Preparing for a Resource Description and Access (RDA) and a transitioning cataloging environment

Last updated February 10, 2013

This page started as a quick resource page for myself and anyone who wanted to stay informed of the development of Resource Description and Access (RDA) as it moved toward publication in 2010. Since then it has morphed to include a broader array of resources revolving around RDA and the transitioning environment of cataloging, metadata, including the increasing interest in linked data and the like. LC intends to implement RDA in March 2013 and this year announced plans to transition MARC21 (i.e., most likely they will replace it). This page is not intended to be a complete list of resources, and it is subject to change. Corrections and suggestions for additions are welcome.

Stakeholders

• Joint Steering Committee for Development of Resource Description and Access      
• American Library Association (ALA)

  • Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS)
    • Cataloging and Metadata Management Section (CaMMS)--was Cataloging and Classification section until June 2011 Link updated
      • Cataloging and Classification : Description and Access committee (CC:DA)-see various tasks forces concerning RDA
    • Machine-Readable Bibliographic Information (MARBI) Committee

• Australian Committee on Cataloguing (ACOC)
• ACOC page on RDA here
• The British Library
• Canadian Committee on Cataloguing (CCC)
• CILIP: Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
• Cataloguing and Indexing group
• The Library of Congress
  • Network Development and MARC Standards Office
    • Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative  NEW
    • BIBFRAMENEW
    • LC Linked Data Service NEW
• International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
• Statement of International Cataloguing Principles
• Functional Requirements: The FRBR Family of Models

Resources

General

• 2010 Year of Cataloging Research(main website)
• Beyond 2010 the Year of Cataloging Research (e-forum)  
• Genius of Library Cataloging and Its Possible Future a lecture given by Dr. Fran Miksa at the GSLIS, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, March 3, 2006

RDA

• RDA Toolkit (main website)
• RDA: Resources Description and Access (PRINT edition) is available from ALA Store in the Cataloging and Classification resource category
• Introducing RDA: a guide to the basic by Chris Oliver is also available from the ALA Store
• RDA Toolkit --Teaching and training resources
• ALCTS training events--numerous webinars in the RDA series
• Presentations on RDA (JSC site)
• Resource Description and Access: Background / Overview --Tillett, B.
• RDA Forum (ALA Connect)--excellent source for links
• Cataloging Principles and RDA: Resource Description and Access--Tillett, B.
• OCLC resources on RDA
• FRBR and RDA: Advances in Resource Description for Multiple Format Resources --Chris Oliver (2009); good report, very useful
• Shaping tomorrow's metadata with RDA--a Canadian Library Association (CLA) Preconference held by the Technical Services Interest Group (TSIG) on June 2, 2010; some very useful powerpoint presentations
• RDA examples by University of Chicago Catalogers
• Changes from AACR2 to RDA: a comparison of examples by Adam L. Schiff (webpage), Principal Cataloger, University of Washington Libraries REVISED Aug 2010
• Are you Ready? a short presentation by S.Miksa, 2007
• Preparing School Library Media Specialists for RDA (co-presenter with Dr. Barbara Schultz-Jones) American Association of School Librarians, 14th Annual Conference and Exhibition, Charlotte, NC, Nov. 7, 2009

RDA Testing  

• LC Documentation for RDA Test: Training Materials
• OCLC policy statement on RDA Cataloging in WorldCat for the U.S. testing period

MARC21

• MARC 21 Format Changes (LC site)
  • MARC 21 Proposals (LC site) in particular the following:
    • 2008-05/1; 2008-05/2; 2008-05/3; 2009-01/1; 2009-01/2; 2009-01/3; 2009-06/2; 2009-06/3; 2010-03; 2010-04; 2010-06; 2010-07;
  • MARC 21 Format Overview in particular:
    • Format Change List: Update No. 10, October 2009 and Update No. 11, 2010
    • 2011 Discussion Papers  
• RDA in MARC from LC
• Technical Bulletin 258 OCLC MARC Format Update 2010 including RDA Changes from OCLC

Functional Requirements

• Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR)
• Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD)--no longer available as a pdf in English, but is available as book for purchase
• Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (FRSAD)--June 2010
• FRBR Bibliography--available from IFLA Link updated
• What is FRBR?--Tillett, B.
• FRBR: Things you should know, but were afraid to ask --Tillett, B., Library of Congress
• FRBR Display Tool--Library of Congress
• OCLC research on FRBR--list of projects and publications

Linked Data NEW

• OCLC Linked Data Research--list of projects and publications
• Resource Description Framework
• Semantic Web Standards

Listservs

• AUTOCAT
• RDA-L
• EDUCAT
• NGC4Lib
• RDA Toolkit mailing list

Blogs

• Planet Cataloging( uber blogroll for all things cataloging)
  • The FRBR Blog (weblog by William Denton)
  • Cataloging Futures (weblog by Christine Schwartz)
  • Catalogablog (weblog by David Bigwood)
  • and more....
• JSC ALA Rep Notes (weblog by John Attig)
• and more....

Just for Fun...

• An Alternate Model of Functionality( a SIGCON presentation at 2008 ASIST annual conference)