Semantic interoperability of library linked data: ISBD and RDA Gordon Dunsire, Françoise Leresche, Mirna Willer Presented at Libraries In the Digital Age (LIDA) 2012 Zadar, Croatia, June 2012

Overview Confusing range of physical and digital information objects General Material Designation Opportunity for review with development of RDA and ISBD consolidated edition RDA/ONIX Framework Hub architecture: ISBD & RDA RDF representations of RDA & ISBD Utility for resource discovery

Media explosion

ISBD “The purpose of the general material designation is to indicate, in general terms and at an early point in the description, the class of materials to which the publication belongs.” GMD General Material Designation List 1 (United Kingdom) braille cartographic material electronic resource graphic manuscript microform motion picture multimedia music object sound recording text videorecording List 2 (Everyone else) activity card art original art reproduction braille cartographic material chart diorama electronic resource filmstrip flash card game kit manuscript … Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2 nd edition Type of content Form of carrier

Evolution AACR2 AACR3 RDA RDA/ONIX Framework Content & Media/Carrier types ISBDs ISBD consolidated Area 0 Content & Media types resource description and access International Standard Bibliographic Description

RDA/ONIX Framework RDA ONIX Online Information Exchange: Publishing industry metadata Workshop, London, 2006 Attributes of content and carrier Primary values for key attributes Methodology for constructing categories on a common & interoperable basis

Example: RDA content type Character: Sensory mode: Image dimensionality: Image movement: “language” “hearing” “not applicable” Base content type: “spoken word”

Mapping to the Framework Definition: “content expressed through the sound of the human voice talking; examples include talking books, radio broadcasts, oral history recordings, and audio recordings of plays, whether recorded in analogue or digital format” Example: ISBD content form “spoken word” Other sources of information include scope notes and semantic domain and range constraints

Example: ISBD content form Character: Sensory mode: Image dimensionality: Image movement: “language” “hearing” “not applicable” Base content type! “izgovorena riječ” = “spoken

Framework as hub Ch:“language” SM:“hearing” ID:“not applicable” IM:“not applicable” RDA ISBD “spoken word” Ch:“language” SM:“touch” ID:“not applicable” IM:“not applicable” “text” “tactile text” + “(tactile)” Sensory specification qualifier

Utility: Query filter Find resources with content that is accessed by hearing Filter resources with content type mapped to Sensory mode=“Hearing” Resource 1Resource 2Resource 3Resource 4 isbd: “spoken word”rda: “spoken word”isbd: “sounds”rda: “performed music”rof: “hearing” isbd:”has content form” rda:”content type” rof:”has sensory mode”

Thank you! ISBD namespace – RDA namespace –

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