RDA & Serials
RDA Toolkit
• CONSER RDA Cataloging Checklist for Textual
Serials (DRAFT)
• CONSER RDA Core Elements
• Where’s that Tool? CONSER RDA Cataloging –
Interim Period
CONSER Training
1. “Bridge” training (Available fall 2012)
– Transitioning from AACR2 to RDA
• New description
• Maintenance
2. Basic RDA serials cataloging (Available early 2013)
Pre-cataloging decisions
Serial pre-cataloging decisions
• If online resource, separate description or
provider-neutral record or link on record for
print?
• Applying CONSER Standard Record guidelines?
Adding more elements?
• If covered by existing AACR2 record, adding
information or converting record to RDA?
• Deciding if covered by existing record or if
creating a new description is needed
Need a new description?
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Change in mode of issuance
Change in media type
Major change in title proper
Change in responsibility requiring change in
identification of the serial work
• Change in edition statement indicating
significant change in subject or scope
Elements
FRBR & MARC
1XX/240 = work, expression
245-260, 490 = manifestation
300 = expression, manifestation
other 3XX = work, expression, manifestation
5XX = work, expression, manifestation
700-730 = work, expression
760-787 = work, expression, manifestation
8XX = work, expression [& manifestation]
Transcribed Manifestation
Elements
• Title proper and parallel title proper
• Other title information and parallel title other
title information
• Statement of responsibility and parallel
statement of responsibility
• Edition information
• Numbering information
• Place of publisher, distributor, and manufacturer
• Name of publisher, distributor, and manufacturer
• Series information other than ISSN
Title
• Don’t correct errors for monographs = no more
“[sic]” or “[i.e., ____]” – give note to explain
• Do correct errors for serials and integrating
resources to have a stable title
245 $a Zoology studies
246 $i Misspelled title on number 1:
$a Zooology studies
Statement of responsibility
• Transcribe as found (no longer the AACR2 “rule of 3”)
245 ... $a … / $c by Division of Health, Division of
Safety, Division of Labor, and Division of Education.
245 ... $a … / $c by Division of Health [and three
others]
Numbering
• Transcribe terms and months as on the resource
• Can give as formatted or unformatted 362 field
362 0# $a Volume X, number 1OR
362 1# $a Began with January 2010 issue.
ISSN of series and subseries
• Guidelines are generally the same as those for
Numbering of serials
• MARC 490 $x now repeatable
490 $a Title of main series, $x ISSN of main
series. $a Title of subseries, $x ISSN of subseries.
Recorded Manifestation
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Date of publication, distribution, manufacture
Copyright date
Mode of issuance
Frequency
Identifier of the manifestation (usually ISSN)
Key title
Notes about elements
Issues or part used as basis of description
Notes about changes over time
Common carrier characteristics
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Extent
Dimensions
Carrier type
Characteristics for other than volumes as carriers
Basis for Identification
• if not based on first issue or part
– “Identification of the resource based on”
wording in RDA examples
– “Description based on” also can be used
• MARC 588 field
Publication Dates
• Give beginning and ending dates of
publication if have first/last issue, part, or
iteration
260 $c 2001-2009.
• If the first and/or last issue, part, or iteration is
not available, supply an approximate date or
dates of publication
260 $c 1998-[2010?]
Publication Dates
• If date or dates cannot be approximated,
don’t record date(s) of publication – do not
give “[date of publication not identified]”
Extent (300 $a)
• Core element if the resource is complete or if
the total extent is known
• Alternative at 3.4.1.10: omit extent for a
resource that is not yet complete (or if the
total number of units issued is unknown)
Carrier type, etc.
• Developed with ONIX publishing community:
– Content type -- RDA 6.9 -- MARC 336 field
– Media type -- RDA 3.2 -- MARC 337 field *
– Carrier type -- RDA 3.3 -- MARC 338 field
* Not core
Authorized Access Points
• Not abbreviating “Department” (should not
have abbreviated in AACR2 headings)
• Conferences
– Retain frequency in the name
– Omit location, numbers, and dates
Relationships
Relationships
• No core relationships
• Decisions to include relationships are based
on cataloger’s judgment and on cataloging
policy.
Relationships between
Group 1 and Group 2
• Chapters 18 to 22 provide guidelines for
recording relationships between Group 1
entities (i.e., work, expression, manifestation,
and item) and Group 2 entities (i.e., person,
family and corporate body).
• Chapter 17 of RDA is not currently being
applied.
Relationships between
Group 1 and Group 2
• Relationships are expressed by providing an identifier
or an authorized access point for the person, family or
corporate body
• In the MARC environment, designators are added in
subfield $e at the end of authorized access points.
• When a serial publication has a change in responsibility
that does not require a new description, additional
access points for Group 2 entities associated with later
issues (e.g., different issuing bodies for later issue of
journal) can be given.
Creator Element
• Chapter 19
• Is a relationship to the work being identified …
not an attribute of the work
• If more than one creator at same time:
110 $a First-named creator on issue, $e author.
710 $a Second-named creator on same issue, $e
author.
Corporate body as creator
• Categories of works given in RDA 19.2.1.1
(similar to AACR2 21.1B2) -- not roles of
bodies
• Includes government and religious officials for
some categories of works
• Corporate body takes precedence over a firstnamed person or family as creator
Common Group 2 designators for
serial work relationships
• Creator roles
– Author
– Compiler (e.g., of a directory or bibliography)
• Non-creator roles
– Host institution
– Issuing body
– Sponsoring body
Common Group 2 designators for
serial expression relationships
• Chapter 20
• Appendix I
• Contributor is the general term for all roles
relating to an expression
• Possible serial contributor roles:
– Editor of complication (for an editor of a journal)
– Translator
Common Group 2 designators for
serial manifestation relationships
• Chapter 21
• No relationship designators for these roles
because they are elements
• Possible roles for serial manifestations
– Producer (unpublished resources)
– Publisher
– Distributor
– Manufacturer
Common Group 2 designators for
serial item relationships
• For relationships to a single copy of a
manifestation
• Not common for serial resources
– Special collection or rare serial (e.g., note
relationship to former owner or current
custodian)
Relationships within Group 1
• Chapter 24: General guidelines
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Chapter 25: Related Works
Chapter 26: Related Expressions
Chapter 27: Related Manifestations
Chapter 28: Related Items
Chapter 24 – General Guidelines
• MARC environment:
– Designator added in subfield $i at the beginning of
the authorized access point
– Indicated in the MARC linking fields
• Designators for Chapters 25-28 in Appendix J
– Organized by categories of relationships, then
general relationships followed in some cases by
specific relationships
Chapter 25: Related Works
• Common serial work relationship categories:
– Whole part: in a monographic series, contains
another work (in each or some of the issues)
– Accompanying: supplement to, is a supplement
– Sequential: continuation, merger, split,
absorption, etc.
Common relationship designators
for serial works
• Appendix J:
• Whole part: “contains (work)”, “in series
(work)”
• Accompanying: “supplement (work)”,
“supplement to (work)”
• Sequential: “absorbed (work)”, “continues
(work)”, “merger of (work)”, “continued by,”
etc.
Chapter 26: Related Expressions
• Common serial expression relationships:
– Translations
– Language editions
Common relationship designators for
serial expressions
• Appendix J:
– Derivative: “translation of”, “translated as”
– No specific designator for language editions … yet
Chapter 27: Related Manifestations
• Common serial manifestation relationships:
– Different
– Reproductions
– Special issues
– Issued with
Common Relationship Designators
for Serial Manifestations
• Appendix J:
– Equivalent: “also issued as”, “mirror site”,
“reproduction as”, “reprint of (manifestation)”
– Whole-part: “special issue of “, “insert”
– Accompanying: “Issued with”, “Filmed with
manifestation”
Chapter 28: Related Item
• Local relationships
• Common serial item relationships:
– Reproductions of specific items
– Bound with
– Filmed with
Common Relationship Designators
for Serial Items
• Appendix J:
– Equivalent: “reproduction of (item)”, “digital
transfer of (item), “electronic reproduction of”,
“reprint of (item)
– Accompanying: “bound with”, “filmed with (item)”
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