NISO/DCMI Webinar:Deployment of RDA (Resource

Description and Access) Cataloging and its Expression as Linked Data

April 24, 2013

Speaker: Alan Danskin,

Metadata Standards Manager at The British Library

http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/rda/

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Deployment of RDA cataloguing and its expression as linked data

Alan Danskin

British Library Representative to JSC

NISO Webinar 24/April/2013

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Good afternoon!

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Overview

RDA: a brief reminder!

RDA and Linked Data

Linked data challenges

RDA application profiles

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A brief reminder

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WHAT IS RDA?“RDA provides a set of guidelines and instructions on

formulating data to support resource discovery.“

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RDA: Purpose and scope

RDA provides a comprehensive set of guidelines and instructions covering all types of content and media.

RDA 0.0 Purpose and Scope

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Scope

Consideration has been given to the metadata standards used in other communities (archives, museums, publishers, semantic web, etc.) to attain an effective level of alignment between those standards and RDA.

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RDA: Purpose and scope

Supersedes Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd ed.

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Practical tool for cataloguers

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RDA: Status

RDA was published in 2010 RDA Toolkit Print

RDA development Regular toolkit releases RDA update April 2012 RDA update July 2013 TBC

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RDA Translations

May 14th Toolkit Release (TBC) French translation German translation

Official translations in progress Chinese (print only) Spanish (online and print)

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RDA: Implementations

Bibliographic Data Services (BDS) British Library Cambridge University Library OLIS/Bodleian Library University of Warwick Library of Congress National Library of Medicine University of Chicago

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RDA: Implementations

Library and Archives Canada (2013) National Library of Australia (2013) German Speaking Library Community

(2013-2015) Germany Austria Switzerland

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RDA: Implementations

Koninklijke Bibliotheek (NL) (2013-14)

Philippines (2013)

National Library of Scotland (2014)

National Library of Finland (2015)

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RDA Administration - CoP

ALA BL

CLA

CILIP

LAC

LC

NLA

BritishLibrary

Library & ArchivesCanada

Library of Congress

NationalLibrary ofAustralia

AmericanLibraryAssociation

Chartered Instituteof Library & InformationProfessionals

CanadianLibraryAssociation

Committee of Principals

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Supporting Organizational Structure

Committee of

Principals

FundTrustees/

Co-Publishers

Joint SteeringCommittee

ALACC:DA

ACOC BL CCC CILIP/BL LCDNB

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JSC in Chicago, Nov. 2012

Christine Frodl (DNB)William Leonard (LAC)Gordon Dunsire (CILIP)

live on the InternetBarbara Tillett (JSC Chair)

John Attig (ALA)Judy Kuhagen (JSC Sec)Alan Danskin (BL)Kevin Marsh (ACOC)

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RDA and Linked data

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Linked Data EnvironmentSemantic Web (RDF Triples)

Subject Verb Object

Noun/adjective verb Noun/adjective (literals) George R.R. Martin is the creator of A game of

thrones

or better for machines: URI URI URI

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RDA and Open Data

RDA element set

RDA elements

RDA vocabularies

Open Metadata Registry

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URI

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FRBR’s Entity-Relationship Model

Entities Relationships Attributes (data “elements” in

RDA)

relationship

One Entity Another Entity

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Relationships are fundamental to RDA…

ENTITY = PERSONIdentifier for the Person = n80160390

Preferred Name for the Person: George R.R. MartinVariant Name for the Person: מרטין, ג׳ורג׳

ENTITY = WORKIdentifier for the Work = W98765

Preferred title for the Work: A game of thronesForm of Work: Novel

is author of has author

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Relating Stuff

George R R Martin

A game of thrones

A song of ice and fire

author

translation

Hra o trůny (Czech)

Hana Březáková

translatorA clash of kings

More…

sequelprequel

T.V. Adaptation

Game of thrones

Season 1

Season 2

T.V Adaptation

TV Adaptation

contains

sequel

Henry Jacoby

Games of thrones and philosophy

Subject

editorproducer

Whole part

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George R.R. Martin

A game of thrones [Get this]

A song of ice and fireTranslations

Literature about A game of thrones

Did you mean Game of thrones (Television Series)?

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Linked data challenges

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Is FRBR a constraint on Linked Data?FRBR is either Enabling Too complex

It depends on your perspective

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Unconstrained

Constrained

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Dumbing Up?

Sceptical

Unexpected benefits

Different Name Spaces

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“Publication” of the vocabularies in progress

JSC is finalising definition of terms and merging vocabularies where appropriate

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Vocabulary Challenges

Quantity

Definitions

Precision

Semantic mapping

Competing priorities

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RDA Application Profiles

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Application profile

an application profile is a set of metadata elements, policies, and guidelines defined for a particular application

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Glossary

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Application Profile

Functional Requirements

Domain Model

Description Set Profile and usage guidelines

Syntax Guidelines and Data Formats

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Functional Requirements

Describes what a community wants to accomplish with its application

RDA’s functional requirements are defined by FRBR and FRAD. The requirements are related to resource discovery and based on specific user tasks.

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Domain Model

Characterizes the types of things described by the metadata and their relationships

FRBR / FRAD

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Description set profile and usage guidelinesEnumerates the terms to be used and the rules

for their use

RDA Element Analysis Table

http://www.rda-jsc.org/docs/6rda-element-analysis-table.pdf

RDA instructions

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Syntax Guidelines and Data FormatsMachine syntax that will be used to encode the

data

RDA is agnostic about the syntax to be used to encode RDA data.

MARC Mapping implementation/backwards compatibility

RDF & RDF/S – in progress

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Summary

Functional Requirements FRBR/FRAD

Domain Model FRBR/FRAD

Description Set Profile RDA Element Set

Usage Guidelines RDA Instructions

Syntax Guidelines / Data Format In progress

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Links

Joint Steering Committee for the Development of RDA

http://www.rda-jsc.org/

RDA Toolkit http://www.rdatoolkit.org/

Open Metadata Registry http://metadataregistry.org/

RDA namespace http://rdvocab.info/

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Links

RIMMF RDA in Many Metadata Formats

http://www.marcofquality.com/rimmf/doku.php?id=rimmf

BNF Linked data demonstrator

http://data.bnf.fr/

NISO/DCMI WebinarDeployment of RDA (Resource Description and Access) Cataloging and its Expression as Linked Data

NISO/DCMI Webinar • April 24, 2013

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