Change is in the Air: What’s New with RDA & FRBR? 2006 OLC Technical Services Retreat April 25, 2006 Glenn Patton

Topics for today Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) Functional Requirements for Authority Records (FRAR) Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records (FRSAR) IFLA Meeting of Experts on an International Cataloguing Code (IME-ICC) Resource Description and Access (RDA)

Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records

What FRBR Is & Isn’t? It isn’t a standard –  So, it’s not something to implement It’s a conceptual model –  It helps us think about current standards and practices It’s a tool  It clarifies how catalogs should function

Four User Tasks Find Identify Select Obtain And, maybe a fifth: Navigate

Used by permission of William Denton

FRBR Working Group activities Working Group on Aggregates Working Group on the Expression Entity Working Group on FRBR/CRM Dialogue Survey of System Vendors

Working Group on Aggregates New working group chaired by Ed O’Neill Looking at issues related to:  collections, selections, anthologies...  augmentations  series  journals  integrating resources  multipart monographs

Working Group on the Expression Entity Proposal to refine the description of Expression in Section of FRBR Problematic statement: “Strictly speaking, any change in intellectual or artistic content constitutes a change in expression.”

Working Group on FRBR/CRM Dialogue Joint IFLA Cataloguing Section/ICM International Committee for Documentation project Harmonizing FRBR bibliographic model with the CRM cultural heritage information model Expressing FRBR entity-relationship model as an object-oriented model

System Vendor Survey 70 questionnaires;12 responses 67% keep up to date with FRBR activities; 41% actively participate

System Vendor Survey 50% said FRBR has had no impact on current products 67% said FRBR has some impact on product development

System Vendor Survey 67% have customers inquiring about or asking for FRBR support 84% said “valuable conceptual tool” or “useful practical tool

FRBR in use OCLC’s Open WorldCat

FRBR in use OCLC’s FirstSearch Pilot

FRBR resources IFLA FBR Review Group FRBR Blog Tillett, Barbara. “What is FRBR?: A Conceptual Model for the Bibliographic Universe.” Available at Maurer, Margaret. “Before You Attend the Workshop: FRBR and the Future,” TechKNOW 10, no. 4 (March 2004). Available at

Functional Requirements for Authority Records

FRAR FRBR – “the need to extend the model … to cover authority data” Working group established in 1998 Worldwide review completed in October 2005 Final editing of functional requirements in process

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FRAR resources Patton, Glenn. “FRAR: Extending FRBR Concepts to Authority Data.” Available at: Patton.pdfhttp:// Patton.pdf The functional requirements document as made available for worldwide review:

Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records

FRSAR A further extension of FRBR into the area of subject access Both subject thesauri and classification Working group chaired by Marcia Zeng (Kent State University), Maja Žumer (University of Ljubljana) and Athena Salaba (Kent State University)

FRSAR terms of reference Build a conceptual model of Group 3 entities within the FRBR framework Provide a clearly defined, structured frame of reference for relating the data that are recorded in subject authority records to the needs of the users of those records Assist in an assessment of the potential for international sharing and use of subject authority data both within the library sector and beyond

IFLA Meeting of Experts on an International Cataloguing Code

“A code for code makers” Meetings of Experts Frankfurt (2003) Buenos Aires (2004) Cairo (2005)  Seoul (2006)  Durban (2007)

Resource Description and Access

RDA Joint Steering Committee meeting this week, Ottawa, Ontario Agenda:  Review of comments on Part I (Resource Description)  Initial Review of Part II (Relationships)

Part I — Resource Description Introduction to part I Chapter 1. General guidelines on resource description Chapter 2. Identification of the resource Chapter 3. Technical description Chapter 4. Content description Chapter 5. Information on terms of availability, etc. Chapter 6. Item-specific information

Part II — Relationships Introduction to part II Chapter 7. General guidelines on reflecting relationships Chapter 8. Access points reflecting relationships to persons, families, and corporate bodies Chapter 9. Citations for related works, etc. Chapter 10. Special instructions for particular types of works

Part III - Access Point Control Introduction to part III Chapter 11. General guidelines on access point control Chapter 12. Names of persons Chapter 13. Names of families Chapter 14. Names of corporate bodies Chapter 15. Names of places Chapter 16. Citations for works, etc. Chapter 17. Other information used in access point control

Appendices, etc. Appendix A. Capitalization Appendix B. Abbreviations Appendix C. Initial articles Appendix D. Presentation of descriptive data Appendix E. Presentation of access point control data Glossary Index

RDA Timeline May 2005-July 2005: Development of prospectus Oct April. 2006: Completion of draft of part I, and constituency review May 2006-Sept. 2006: Completion of draft of part II, and constituency review Oct Apr. 2007: Completion of draft of part III, and constituency review May 2007-Sept. 2007: Completion of General Introduction, Appendices, and Glossary 2008: Publication

Changes in “the Process” Drafts openly available for review and comment Constituent comments also available ALA: alaresp.pdfhttp:// alaresp.pdf CILIP: cilipresp.pdfhttp:// cilipresp.pdf

RDA and ONIX? Joint initiative announced April 10: “… to develop a framework for categorizing resources in all media that will support the needs of both libraries and the publishing industry and will facilitate the transfer and use of resource description data across the two communities.”

RDA information On the JSC website: On the CC:DA website: ALCTS Forum on RDA: Saturday, June 24th, 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. Morial Convention Center, Room 295/296

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