424 research outputs found
Distinguishing content from carrier: the RDA/ONIX framework for resource categorization
No full textRDA: Resource Description and Access is in development as a new standard for resource description and access designed for the digital world. It is being built on the foundation established for the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR). Although it is being developed for use primarily in libraries, it aims to attain an effective level of alignment with the metadata standards used in related communities such as archives, museums and publishers, and to provide a better fit with emerging database technologies
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Teaching RDA: A First Attempt
No full textThis presentation discusses teaching Resource Description and Access (RDA). The author describes a first attempt at teaching two students RDA as part of a formal library-school class on 'Special Problems in Music Cataloging.
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From AACR2 to RDA: an Update
No full textThis presentation gives an update on the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules 2 (AACR2) and Resource Description and Access (RDA). In this presentation, the author discusses what is changing with RDA and what isn't, the functionality of the catalog, user's experience with functionality, what RDA allows us to do, and cataloger tasks
从RDA想开去 = RDA and Related Issues: What will RDA Bring to International Library Cataloging Community?
No full textAccording to his experience in international library cataloging community, the author discusses the relationships of RDA with International Cataloguing Code, ISBD and Chinese Library Cataloging Rules
RDA Futures
No full textMore than a decade after the book on Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) edited by Halkier, Danson and Damborg (Halkier et al. 1998), and the companion collection edited by Danson, Halkier and Cameron (Danson et al. 2000), the collection of essays included in this volume presents the reader with a mixed picture. On the one hand, we notice an apparent continuity, marked by the substantial diffusion, articulation and consolidation of the phenomenon. RDA presence is pervasive, much beyond what the traditional aim of reducing territorial disparities would imply and require. RDAs take responsibility for transformative agendas within regions adding to (or substituting for) agendas based on disparities between regions (Hall in chapter 10, this volume)
RDA : exposing the archival secrets
No full textPersonal archives can contain many hidden treasures, but how can these be made more visible? A recent Swedish project at Umeå University Library used RDA to create linked data connecting archive and library materials. This can for example help you follow the thoughts of author Sara Lidman from manuscripts in research archives to actual published books in libraries
Find, group, link: the promises of the RDA
No full textIn 2016, the first Spanish libraries will begin using RDA cataloging rules (Resource Description and Access), replacing AACR2. This note article explains that RDA should be viewed as a confluence of three trends: savings, sharing, and developing technology. The objectives of the catalogs (to find a known work, to find works by the same author or subject, and to provide relationships between authors or entities) are explained. A brief historical review of AACR, MARC format, ISBD, FRBR, and Bibframe, is made, finally, to explain the RDA rules
RDA in Perspective: How to Use the Library Literature to Your Advantage
No full textWith the publication of the new cataloging standard, Resource Development and Access (RDA) in June 2010, the follow-up beta testing, and an imminent implementation date announced for the near future, catalogers are immersed in RDA preparation. Consequently, the library literature on RDA is extensive. The purpose of the author of this article is to provide catalogers with a selection of articles that provide job related practical advice as well as a comprehensive synopsis of the development of RDA and its related metadata schema. A relevant timeline is appended
When is an Author Not an Author? Non-human and Fictional Creators under LRM, RDA, and Other Cataloging Standards
No full textPresentation given at SHARP 2023 virtual conference.Generative processes have captured the public attention in recent years, from the fever dream images of early neural nets to the more recent proliferation of chatbots and language models. In the world of cataloging, a 2021 post on the PCCLIST cataloging listserv about a book "co-authored" by a transformer language model led to an almost week-long discussion over whether the AI was truly an author or just a tool. But generative texts are not new, and catalogers are no strangers to determining who counts as an author: the question of whether non-humans, including animals and fictional characters, can author a work of literature has been a topic of intense deliberation as the cataloging world moves toward the implementation of the Official RDA Toolkit, a cataloging standard based on the Library Reference Model (LRM). The LRM holds that fictional characters, and non-human entities more broadly, cannot be Persons or Agents (and for good measure, that fictional places cannot be Places); however, catalogers are still faced with books written by mouse detectives, starship captains, ghosts, Muppets, and presidential pets. How does a cataloger balance faithfully describing an item as it represents itself with following the rules? Who counts as an author?
This presentation will examine the ways that non-human creators are credited in catalog records, looking at the connections between fictional and animal authorship, automatic writing, computer-generated texts, and more. What is a tool, what is a process, and what is an author - at least, according to modern cataloging standards
Use of data from bibliographic records in COBIB according to the RDA core elements
No full textMagistrsko delo obravnava uporabo podatkov iz bibliografskih zapisov v COBIB-u glede na glavne elemente standarda Resource description and access (RDA). V teoretičnem delu je predstavljen RDA, njegov razvoj, struktura, cilji in načela ter glavne spremembe, ki jih prinaša. Na kratko je opisana tudi podatkovna zbirka COBIB. V namen magistrskega dela je ugotoviti, po katerih bibliografskih podatkih uporabniki in knjižničarji v splošnih ni visokošolskih knjižnicah najpogosteje iščejo, ali se le-ti ujemajo z glavnimi elementi RDA ter ali obstaja razlika med iskanjem knjižničarjev in uporabnikov. Raziskavo smo izvedli s pomočjo anketnega vprašalnika in opazovanja z glasnim razmišljanjem. Ugotovljeno je bilo, da uporabniki in knjižničarji najpogosteje iščejo po glavnih elementih RDA (naslov in avtor), poleg tega tudi po drugih podatkih kot npr. predmetne oznake, itd. Knjižničarji za iskanje pogosteje uporabljajo glavne elemente RDA kot uporabniki.The master thesis represents the usage from bibliographic records in COBIB, based on Resource description and access (RDA) core elements. In theoretical part RDA is shown, as well as their evolution, structure, aims, principles and the main changes that they bring. The COBIB database is briefly described in thesis. We were interested to know which bibliographic data were most commonly searched by users and librarians in public or academic libraries, if bibliographic data matches with RDA core elements, as well as if there is a difference between librarians and users searching results. We presented a research, which we carried aout with questionnaire and observing thinking aloud. The research showed that users and librarians most commonly search with RDA core elements (title and author), but few elements, that RDA doesn’t indicate them as core elements (for example subject headings …), should be added. Research shows that the RDA core elements are more commonly used by librarians than users
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