Presenters: Angela Kilsdonk & Lebbeous Fogle-Weekley, Equinox

RDA

• Development started in 2005
• Replacing AACR2
• designed with digital environments & interoperability in mind
• describes digital materials and print materials
• RDA test in 2010 amongst several large libraries
• Library of Congress long-term plan: RDA Implementation Day: Mar 31, 2013

• it's a content standard to replace AACR2
• it's not an encoding standard & doesn't replace MARC
• a new way of describing bibliographic resources -- new conceptual models
• based on FRBR and FRAD
  • FRBR: Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
  • FRAD: Functional Requirements for Authority Data
  • FRSAD: Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data, recently published

FRBR

• a conceptual model for the bibliographic universe
• entity-relationship model
• defines
  • user tasks
  • bibliographic entries

example: Person(Jane Austen) <-created/was created by-> Work(Pride and Prejudice)

• Group 1: the products of intellectual endeavor
  • Work
    • is realized through: Expression (conceptual: eg prose)
      • is embodied in: Manifestation (book, book-of-essays)
        • is exemplified by: Item (the actual physical book sitting on a library shelf)
  • part-to-part and whole-to-part relationships are possible
• Group 2: those entities responsible for physicla production/distribution of same
  • Person, Group, Corporate Body, etc
• Group 3: subjects of intellectual endeavour
  • Concept, Object, Time, Place

• any reprints, facsimilies, translations (!) etc of an original text are the same Work
• parodies, annotated edition, etc, are new Works
• expressions of the work: editions, translations
• paperback, e-book, audio recordings are all different Manifestations of the same Expression of the Work

FRBR User Tasks

• FIND materials
• IDENTIFY an entity
• SELECT an entity that matches the user's needs
• OBTAIN access to the entity

RDA

• amongst other things, breaks out things like multimedia data type ("audio") vs carrier ("compact disc")

Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative

• Lib of Congress initiative to transfer away from MARC21 to another format
• this will be well into the future

What does this all mean for Evergreen?

• WEMI: it's fun to say!!!
• Works Expression Manifestation Item
• what are the development possibilities presented by RDA, and where do we want to go with it?
• how can we make a better catalog & staff client?

• RDA is all about relationships.
• go to a page about Samuel Johnson; you could have not only things he wrote, but works about him, a painting of him, etc etc.
• (what will a FRBR-informed cataloguing interface look like??)
• more relationships to illuminate:
  • critical/scholarly reviews
  • novels grouped with their film/tv/stage adaptations; movies & their remakes