RDA implementation is scheduled for March 31, 2013. Testers of RDA recommended improvements like rewriting instructions in plain English and ensuring community involvement. Differences from AACR2 include lack of abbreviations, more transcription of what is seen, and new fields in MARC like 336, 337, 338 for content/media/carrier types. Linked data and semantic web approaches may make relationships between works more explicit over time. Preparing for RDA involves decisions about cataloging workflows and training.

1. RDA: Are We There Yet?
Emily Dust Nimsakont • Nebraska Library Commission
NCompass Live • September 12, 2012
#NCompLive @enimsakont
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2. The Story So Far…
2005 2010-2011
• Work • RDA
started on • Focus published • RDA tested
AACR3 changed to by national
RDA libraries
2003 2010

3. Recommendations of Testers
• Rewrite the RDA instructions in clear, unambiguous, plain English.
• Define process for updating RDA in the online environment.
• Improve functionality of the RDA Toolkit.
• Develop full RDA record examples in MARC and other encoding
schemas.
• Announce completion of the Registered RDA Element Sets and
Vocabularies.
• Demonstrate credible progress towards a replacement for MARC.
• Ensure and facilitate community involvement.
• Lead and coordinate RDA training.
• Solicit demonstrations of prototype input and discovery systems
that use the RDA element set (including relationships).

4. Implementation Date
March 31, 2013

5. What will be different right
away?

6. RDA Structure
Recording Attributes
Section 1 – Recording Attributes of Manifestation
and Item
Section 2 – Recording Attributes of Work and
Expression
Section 3 – Recording Attributes of
Person, Family, and Corporate Body
Section 4 – Recording Attributes of
Concept, Object, Event, and Place

7. RDA Structure
Recording Attributes
• Recording Relationships
– Section 5 – Recording Primary Relationships Between a
Work, Expression, Manifestation, and Item
– Section 6 – Recording Relationships to Persons, Families,
and Corporate Bodies Associated with a Resource
– Section 7 – Recording Subject Relationships
– Section 8 – Recording Relationships Between Works,
Expressions, Manifestations and Items
– Section 9 – Recording Relationships Between Persons,
Families, and Corporate Bodies
– Section 10 – Recording Relationships Between Concepts,
Objects, Events, and Places

8. Lack of Abbreviations
300 _ _ $a 253 pages : $b illustrations ; $c
28 cm.
NOT
300 _ _ $a 253 p. : $b ill. ; $c 28 cm.

9. Lack of Latin Abbreviations
264 _1 $a [Place of publication not
identified] : $b[publisher not identified], $c
1967.
NOT
260 _ _ $a [S.l. : $b s.n.], $c 1967.

10. Lack of Latin Abbreviations
245 10 $a Micromagentic study of
magnetoeleastic materials
246 1_ $iTitle should read: $a
Micromagnetic study of magnetoeleastic
materials
NOT
245 10 $a Micromagentic [sic] study of
magnetoeleastic materials

11. No Rule of Three in Statement of
Responsibility
… / $c by Nancy Drew, George Fayne, Bess
Marvin, and Ned Nickerson.
OR
… / $c by Nancy Drew *and three others+.
NOT
… / $c by Nancy Drew … *et al.+.

12. More Transcription - “Take What You
See”
250 _ _ $aThird edition
NOT
250 _ _ $a 3rd ed.
(if that is how it appears on the item)

13. More Transcription - “Take What You
See”
/ $c forward by Dr. John Smith.
NOT
/ $ c forward by John Smith.
(if that is how it appears on the item)

14. More Transcription - “Take What You
See”
264 _1 $a Chicago, IL
NOT
260 _ _ $a Chicago, Ill.
(if that is how it appears on the item)

15. Content Type, Media Type and Carrier
Type
336 _ _ $a two-dimensional moving image $2 rdacontent
337 _ _ $a video $2 rdamedia
338 _ _ $a videodisc $2 rda carrier
NOT
245 00 $aAvatar $h [videorecording]

16. Some Changes to Headings
Smith, John, approximately 1837-1896
NOT
Smith, John, ca. 1837-1896

17. Some Changes to Headings
Bible. Corinthians.
NOT
Bible. N.T. Corinthians.

18. Related Works
700 1_ $i Sequel to: $a Mitchell, Margaret, $d
1900-1949. $t Gone with the wind.
NOT
500 _ _ $a Sequel to Margaret Mitchell’s Gone
with the wind.

19. Relationship Designators
100 1_ $a Smith, John, $e author.
700 1_ $a Eastwood, Clint, $d 1930- $e film
producer, $e film director, $e actor.

20. New MARC Fields
• 336, 337, 338
• Content type, media type, carrier type
336 _ _ $a text $2 rdacontent
337 _ _ $a unmediated $2 rdamedia
338 _ _ $a volume $2 rdacarrier
336 _ _ $a two-dimensional moving image $2 rdacontent
337 _ _ $a computer $2 rdamedia
337 _ _ $a video $2 rdamedia
338 _ _ $a online resource $2 rdacarrier

21. New MARC Fields
• 264
• Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufactur
e and Copyright Statements
• First indicator:
– Sequence of statements
# - Not applicable/No information provided/Earliest
2 - Intervening
3 - Current/latest

22. New MARC Fields
• 264
• Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufactur
e and Copyright Statements
• Second indicator:
– Function of entity
0 - Production
1 - Publication
2 - Distribution
3 - Manufacture
4 - Copyright notice date

23. New MARC Fields
• 040 $e = rda

24. Differences in Authority Records
• 046 - Special Coded Dates
• 368 – Other Corporate Body Attributes
• 370 - Associated Place
• 371 - Address
• 372 - Field of Activity
• 373 - Associated Group
• 374 - Occupation
• 375 - Gender
• 376 - Family Information
• 378 - Fuller Form of Personal Name

25. What could be different later?
(which is to say, no, we’re not there
yet…)

26. OLAC Moving Image Discovery
Interface
http://blazing-sunset-24.heroku.com/

27. Scherzo, Indiana University
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/scherzo/

28. AustLit
http://www.austlit.edu.au/subscribe/samples.xml

29. New Search Options

30. Open Library as an Example
http://www.openlibrary.org

31. Richer Authority Records
Women authors
Jane Austen From England
Wrote in 1800s

32. Semantic Web/Linked Data

33. Wikipedia says…
“Linked Data describes a method of publishing
structured data, so that it can be interlinked and
become more useful. It builds upon standard
web technologies, such as HTTP and URIs - but
rather than using them to serve web pages for
human readers, it extends them to share
information in a way that can be read
automatically by computers.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data

34. resource links to
resource
links to
resource links to
links to resource
resource

35. data links to
data data
data
links to
data
data links to
data
data
data
links to
data
data
data

36. HTML
<h1>This is a heading.</h1>
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>

37. RDF/XML
<rdf:Description
rdf:about="http://www.recshop.fake/cd/Empi
re Burlesque">
<cd:artist>Bob Dylan</cd:artist>
<cd:country>USA</cd:country>
<cd:company>Columbia</cd:company>
<cd:price>10.90</cd:price>
<cd:year>1985</cd:year>
</rdf:Description>
http://www.w3schools.com/rdf/rdf_example.asp

38. Relationships are key
Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brenda-starr/3509344100/

39. We are used to connecting pieces of information
based on their context.
Title: A Christmas Carol
Author: Charles Dickens

40. Linked Data makes the relationships
explicit.
predicate
subject object
has
A Christmas author
Charles
Carol Dickens

41. <rdf:Description
rdf:about="http://www.recshop.fake/cd/Empi
re Burlesque">
<cd:artist>Bob Dylan</cd:artist>
<cd:country>USA</cd:country>
<cd:company>Columbia</cd:company>
<cd:price>10.90</cd:price>
<cd:year>1985</cd:year>
</rdf:Description>
http://www.w3schools.com/rdf/rdf_example.asp

42. Civil War Data 150
http://www.civilwardata150.net

43. Tips for Implementation

44. Decide When You Will Implement
• Be prepared to deal with RDA records in copy
cataloging

45. Talk to Your ILS Vendor
• How to display and index new fields

46. Vendor Interviews on the RDA Toolkit
Website
http://www.rdatoolkit.org/blog/category/29

47. Think about Authority Control
• If you outsource this, talk to your vendor
• If not, make decisions about what you will do

48. Plan for Training
• Who?
• How?
• When?

49. Resources
ALCTS RDA Webinars:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1AAFB573
158DC4A1&feature=plcp
Changes from AACR2 to RDA:
http://faculty.washington.edu/aschiff/
Library of Congress RDA site:
http://www.loc.gov/aba/rda/
NCSU RDA Test Materials:
https://staff.lib.ncsu.edu/confluence/display/MNC/
RDA

50. Thank you!
Emily Dust Nimsakont
Cataloging Librarian
Nebraska Library Commission
emily.dust.nimsakont@nebraska.gov
800-307-2665
@enimsakont