RDA

=RDA & FRBR 2011= Latest update: 4 August 2011 RDA toolkit blog on the recommended adoption A blog post on the RDA decision The PCC on RDA How to catalogue in a post-RDA test, pre-RDA implementation phase! Wondering if there is an archive anywhere for this webinar

Latest update: 1 August 2011 The RDA vocabularies RDA in MARC MARC linking now available in the RDA Toolkit RDA toolkit interviews with vendors A very interesting take on RDA! The autocat announcement about the future of RDA The executive summary of the RDA decision More links to comments on the RDA decision

Latest update: 31 July 2011 Links to some of the presentations from the May meeting of the ALA TechSource on metadata and RDA And from the same conference, on the semantic web A thought-provoking article on why metatdata is so important - it's all about easy retrieval

Latest update: 15 June 2011

A presentation on adopting RDA Some notes from the May PCC meeting

H O T P - RDA news! Library of Congress have announced their position on adopting the RDA standard; they have recommended that the three US national agencies (LC, NLM, & NAL) adopt RDA from not earlier than January 2013. Preparatory work will begin from 1 July 2011. BL will announce their decision shortly. It is expected that the full report will be available on the LC website before the ALA annual conference, 23-28 June 2011.

These are a selection of articles associated with that decision: The LC executive summary The executive statement A couple of blogs about the news A blog about the RDA standard

Latest update: 8 June 2011 Keeping up with RDA Five things learned from the CILIP RDA Executive Briefing Another view of RDA What is RDA for? Cataloguers' making best use of RDA

Latest update: 25 May 2011 5 things you may have learned from the CILIP RDA Executive Briefing! Improved RDA Toolkit

Latest update: 11 May 2011 From AACR to RDA; presentation by Adam Schiff An example using FRBR Using LCSH in RDF Paper on the eXtensible catalogue and RDA

Latest update: 16 March 2011 A slide presentation on using RDA to catalogue serials Cheat sheet on how to catalogue a book using RDA Summary of the ALCTS e-forum on RDA Short blog on the end of the US RDA trial

Latest update: 26 January 2011 Summary of the RDA testing

Latest update: 19 January 2011 Register for an RDA webinar More on the RDA test from the ALA midwinter conference

Latest update: 12 January 2011 News of the LC RDA test records Notification that the RDA test period is complete Some results from the RDA testing The actual RDA records that were created for the test RDA and your OPAC Structure of RDA records Download the test records Informal RDA testing!

=RDA 2010=

Latest update: 20 December 2010 The latest on the LC testing of RDA RDA - useful or not? Test your knowledge of RDA!

Latest update: 10 December 2010 LC training materials Webcasts on RDA

Latest update: 8 December 2010 A view from New Zealand on the state of play with the LC testing of RDA A New Zealand library's view on the use of the new RDA name authorities And more ...

Latest update: 7 December 2010 Lots of good RDA stuff today! RDA in Europe The progress of RDA RDA future development More on RDA the European view.

Latest update: 29 November 2010 [|RDA] - any clearer?

Latest update: 20 August 2010 A great [|slide presentation] from Ann Chapman of UKOLN and one on the whys and wherefors of [|RDA]. Some RDA [|scenarios] An interesting article on [|RDA]

Latest update: 10 August 2010 A good description of [|RDA] in an American library setting.

Latest update: 16 June 2010 Is there a [|place] for RDA and MARC?

A [|slide show] on RDA

A link to a link on [|training] for RDA!

[|Report] on the CILIP executive briefing on RDA.

Latest update: 15 June 2010 News from [|Talis] about the uptake of and way forward for RDA.

Latest update: 28 May 2010

*RDA testing
The LC site for tesing [|RDA] and depositing policies etc.

*Toolkit
Information about the RDA [|toolkit]

Latest update: 10 May 2010

*CILIP Briefing
Summary of the CILIP RDA Executive Briefing

*Comparison
A slide comparing AACR & RDA

*Overview
Background and overview of

*Canadian view
[|RDA] from a Canadian perspective

*Presentation
Short on FRBR, FRAD and RDA

Latest updates: 26 April 2010

*RDA on the way
A slide presentation on [|RDA]

Latest updates: 8 February 2010

*RDA in action
[|Examples] of RDA in action.

*Notes on RDA
Some interesting [|notes] on RDA.

*Linked data
What is [|linked data] ?

*RDF
Some [|information] on the Resource Description Framework

*CILIP briefing
CILIP are doing an [|executive briefing]on RDA for strategic managers

*RDA homepage
Here's the [|homepage] for RDA

*Toolkit price
Here's an indication of the [|cost] of the RDA toolkit, and a [|comment] on this.

*Webinar
There's a [|webinar] on RDA being held today and tomorrow.

=Chartered Institute of Information Professionals (CILIP) and British Library (BL) joint Committee on Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR)=

Latest updates: 12 October 2009

*Keep up-to-date with RDA
An [|email list] for keeping up-to-date with develpments in RDA

*RDA full draft
This document is from November 2008, but [|RDA] has a new location which I may not have mentioned before.

*More help on RDA
A list of new [|MARC tags] and a description of how they will be used in RDA.

*New RDA carrier terms to replace GMDs
A brief list of the new [|terms for carriers] that will be used in RDA to replace the curent GMDs in MARC records. A link to the full document is also on this site.

*RDA background documents
Some of the RDA [|background documents] have been updated. These include element analysis and FRBR/FRAD mappings.

*Comparison of AACR2 and RDA
A comparison of AACR2 and RDA [|vocabularies] is now available.

*RDA JSC
The webpages of the RDA [|Joint Steering Committee] have moved!

*RDA presentation
A presentation on [|RDA]

*What is FRBR
A definitive [|guide] from the Chair of the IFLA Cataloguing Section

*FRBR webcast
A [|webcast] from the Chair of the IFLA Cataloguing Section entitled "FRBR: things you should know ..."

*FRBR Blog
The FRBR [|blog]

*FRBR in action
See FRBR [|registries] in aciton

*FRBR help needed
A call for [|examples] ...

*FRBR
Getting to grips with [|what it's all about] ...

*RDA description
A brief description of what [|RDA] is.

*Testing RDA
Three national (American) libraries are [|testing RDA].

*FRBR
A broad view of [|FRBR]

*Mailing list
RDA jisc [|mailing list] archive.

*RDA: a personal view
A blogger's view of [|RDA].

*RDA Presentation
[|Slide presentation] by Ann Chapman of UKOLN on RDA for the 21st century.

*RDA Joint Steering Committee Meeting
The latest meeting of the JSC will be March 12-20 2009, at which they will be preparing [|RDA] for its first release, as well as conisdering the responses they've received on the full draft and instructions on musical works and expressions. There are links on the side bar of this page to background documents, and on the main body of the page a link to each setion of the full draft (in pdf format).

*Old RDA info
I've just located some [|older information] on RDA in relation to Dublin Core Metadata standards: might be useful for a bit of background knowledge. There is an [|older wiki] and a [|new one] associated with this, both of which have some interesting stuff in them.

*Outcomes of latest RDA meeting
The outcomes of the [|latest meeting]of the JSC, 13-22 April 2008, is now available.

*New book on FRBR
A new book discussing the proposed [|FRBR] was published on 30 November 2007.

Found a [|new website] to help keep up-to-date with the developments in RDA.

*Joint Steering Committe Meeting
The next [|meeting] of the JSC will be on April 13-22, 2008. The majority of the meeting will be taken up with discussing responses to the following drafts:

Sections 2-4 & 9 Revised chapter 3 Revised chapters 6-7

After revisions arising from the meeting have been made, the complete draft of RDA will be made available in July 2008.

*Article on FRBR
An article on [|FRBR] from 2006, but still well worth a read.

*Not everyone agrees on the way forward
An impassioned [|article] from Michael Gorman, the first editor of AACR2, 2nd ed. 1978 & 1988.

An interesting [|presentation] delivered at OCLC/MOUG conference, September 2008.

=New drafts available=

*Full draft available
The full draft of the new RDA is now available (November 2008). Introduction to the standard is on this web page:

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/jsc/rdafulldraft.html

and the full draft in pdf format is on this page:

http://www.rdaonline.org/constituencyreview/

*Draft available for comment
The Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA (JSC) is pleased to announce that a draft of RDA Sections 2-4 and 9 has been made available for comment. Please see the following Web page for the draft and details on making comments:

[|http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/rdadraftsec2349.html]

*Oct 2007 Revised prospectus
Following the October 2007 JSC meeting, the Prospectus for RDA has been fully revised to reflect the new organization of RDA:

[|http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/rdaprospectus.html]

*The framework
Revisions have also been made to the documents that define the framework for the development of RDA.

- The RDA Strategic Plan, which establishes long-term goals for RDA and the strategies for achieving those goals in the period 2005-2009:

[|http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/stratplan.html]

- The RDA Objectives and Principles document, that sets out the objectives and principles that govern the overall design of RDA as well as objectives and principles relating to the functionality of the data produced through the application of RDA:

[|http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/working2.html#rda-objectives]

- RDA Scope and Structure that defines the scope and structure of RDA in relation to its underlying conceptual models (FRBR and FRAD) and to two related metadata models (the DCMI Abstract Model and The Metadata Framework). The RDA element analysis and RDA to FRBR mapping have also been revised. In addition, there is now an RDA to FRAD mapping:

[|http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/rda.html#scope]

*AACR to be replaced by RDA
That standard classic, AACR, is in the process of being revamped, to take account of changes in the world of information. Julie and Owen went to an updating session about 3 years ago, but more up-to-date information is available at the following web page: http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/rda.html Release date is scheduled for 2009, and you can register for regular updates on progress.