Bibliographic Framework and
Future Scenarios for RDA
Records
Dr. Barbara B. Tillett
Chief, Policy & Standards Division, Library of Congress
& Chair, Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA
For LIANZA (Library and Information Association of New
Zealand Aotearoa)
September 2012
LC’s Bibliographic Framework
Initiative (BFI)
• US RDA Test results: MARC seen as
barrier to achieving benefits of RDA
– Recommended evidence of credible progress
towards a replacement for MARC
• Mappings or services to enable easy use
of both new structures and MARC
• Led by Roberta Shaffer, Associate
Librarian of Congress for Library Services
– Internal steering group at LC
• Initiative to
– Analyze present and future environment
– Identify components of the framework to
support users
– Plan for evolution from present framework to
future
Contractor
• May 22, 2012 LC announced contract with
Zepheira (Eric Miller and company)
• Report in September 2012
– Internal LC discussions
– January 2013 Open Forum at American
Library Association Conference
Issues to be Addressed
• Aspects of current metadata encoding
standards to retain or evolve
– or replace with something more compatible
with Internet
• Benefits of Semantic Web and linked data
technologies for adjusting current models
• Maximum re-use of library metadata so
users exposed to more quality metadata in
innovative ways
Issues, continued
• Navigate relationships among entities in
library catalogs and the broader Internet
• Displays of metadata beyond MARCbased
• Identify risks of action and inaction, assess
acceptable pace of change
• Plan for bringing existing metadata into
new bibliographic systems
The Process
• Fully collaborative
• Consult
– Partners
– Customers
– Standards experts
– Systems designers and builders using library
metadata
• Host meetings to gather input from all
interested parties
– Associations, organizations, “town hall”
– Invitational meetings in 2012 and 2013
How to get involved
• http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition/index.html
Web site
• BIBFRAME@listserv.loc.gov
discussion list
Z
666.7
.L55
2009
Lee, T. B.
Cataloguing has a future
1 sound disc
Spoken word.
Donated by the author.
1. Metadata
Based on Gordon Dunsire s slide
Bib record (flat-file)
’
Database/format Scenarios
100 01 $a Lee, T. B.
245 00 $a Lectures on metadata
300
$a 1 sound disc
500
$a Spoken word.
561 1 $a Donated by the author.
650 0 $a Metadata
Based on Gordon Dunsire s slide
Bib record (flat-file)
’
Database/format Scenarios
Based on Gordon Dunsire s slide
’
Database/format Scenarios
FRBR registry (IFLA)
Future
record
FRBR
Bibrecord
record (description)
(flat-file)
Bib
Work
information
record
RDA element registry
Author: Lee, T. B.
Title: Cataloguing has a future
Work title:
has a future
Content type:Cataloguing
Spoken word
Expression
information
Carrier type:
Audio disc
Name authority record
Name:
Identifier: …
Subject authority record
Subject: Metadata
Manifestation
information
Provenance:
Donated by the author
Label:
Identifier: …
RDA content type registry
Item information
Label: Spoken word
RDA carrier type registry
Identifier: …
ONIX
Linked Data
Work information
Author:
Subject:
Work Title: Lectures on metadata
Name authority record
Name: Lee, T. B.
Identifier: …
Expression information
Content type:
Manifestation information
Title: Lectures on metadata
Carrier type:
Subject authority record
Label: Metadata
Identifier: …
RDA content type registry
Item information
Provenance: Donated by the author
RDA carrier type registry
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Audio disc
Label: Spoken word
Identifier: …
Package for displays
Future display
(
)
Author: Lee, T. B.
Content type: Spoken word
Title: Lectures on metadata
Carrier type: (Audio disc)
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Structures for Descriptions
Stoppard
100 10 Shakespeare
245 01 Hamlet
260
Mexico City
Rosencrantz &
Guildenstern
Are Dead
Movies
…
Hamlet
English
Shakespeare
Romeo and
Juliet
French
German
Spanish
México City
2008
Library of Congress
Copy 1
Green leather binding
Identifiers
• Elements and controlled vocabularies
– Easy display of terms in languages preferred
by the user (linked through shared URIs –
Universal Resource Identifiers)
STORED AS URI
DISPLAY AS TEXT
Rdavocab/RDAcarriertype/1004
Eng
audio disc
RDA Element Set and
Controlled Vocabularies
• Open Metadata Registry for the
RDAvocabulary.info namespace
• URIs for each element and controlled
term
– Universal Resource Identifiers
http://metadataregistry.org/rdabrowse.htm
RDA Carrier Types
URI
VIAF
葛飾, 北斎, 1760-1849
Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849
6
VIAF
Virtual International Authority File
(creative re-use of data)
viaf.org
Cervantes
Cervantes
MARC 21
Cervantes
Cervantes
RDF
Databases,
Repositories
VIAF
LCSH
Services
Web front
end
Internet
“Cloud”
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