The paper explains the background to the development of Resource Description and Access, a metadata content standard intended for international use by a wide range of metadata communities. The paper discusses the implications of RDA for library systems.

TITLE: Cataloging Principles and RDA: Resource Description and Access

SPEAKER: Barbara Tillett
EVENT DATE: 06/10/2008
RUNNING TIME: 49 minutes

DESCRIPTION:

The second in a series on RDA: Resource Description and Access, the next generation cataloging code designed for the digital environment. This presentation deals with the cataloging principles that have influenced the development of RDA; the challenges they present to the international sharing of bibliographic and authority data; and the challenges they present to the developers of RDA.

 

TITLE: Resource Description and Access: Background / Overview

SPEAKER: Barbara Tillett
EVENT DATE: 05/14/2008
RUNNING TIME: 67 minutes

DESCRIPTION:

RDA (Resource Description and Access), the next generation cataloging code designed for the digital environment, is under development. This presentation provides background on its development and a general overview of the conceptual models, international principles, and structure of this new code.

 

"The Co-Publishers of RDA Online (the American Library Association, the Canadian Library Association, and the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) have reached the conclusion that further time is required to complete the development of the new software that will be used for distributing the full draft of RDA for constituency review.

The full draft was originally scheduled for release on August 4, 2008. Instead, it will now be issued in October 2008. The three month time period allocated for comments on the full draft is unchanged, and in this new schedule will extend from October into January 2009. More specific dates for RDA's final release will be forthcoming shortly."

 

Resource Description and Access (RDA): Joint Statement of the Library of Congress, the National Library of Medicine, and the National Agricultural Library on Resource Description and Access (May 1, 2008)

Joint Steering Committee for the Development of RDA site

"RDA/MARC Working Group has been established to collaborate on the development of proposals for changes to the MARC 21 formats to accommodate the encoding of RDA data. With the implementation of RDA anticipated for late 2009, the Working Group will be drafting proposals for review and discussion by the MARC community in June 2008."

A prototype of how RDA might work as an online tool

6/13/07 The co-publishers of RDA have created a short survey on user preferences for a print version of RDA. 

As a result of a meeting at the British Library on April 30 and May 1, it has been announced that RDA and
Dublin Core communities will work together in the following ways:

* develop a formal RDA Element vocabulary (probably following the DC Abstract Model)
* develop an application profile of RDA for Dublin Core using FRBR and FRAD
* use RDF and SKOS to disclose RDA vocabularies

Roy Tennant rehashes the Coyle and Hillmann article from D-Lib

In this provocative article Karen Coyle and Diane Hillmann criticize the RDA development process as being retro, rather than future oriented--particularly the reliance on AACR2 rather than learning from other metadata communities. 

Several working documents discussing how to make RDA less English-centric.

Revised development schedule:
* March-June 2007: Review of revised chapter 3
* July-September 2007: Review of revised chapters 6-7
* December 2007-March 2008: Review of part B
* July-September 2008: Review of complete draft of RDA

RDA is scheduled for release in early 2009.

Includes instructions for subscribing anf links to the list archives (month by month)

The draft of part A, chapters 6-7 of RDA (formerly known as RDA part II) is available for comment until Sept 1 2006

The main RDA page on the JSC website.  Includes background and FAQ and drafts for review.