Gordon Dunsire Presented to SAC meeting ALA Midwinter Chicago 2 Feb 2015 Overview The JSC agreed at its meeting in Washington DC November 37 2014 to add the highlevel relationship Subject to RDA It will be applicable only to the Work entity Subject relationship designators w ID: 262464
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Slide1
What is an RDA subject?
Gordon Dunsire
Presented to SAC meeting, ALA Midwinter, Chicago, 2
Feb 2015Slide2
Overview
The JSC agreed at its meeting in Washington, D.C., November 3-7, 2014, to add the high-level relationship “Subject” to RDA. It will be applicable only to the Work entity. Subject relationship designators will be accommodated in a new appendix M in RDA Toolkit.
Reasoning behind the decisions and intended impact on the utility of RDA.
Alignment with the FRBR and linked data (Dublin Core Abstract Model) models.
Changes to the RDA element set, relationship designators, and RDA Registry.
Treatment
of embedded
descriptions/citations.Slide3
Consolidated FR model and subjects
FRBR
FRAD
FRSAD
Time
Group 3
Subjects
Concept
Object
Event
Place
Entities not confined to context of subjectSlide4
Work
Thema
Nomen
has as subject
has appellation
FRSAD and RDA as linked data
Thing
i
s same as
W
E
M
I
P
F
C
h
as type
h
as title
h
as nameSlide5
Work
(has) subject
RDA high-level subject relationship
Anything
W
E
M
I
P
F
C
(is) subject of
Primary
SecondarySlide6
d
escription of
(work)
analysis of
(work
)
commentary
on (work)c
ritique of (work)evaluation of (work
)review of (work)
“A work described by a describing work
.”A work that is the subject of a work
.J.2.3 Descriptive Work RelationshipsSlide7
d
escription of (expression)
Etc.
J.3.3
Descriptive
Expression Relationships
Work
has subject
E
i
s subject of
Expression
has subject
E
i
s subject of
Re-defined as cross-entity designatorsSlide8
Appendix M: Relationship designators
Cross-entity: the designators relate different entities (except for Work has subject Work)
[is] description
of
(expression)
[is] analysis
of
(expression)
[is] commentary on (expression)…
Work
Expression
[has] subject [expression]
Form or genre?Slide9
Expression
[is] described in
E
[is] description of
Distinguishing descriptions
W
Catalog
, etc.
Issue, etc.
W
“…”
[has] reference to
a published citation
ALA to prepare proposalSlide10
“Subject” is not an entity
“Subject” is a
relationship
between a Work and something else:
Work “(has)
subject
” something
something “(is)
subject
(of)” WorkReciprocal relationship:
Bottom lineSlide11
Thank you!
jscchair@rdatoolkit.org
6JSC/ALA/31
Subject
Relationship Element in RDA Chapter 23
6JSC/
TechnicalWG/3High-level subject relationship in RDA
RDA Toolkit release, April 2015