Resources for a Resource Description and Access (RDA) and a transitioning cataloging environment
Last updated August 2, 2021
This page started as a quick resource page for myself and anyone who wanted to stay informed of the development of Resource Description and Access (RDA) as it moved toward publication. Since then it has morphed to include a broader array of resources revolving around RDA and the transitioning environment of cataloging, metadata, including the increasing interest in linked data and the like. LC implemented RDA in March 2013 and also announced plans to investigate transitioning MARC21 resulting in the development of BIBFRAME. This page is not intended to be a complete list of resources, and it is subject to change. Corrections and suggestions for additions are welcome.
In 2012 I had the pleasure of editing a special issue of Journal of Library Metadata entitled the "Functional Future of Bibliographic Control : transitioning into new communities of practice and awareness" (volume 12, issue 2-3, September 2012). Those interested can read my Introduction to the issue here. This issue was also published as a book by Routledge, 2014. ISBN 978-0-415-71602-4. (Please note, the book title is slightly different: "Functional Future for Bibliographic Control").
Stakeholders
- RDA Steering Committee
- American Library Association (ALA)
- Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS)
- Cataloging and Metadata Management Section (CaMMS)--was Cataloging and Classification section until June 2011
- Cataloging and Classification : Description and Access committee (CC:DA)-see various tasks forces concerning RDA
- Cataloging and Metadata Management Section (CaMMS)--was Cataloging and Classification section until June 2011
- LITA / ALCTS Metadata Standards Committee
- Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS)
- Australian Committee on Cataloguing (ACOC)
- ACOC page on RDA here
- The British Library
- Canadian Committee on Cataloguing (CCC)
- CILIP: Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
- The Library of Congress
- International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
Resources
General
- 2010 Year of Cataloging Research(main website)
- Beyond 2010 the Year of Cataloging Research (e-forum)
- NEW LINK! Genius of Library Cataloging and Its Possible Future a lecture given by Dr. Fran Miksa at the GSLIS, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, March 3, 2006
RDA
- RDA Toolkit (main website)
- RDA: Resources Description and Access (PRINT edition) is available from ALA Store in the Cataloging and Classification resource category
- Introducing RDA: a guide to the basic by Chris Oliver is also available from the ALA Store
- RDA Toolkit --Teaching and training resources
- ALCTS training events--numerous webinars in the RDA series
- Presentations on RDA (JSC site)
- Resource Description and Access: Background / Overview --Tillett, B.
- RDA Forum (ALA Connect)--excellent source for links
- Cataloging Principles and RDA: Resource Description and Access--Tillett, B.
- OCLC resources on RDA
- FRBR and RDA: Advances in Resource Description for Multiple Format Resources --Chris Oliver (2009); good report, very useful
- Shaping tomorrow's metadata with RDA--a Canadian Library Association (CLA) Preconference held by the Technical Services Interest Group (TSIG) on June 2, 2010; some very useful powerpoint presentations
- RDA examples by University of Chicago Catalogers
- Changes from AACR2 to RDA: a comparison of examples by Adam L. Schiff (webpage), Principal Cataloger, University of Washington Libraries REVISED Aug 2010
- Preparing School Library Media Specialists for RDA (co-presenter with Dr. Barbara Schultz-Jones) American Association of School Librarians, 14th Annual Conference and Exhibition, Charlotte, NC, Nov. 7, 2009
RDA Testing
- LC Documentation for RDA Test: Training Materials
- OCLC policy statement on RDA Cataloging in WorldCat for the U.S. testing period
MARC21
- MARC 21 Format Changes (LC site)
- MARC 21 Proposals (LC site)
- MARC 21 Discussion papers (LC site)
- MARC 21 Format Overview
- Format Change List: in particular, look at updates starting in 2009 - current
- RDA in MARC from LC
- Technical Bulletins from OCLC
IFLA Functional Requirements
- IFLA Library Reference Model NEW
- Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), PDF in English of the 1997 report, as amended and corrected through February 2009
- Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD)--available as a pdf in English, 2008/2009 report, as amended and corrected through July 2013
- Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (FRSAD), June 2010, available as PDF in English
- FRBR Bibliography--available from IFLA
- What is FRBR?--Tillett, B.
- FRBR: Things you should know, but were afraid to ask --Tillett, B., Library of Congress
- MARC and FRBR--Library of Congress
- FRBR Display Tool--Library of Congress
- OCLC research on FRBR--list of projects and publications
Linked Data NEW
- OCLC Linked Data Research--list of projects and publications
- Resource Description Framework
- Semantic Web Standards
Listservs
Blogs
- Planet Cataloging( uber blogroll for all things cataloging)
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- Cataloging Futures (weblog by Christine Schwartz)
- Catalogablog (weblog by David Bigwood)
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- JSC ALA Rep Notes (weblog by John Attig)
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Just for Fun...
- An Alternate Model of Functionality( a SIGCON presentation at 2008 ASIST annual conference)