrasing it drops to 69. Try “uniform title” with phrasing as well. It will take you to a useful table.
Use the wildcard, an asterisk, to improve recall. Some systems use a ? For wildcard, but here we are using an *. A search of abbreviation returns 31 results, but if I search abbrev* I get 93 results including hits on abbreviate, abbreviated, abbreviation and abbreviations.
The Advanced search menu allows you to filter by document type or metadata. Expand the Document TOC list to broaden search or focus it. Instruction types were tagged by JSC members and should prove to be a useful way filtering to get a precise results. When you find that excellent set of results, do save it. Filtering for “Core” not get you the Core Elements of the RDA data model, but rather the instructions that the JSC considers to “core” to understanding.[Try Preferred Title search with Moving Images Only filter]
You can search RDA by AACR2 number, though we recommend that you truncate and add a wildcard to the AACR2 number you want to search to improve your number of hits. [Search 12.1b8 for change in title proper for a Continuing Resource and then truncate with wild card to expand results.] Note the first search of a specific AACR2 number gets 2 hits, and below is with the truncation and wildcard getting 16 hits.
When you find that excellent set of results, do save it.[Try creating a saved search for "period of activity" "access point“ which will give a nice collection of instructions regarding period of activity for a person.]
Note the Sort option in the upper right of the search results display. The default is by relevance, but you can now sort by document order., as shown here. This will sort RDA by rule number, and other documents by the order that the appear in the Advance Search menu. At the bottom of the page you can also see the nav for the results page. Results display 25 per page. You can use next and previous to move between results. The drop down menu allows you to jump to a specific page of results.
Describe the next and previous hit keys. They exist only within a chapter. Must go back to the results list to move to different chapter. The difference between hits and results is that hits occur every time a search term is matched, results are the items (instructions) listed in your search results.
Workflows are a powerful tool. These documents can serve as a cheat sheet, an internal policy statement, or a how-to. Most of the current workflows serve as guides to RDA cataloging of specific formats.You can create your own mappings to schema or other standards. This is rather complicated work.Bookmarks are not shared and serve as your own personal notes on where a certain instruction is and how you might apply it.
Workflows can be a powerful tool for a step by step guide for cataloging a specific format type. Here you can see the “TOC” in the workflow for the LC Simple Book workflow. Each step listed links to a specific point in the document.
Here is a screen shot of the middle of the workflow from LC’s simple book workflow for MARC. Note links to rules and glossary and RDA element set view.
Here is the Create Workflow form. Give the Workflow a name–follow conventions of naming your institution first in the name then the subject of the workflow. You can Create New or Copy Existing. I recommend copying an existing WF that you have found really useful. But remember to credit the creator of the WF you copy.
Here’s the workflow workspace. It has the look o a Word cod, but it is an HTML editor and does not function exactly like Word. You will be asked if you want to share a Workflow globally, locally (meaning it is shared only within your institutional account), or not at all.Mapping basically works the same way. The workspace and sharing rule are the same.
Here is the manage bookmarks form. Use it to add bookmarks, navigate to bookmarks, or edit (delete or reset).[Search “uniform title” and create a bookmark for table.]
Here’s the add bookmark form. Give title and note.
Here’s an example of a note in the bookmark. Mouse over the bookmark to see the note.
Where do I start working in RDA Toolkit?RDA Element Set is a good place to start if you have questions about a specific attribute or relationship. If you have a familiarity with AACR2 or MARC you might be comfortable approaching RDA cataloging through AACR2, Examples, or the RDA mappings.Workflows are potentially the most powerful tool for supplying an entry into RDA cataloging.
Here’s a look inside the Element Set. It organizes instructions around an attribute or relationship. This can be a good starting point if you have questions about a specific attribute. MARC linking in Connexion and Cataloger’s desktop and others will takes you to ESV.
AACR2 has links to related RDA rules. This is the same data set used by the “search RDA by AACR2 number” in Advanced search. Also, consider the Index which includes AACR2 terms and will direct you to RDA equivalent.
Here’s an image of the RDA Mapping. It is fairly detailed, but also a bit of a work in progress.
Workflows can be a powerful tool for a step by step guide for cataloging a specific format type.
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Thanks for attending. A recording of this webinar will be available on the Essentials page at RDA Toolkit. Essentials will be back in two months. Hopefully you found this webinar useful and will recommend Essentials to your colleagues. And of course feel free to come back if you have a new question. Also, you can always email us at rdatoolkit@ala.org.