This document summarizes a webinar on deploying Resource Description and Access (RDA) cataloging and expressing it as linked data. The webinar speaker, Alan Danskin from the British Library, discussed RDA as a cataloging standard that provides guidelines for describing resources to support discovery. He explained how RDA works with linked data by using entities, relationships, and attributes expressed as URIs. Challenges in applying RDA as linked data include the complexity of the FRBR model and publishing RDA vocabularies as linked open data. Application profiles help apply RDA by defining the metadata elements, policies, and guidelines for a specific domain or community.

1. NISO/DCMI Webinar:
Deployment of RDA (Resource
Description and Access) Cataloging and
its Expression as Linked Data
April 24, 2013
Speaker:
Alan Danskin,
Metadata Standards Manager at The British Library
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/rda/

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Deployment of RDA cataloguing and its
expression as linked data
Alan Danskin
British Library Representative to JSC
NISO Webinar 24/April/2013

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Good
afternoon!

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Overview
 RDA: a brief reminder!
 RDA and Linked Data
 Linked data challenges
 RDA application profiles

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A brief reminder

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WHAT IS RDA?“RDA provides a set of
guidelines and instructions on
formulating data to support
resource discovery.“

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RDA: Purpose and scope
 RDA provides a comprehensive set of
guidelines and instructions covering all types
of content and media.
RDA 0.0 Purpose and Scope

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Scope
 Consideration has been given to the
metadata standards used in other
communities
(archives, museums, publishers, semantic
web, etc.) to attain an effective level of
alignment between those standards and
RDA.

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RDA: Purpose and scope
Supersedes Anglo-American
Cataloguing Rules, 2nd ed.

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Practical tool for cataloguers

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RDA: Status
 RDA was published in 2010
 RDA Toolkit
 Print
 RDA development
 Regular toolkit releases
 RDA update April 2012
 RDA update July 2013 TBC

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RDA Translations
May 14th Toolkit Release (TBC)
 French translation
 German translation
Official translations in progress
 Chinese (print only)
 Spanish (online and print)
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RDA: Implementations
 Bibliographic Data Services (BDS)
 British Library 
 Cambridge University Library
 OLIS/Bodleian Library 
 University of Warwick 
 Library of Congress 
 National Library of Medicine 
 University of Chicago

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RDA: Implementations
 Library and Archives Canada (2013)
 National Library of Australia (2013)
 German Speaking Library Community
(2013-2015)
 Germany
 Austria
 Switzerland

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RDA: Implementations
 Koninklijke Bibliotheek (NL) (2013-14)
 Philippines (2013)
 National Library of Scotland (2014)
 National Library of Finland (2015)

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RDA Administration - CoP
ALA BL
CLA
CILIP
LAC
LC
NLA
British
Library
Library &
Archives
Canada
Library of
Congress
National
Library of
Australia
American
Library
Association
Chartered Institute
of Library & Information
Professionals
Canadian
Library
Association
Committee of Principals

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Supporting Organizational Structure
Committee
of
Principals
Fund
Trustees/
Co-Publishers
Joint Steering
Committee
ALA
CC:DA
ACOC BL CCC CILIP/BL LCDNB

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JSC in Chicago, Nov. 2012
Christine Frodl (DNB)
William Leonard (LAC)
Gordon Dunsire (CILIP)
live on the Internet
Barbara Tillett (JSC Chair)
John Attig (ALA)
Judy Kuhagen (JSC Sec)
Alan Danskin (BL)
Kevin Marsh (ACOC)

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RDA and Linked data

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Linked Data Environment
Semantic Web (RDF Triples)
Subject  Verb  Object
Noun/adjective verb 
Noun/adjective (literals)
George R.R. Martin  is the creator of  A game of
thrones
or better for machines: URI URI  URI

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RDA and Open Data
 RDA element set
 RDA elements
 RDA vocabularies
 Open Metadata Registry

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URI

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FRBR’s Entity-Relationship Model
 Entities
 Relationships
 Attributes (data “elements” in
RDA)
relationship
One Entity Another Entity

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Relationships are fundamental to RDA…
ENTITY = PERSON
Identifier for the Person = n80160390
Preferred Name for the Person: George R.R. Martin
Variant Name for the Person:
ENTITY = WORK
Identifier for the Work = W98765
Preferred title for the Work: A game of thrones
Form of Work: Novel
is author of has author

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Relating Stuff
George R R Martin
A game of thrones
A song of ice and fire
author
translation
Hra o trůny (Czech)
Hana Březáková
translator
A clash of kings
More…
sequelprequel
T.V.
Adap
tation
Game of thrones
Season 1
Season 2
T.V
Adap
tation
TV
Adap
tation
contains
sequel
Henry Jacoby
Games of thrones
and philosophy
Subject
editorproducer
Whole part

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George R.R. Martin
A game of thrones [Get this]
A song of ice and fire
Translations
Literature about A game of thrones
Did you mean Game of thrones
(Television Series)?

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Linked data challenges

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Is FRBR a constraint on Linked Data?
FRBR is either
 Enabling
 Too complex
It depends on your perspective

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Unconstrained
Constrained

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Dumbing Up?
 Sceptical
 Unexpected benefits
 Different Name Spaces

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“Publication” of the
vocabularies in
progress
JSC is finalising
definition of terms
and merging
vocabularies where
appropriate

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Vocabulary Challenges
 Quantity
 Definitions
 Precision
 Semantic mapping
 Competing priorities

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RDA Application Profiles

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Application profile
 an application profile is a set of metadata
elements, policies, and guidelines defined for
a particular application
 Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Glossary

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Application Profile
Functional Requirements
Domain Model
Description Set Profile and usage guidelines
Syntax Guidelines and Data Formats

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Functional Requirements
Describes what a community wants to
accomplish with its application
RDA’s functional requirements are defined by
FRBR and FRAD. The requirements are
related to resource discovery and based on
specific user tasks.

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Domain Model
Characterizes the types of things described by
the metadata and their relationships
FRBR / FRAD

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Description set profile and usage
guidelines
Enumerates the terms to be used and the rules
for their use
RDA Element Analysis Table
http://www.rda-jsc.org/docs/6rda-element-
analysis-table.pdf
RDA instructions

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Syntax Guidelines and Data Formats
Machine syntax that will be used to encode the
data
RDA is agnostic about the syntax to be used to
encode RDA data.
 MARC Mapping
 implementation/backwards compatibility
 RDF & RDF/S – in progress

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Summary
Functional Requirements FRBR/FRAD
Domain Model FRBR/FRAD
Description Set Profile RDA Element Set
Usage Guidelines RDA Instructions
Syntax Guidelines / Data Format In progress

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Links
Joint Steering Committee for the Development of RDA
http://www.rda-jsc.org/
RDA Toolkit http://www.rdatoolkit.org/
Open Metadata Registry http://metadataregistry.org/
RDA namespace http://rdvocab.info/

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Links
RIMMF RDA in Many Metadata Formats
http://www.marcofquality.com/rimmf/doku.php?id=rimmf
BNF Linked data demonstrator
http://data.bnf.fr/

48. NISO/DCMI Webinar
Deployment of RDA (Resource Description and Access)
Cataloging and its Expression as Linked Data
NISO/DCMI Webinar • April 24, 2013
Questions?
All questions will be posted with presenter answers on
the NISO website following the webinar:
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/rda/

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