Keeping Libraries Relevant in the Semantic Web: RDA, VIAF, and the new Bibliographic Framework Barbara B. Tillett, Ph.D. Chair, Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA and Former Chief, Policy & Standards Division, Library of Congress 19April2013 Istanbul, Turkey

Technical Developments FRBR-based systems since 1997  Dublin Core Abstract Model (FRBR foundation)  FRBR as conceptual basis for cataloging 

Bib record (flat-file) Z 666.7 .L55 2009

Lee, T. B. Cataloguing has a future 1 sound disc Spoken word. Donated by the author. 1. Metadata

Based on Gordon Dunsire’s slide

Database/format Scenarios

Bib record (flat-file) 100 01 $a Lee, T. B. 245 00 $a Lectures on metadata 300 $a 1 sound disc 500 $a Spoken word. 561 1 $a Donated by the author. 650 0 $a Metadata

Based on Gordon Dunsire’s slide

Database/format Scenarios

Based on Gordon Dunsire’s slide

Database/format Scenarios FRBR registry (IFLA) Future record FRBR Bibrecord record(description) (flat-file) Bib Work information record

RDA element registry

Author: Lee, T. B. Title: Cataloguing has a future Work title: has a future Spoken word Content type:Cataloguing Expression information Audio disc Carrier type:

Name authority record Name: Identifier: … Subject authority record

Subject: Metadata Manifestation information Donated by the author Provenance:

Label: Identifier: … RDA content type registry

Item information

Label: Spoken word RDA carrier type registry

Identifier: …

ONIX

Linked Data Work information Author: Subject: Work Title: Lectures on metadata

Name authority record Name: Lee, T. B. Identifier: …

Expression information Content type: Manifestation information Title: Lectures on metadata Carrier type:

Subject authority record Label: Metadata Identifier: … RDA content type registry

Item information Provenance: Donated by the author RDA carrier type registry 8 Audio disc

Label: Spoken word Identifier: …

Package for displays Future display (

)

Author: Lee, T. B.

Content type: Spoken word

Title: Lectures on metadata Carrier type: Audio disc

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Structures for Descriptions Stoppard

100 10 Shakespeare 245 01 Hamlet 260 Mexico City

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead Movies …

Hamlet English

Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet

French German Spanish México City 2008 Library of Congress Copy 1 Green leather binding

Identifiers 

Elements and controlled vocabularies  Easy

display of terms in languages preferred by the user (linked through shared URIs – Universal Resource Identifiers)

RDA Element Set and Controlled Vocabularies Open Metadata Registry for the RDAvocabulary.info namespace  URIs for each element and controlled term 

 Universal

Resource Identifiers

http://metadataregistry.org/rdabrowse.htm

RDA Carrier Types

URI

‫‪VIAF‬‬ ‫ﺑﺎﻣوق‪ ،‬اورھﺎن‪ 1952 ،‬م‪-‬‬

‫‪Pamuk, Orhan, 1952‬‬‫פאמוק‪ ,‬אורהאן‪-1952 ,‬‬

‫‪6‬‬

VIAF Virtual International Authority File (creative re-use of data)

viaf.org

Pamuk

200 publications in the 2000s

Pamuk

ISNI - 0000 0001 2032 3809

MARC XML

Pamuk

Pamuk

RDF

US RDA Test - 2010 2008 report – Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control  US National Libraries response to test RDA 

US RDA Test – LC Support [email protected]  Library of Congress Policy Statements (LCPS)  http://loc.gov/aba/rda/ for LC’s implementation news, training materials, Webcasts, etc. 

US RDA Test 

26 participating institutions  Many

types of libraries, archives, museums, book dealers, library schools, system vendors, bibliographic consortia, PCC funnel projects  10,570 Bibliographic records  12,800 Authority records  >8,000 surveys on findings 

Results: improvements needed to RDA Toolkit, to readability of instructions, move beyond MARC, etc.

US RDA Test Recommendations Implementation no sooner than January 2012, provided conditions met  Conditions = recommendations to the 

 Joint

Steering Committee (RDA)  American Library Association Publishers  System vendors  Program for Cooperative Cataloging  Library of Congress, National Agricultural Library, National Library of Medicine

LC’s Bibliographic Framework Initiative (BFI) 

US RDA Test results: MARC seen as barrier to achieving benefits of RDA  Recommended

evidence of credible progress towards a replacement for MARC



Mappings or services to enable easy use of both new structures and MARC



Internal steering group at LC  Eric



Miller (Zepheira) - contractor

Initiative to:  Analyze

present and future environment  Identify components of the framework to support users  Plan for evolution from present framework to future

Issues to be Addressed 

Aspects of current metadata encoding standards to retain or evolve  or

replace with something more compatible with Internet (e.g., RDF XML)

Benefits of Semantic Web and linked data technologies for adjusting current models  Maximum re-use of library metadata so users exposed to more quality metadata in innovative ways 

Issues, continued Navigate relationships among entities in library catalogs and the broader Internet  Displays of metadata beyond MARCbased  Identify risks of action and inaction, assess acceptable pace of change  Plan for bringing existing metadata into new bibliographic systems 

The Process Fully collaborative  Consult 

 Partners  Customers  Standards

experts  Systems designers and builders using library metadata 

Host meetings to gather input from all interested parties  Associations,

organizations  Invitational meetings

How to get involved 

http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition/index.html Web site



[email protected] Discussion list

RDA Implementation 

9 institutions continued with RDA after the US RDA Test  RDA

“Copy” available for cataloging in OCLC, SkyRiver, etc.



LC’s RDA Implementation Planning site: http://loc.gov.aba/rda/



Implementation date: March 31, 2013

Internationalization EURIG  Expansion of JSC membership 

JSC = Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA 

Translations of RDA Toolkit

Libraries in danger 

Marginalized by information delivery systems with strong Web presence



Unless we repackage our metadata to reuse in new, creative ways  VIAF

visualizations of library data  Bibliographic relationships = links and pathways for users

Shared data 

RDA’s well-formed metadata



Ability to easily re-use, link in an international environment

New systems 

No more “bibliographic and authority records” – More “shared data”  Inventory

systems to manage local collections  Links to shared services for the description and access points  Services with expanded, faceted search capabilities

Transition RDA plus  Encoding schema and application profile for libraries that moves away from MARC towards more flexible structures and data linking and sharing  New systems 

Collocation Objectives of a catalog: display

Kara Kitap

 



Masumiyet Müzesi

Turkish All the works associated with a French person, etc. All the expressions German of the same work All the English manifestations of the same New York, 2010 expression All items/copies of Library of Congress the same Copy 1 manifestation Green leather binding Text



Pamuk

Relationships Pathways to Related Works Kara Kitap Black Book Documentary

Masumiyet Müzesi

Turkish Text

Movie Gizli Yüz …

Pamuk

French German English New York, 2010

Library of Congress Copy 1 Green leather binding

Internet 

Catalogs are no longer in isolation  Global



access to data

Integrate bibliographic data with wider Internet environment  Share

data beyond institutions

Databases, Repositories VIAF

LCSH

Services

Web front end

Internet “Cloud” March 2012

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