Teaching RDA Trainthetrainer course for RDA Resource Description

Teaching RDA Train-the-trainer course for RDA: Resource Description and Access Presented by the National Library of Australia September – November 2012 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3. 0 Australia License http: //creativecommons. org/licenses/by/3. 0/au/

Introduction Purpose of course • To train participants to: – Use the RDA Toolkit – Understand principles of RDA – Provide tools for teaching RDA

Introduction • Supplied course material – RDA Training workbook – Electronic copies of Training Workshop material • Training notes • Power. Point presentations • Additional activities

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Day One • • • Overview and context of RDA FRBR refresher RDA Toolkit Key differences from AACR 2: Structure Transcription changes from AACR 2

Module 1: Overview and context of RDA

Learning outcomes • Explore the context and background to RDA • Explore the challenges we will face with implementation and training in RDA

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Semantic Web and RDA Web 1. 0 Web 2. 0 Semantic Web

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Semantic Web and Linked Data • Internet = computers talking to each other • Semantic Web = computers understanding what they are talking to each other about • http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=OGg 8 A 2 zf WKg

Semantic Web and Linked Data • Four principles: – Use URIs as names for things – Use HTTP URIs so that people can look up those names – When someone looks up a URI it provides useful information – Include links to other URIs so that they can discover more things

Semantic Web and Linked Data • Resource Description Framework http: //www. w 3. org/TR/2004/REC-rdfprimer-20040210/#statements

Semantic Web and Linked Data Source: Network visualisation, Ruth Park, Aust. Lit (www. austlit. edu. au), 2002[Retrieved 19/10/2012]

Semantic Web and Linked Data “Now!. . . That should clear up a few things around here!”