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Making RDA Easy(er) with MarcEdit
MarcEdit is a free metadata editing suite that supports MARC and other formats. It introduced automated RDA processing in 2013 through its RDA Helper tool. The RDA Helper handles converting 336/337/338 and 344/345/346/347 fields, evaluates 260/264 fields, makes 040 modifications, and processes abbreviations based on regular expressions. It also handles GMD processing and allows customizing RDA workflows through general record automation and task automations. MarcEdit assists with RDA implementation by processing AACR2, hybrid, and early RDA records according to RDA rules.
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- 1. Making RDA Easy(er)with MarcEdit Terry Reese reese.2719@osu.edu
- 2. 2 RDA in whatcontext? • RDA in the context of Linked Data? • RDA in the context of the Semantic Web? • RDA in the context of RDF, vocabularies, and URIs?
- 3. 3 RDA in thecontext of MARC21 • While much of what makes the RDA specification interesting as it relates to vocabularies, linked data, and semantic data – this presentation will focus on the practical impact of RDA implementation for catalogers today – specifically how it relates within MARC21.
- 4. 4 Managing the changes •Dealing with the introduction and deprecation of specific MARC fields • The abundance of legacy data that was previously and currently created in AACR2 • Working within environments where local systems or practice necessitate the creation of hybrid AACR2/RDA records
- 5. 5 Enter MarcEdit • MarcEditis a free to use, metadata editing suite. • Available since 1999, available from: http://marcedit.reeset.net • Supports a wide range of library and non-library metadata formats • Large array of built in editing tools specific to MARC data • Introduced automated RDA processing in 2013.
- 6. 6 Topics • RDA Helper,MarcEdit’s automated tool for processing MARC data (AACR2, hybrid, or early RDA recordsets) to RDA. • General Record Automation to enable the creation of custom RDA processing workflows.
- 7. 7 Common Questions Ihear (even today) • What about the GMD? • We code all our data in RDA, how do we deal with other peoples? • What do we do with bulk data loads? Vendor data? • Do we care about Legacy Data? • My library has been encoding records with RDA fields for over a year and now they are incomplete. I have thousands – what can I do? • WHAT ABOUT THE GMD?
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- 9. 9 What does theRDA Helper Handle Looking specifically at: • 336/337/338 field groups • 344/345/346/347 field groups • 380/381 field groups • Evaluating the 260/264 • 040 Modifications • Qualifying Information Processing • Processing Abbreviation Expansion • And allowing for custom abbreviation expansion via regular expressions • GMD processing
- 10. 10 How can thisWork? – Data Mining Does the data already exist in MARC records? Yes and no – while much of the data can be extrapolated, the generation of many new RDA specific fields requires evaluation of multiple data points. The most important data points? LDR/007/008 – with these three data points, you can generate most RDA specific field data. GMD 856 300 130 240 730 740
- 11. 11 RDA Vocabularies MarcEdit makesuse of the RDA Registry and published RDA Vocabularies as the base values for generating 33x, 34x data elements. • Example: • RDA Content Type: http://rdvocab.info/termList/RDAContentType
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- 13. 13 Editing MARC Records Supportsa number of global editing functions: • Find/Replace functionality • Globally Add/Delete MARC fields • Globally Edit Subfield data Conditionally add/remove field data • Globally Edit Indicator data • Globally Swap field data • Record Deduplication • Record Sorting • Call Number Generator • Automation
- 14. 14 Task Automations Task automationprovides a way for non- programmers to create defined task lists that can then be executed automatically The different between a task and a macro is that MarcEdit tasks essentially function like the user was calling specific functions within MarcEdit. Anything that you can do in the MarcEditor, you can automate as a task.
- 15. 15 Managing Tasks Task management workslike macro management You can • Create new tasks • Clone tasks • Rename tasks • Delete tasks • Edit tasks
- 16. 16 Task Automation AdditionalInformation: Youtube: Introduction to task automation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmqTGfTubU4 Introduction to new task automation functions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnorN0MFFN0
- 17. 17 Thank you Contact Information: TerryReese The Ohio State University Email: reese.2179@osu.edu or reeset@gmail.com Web: http://marcedit.reeset.net
Editor's Notes
- #9 Best advice when talking to groups about RDA; I have to follow this advice myself due to the closed nature of the standard. How can this standard move beyond libraries when we make the vocabularies open, the but the implementation notes and standards documents behind a paywall.