Under the lid of RDA Gordon Dunsire Presented

Under the lid of RDA Gordon Dunsire Presented to the Cataloguing and Indexing Group in Scotland’s post-AGM seminar - RDA: a bigger picture National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, 19 May 2014

Overview v. RDA elements: relationships and attributes v. Extending RDA: place and extent v. RDA linked data v“What does an RDA record look like? “ Is this a record?

What is a record? Is this a record? Where is it?

One and only one Distinct FRBR/FRAD Entities Work Person Expression Agent Family Manifestation One or more Corporate Body Item Primary/high-level relationships

Work RDA Entity relationships Person Expression Family Manifestation Corporate Body Item pov: Description -> Access

Work Place: new RDA entity? Person Expression Family Manifestation Corporate Body Item Place pov: Access -> Item (content)

Is this a record? Manifestation Entity attributes Carry values of specific aspects of the entity carrier type “volume” distributor’s name “Book. Xpress” extent “ 24 pages ; 23 cm” place of publication “Edinburgh” title proper “Metadata manual”

s ths Is thisa arcrd? record? Linked entity record Manifestation Vocabulary encoding scheme carrier type “volume” VES Corporate Body distributor’s name “Book. Xpress” extent “ 24 pages ; 23 cm” place of publication “Edinburgh” title proper “Metadata manual” Place

Main label Manifestation Common entity attributes title proper “Metadata manual” carrier type “volume” distributor’s name “Book. Xpress” “ 24 pages ; 23 cm” extent place of publication “Edinburgh” Work preferred title for the work Person preferred name for the person Family preferred name for the family

Identifiers Work authorized access point Person authorized access point Attributes for Relationships identifier for the work preferred title for the work date of work, … place of origin of the work identifier for the person preferred name for the person date of birth, …

s ths a rcrd? Entity record Manifestation carrier type “volume” VES Corporate Body distributor’s name “Book. Xpress” extent “ 24 pages ; 23 cm” place of publication “Edinburgh” title proper “Metadata manual” Place

Extent v. Need for machine-actionability v. Number of pages to be digitized v. Utility of finer-grained content and carrier categories for search filters v. American Library Association (ALA) Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access (CC: DA) Task Force v. Discussion papers and recommendations submitted to JSC

Extent: the Aspect-Unit-Quantity model 24 pages ; 23 cm Aspect: Unit: Quantity: [length, pagination] pages 24 Aspect: Unit: Quantity: height centimeters 23

Unit as category v Page: A unit of extent consisting of a single side of a leaf. v Leaf: A unit of extent consisting of a single bound or fastened sheet as a subunit of a volume; each leaf consists of two pages, one on each side, either or both of which may be blank. v Plate: A leaf containing illustrative content, with or without explanatory text, that does not form part of either the preliminary or the main sequence of pages or leaves. v Relationship with carrier and content types? v. E. g. Volume

s ths a rcrd? Entity record Manifestation carrier type “volume” VES Corporate Body distributor’s name “Book. Xpress” extent “ 24 pages ; 23 cm” AUQ place of publication “Edinburgh” title proper “Metadata manual” Place

RDA in RDF: element sets for linked data (rdaregistry. info) v. RDA Entity => RDF class v. RDA Attribute/element; Element sub-type; Relationship designator => RDF property or sub-property v. RDA Sub-element => [component of aggregated statement – is this a record? ] v. Element sets published in January 2014 v. Used in RLUK linked data records (15 million+)

Research Libraries UK Linked Open Data @prefix rdaa: <http: //rdaregistry. info/Elements/a/>. @prefix rdac: <http: //rdaregistry. info/Elements/c/>. @prefix rdae: <http: //rdaregistry. info/Elements/e/>. @prefix rdam: <http: //rdaregistry. info/Elements/m/>. @prefix rdaw: <http: //rdaregistry. info/Elements/w/>. @prefix rdau: <http: //rdaregistry. info/Elements/u/>. … <http: //data. theeuropeanlibrary. org/Bibliographic. Resource/3000087336858> a dcterms: Bibliographic. Resource ; rdam: P 30004 "local identifier: http: //data. copac. uk/iid/70391419" ; rdau: P 60049 <http: //rdvocab. info/term. List/RDAContent. Type/1020> ; rdam: P 30003 "single unit"^^<http: //rdvocab. info/term. List/Mode. Issue> ; rdau: P 60520 "Unkown"@en ; rdam: P 30004 "isbn: 0385603614" , "nbn: GBA 4 -2842" ; rdam: P 30156 "Duende a journey in search of flamenco" ; rdau: P 60339 "Jason Webster. ". Is this a record?

I i e o? Entity record? Manifestation carrier type distributor’s name VES: volume Corp. Body: Book. Xpress place of publication extent A U Q title proper “Metadata manual” Place: Edinburgh s ths a rcrd?

Thank you! v. Contact vjscchair@rdatoolkit. org v. RDA Registry for developers (Git. Hub) vhttps: //github. com/RDARegistry/RDAVocabularies v. RLUK datasets vhttp: //www. theeuropeanlibrary. org/tel 4/access/ data/lod