RDA Toolkit Essentials provides an overview of the RDA Toolkit and how to use it. The RDA Toolkit allows users to access RDA standards and related materials. It includes RDA rules, examples, mappings from AACR2 to RDA, and user-created content like workflows and bookmarks. The presentation covers logging in, navigating the interface, searching, and using profiles to customize the view. It recommends starting with FRBR concepts and exploring additional documents before taking a training class or connecting with the RDA community.
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.
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
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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.
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
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
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.
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
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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.
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
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
Emerging technologies in academic libraries. A department by department overview. Data visualization, online reference, nextGen library platforms, open source software, digital asset and archive management systems, digital humanities, scientific and creative software, new physical spaces for libraries.
Here there will be no fancy words (that aren't made fun of) and no complex mathematical models. In this session you'll learn to take the content types, site columns, and navigation options and assemble them into an information architecture that your organization can actually use. Learn how Managed Metadata Services can help you ensure consistency while location-based default metadata can help to drive metadata 'entry'. This session will be information architecture you can do.
Oss and libraries enabling arabic libraries and creating opportunitiesMassoud AlShareef
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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?
An introduction to the background, history, scope, and activities of the NISO Open Discovery Initiative. Part of the "Everyone's a player: Creation of standards in a fast-paced shared world" session.
Presenter: Marshall Breeding
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.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
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My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
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Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
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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.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
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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.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
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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.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
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In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
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Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
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91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
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Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
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Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
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Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
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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
To Graph or Not to Graph Knowledge Graph Architectures and LLMs
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09.19 rda toolkit essentials
1. RDA Toolkit Essentials
Presented by
James Hennelly
ALA Digital Reference
American Library Association
2. Getting Started
• Ask questions via Chat box
• Report technical issues via Chat
• Q&A session at the end of presentation
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.
You can ask questions via the chat box, be sure to chat all for questions. My colleague Melissa Wood will collect the question, and we will answer them at the end of the presentation.You can also select people to privately chat. If you experience any technical problems, you should use that feature to contact Dan Kaplan about such issues.We will address all questions at the end of the webinar.
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.
Blog includes tips, important announcements, interviews, linksDev blog covers what is in work for RDA Toolkit and updates on releases. An important place to voice your ideas about how to improve RDA Toolkit.
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.