Gordon Dunsire Chair RDA Steering Committee Presented at Selmathon 2 10 May 2016 Stockholm Sweden Overview RDA strategy and governance Translations and multilingual data Local and global RDA ID: 611887
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RSC Strategy and RDA Internationalization
Gordon Dunsire, Chair, RDA Steering Committee
Presented at
Selmathon
2,
10 May 2016, Stockholm, SwedenSlide2
Overview
RDA strategy and governance
Translations and multilingual data
Local and global RDASlide3
RDA strategy
3 targets:
International
communities
Cultural heritage communities
Linked data communities
RDA is a package of data elements, guidelines, and instructions for creating library and cultural heritage resource metadata that are well-formed according to
international
models for user-focussed linked data applications.Slide4
RDA Toolkit
provides the user-focussed elements, guidelines, and instructions.
RDA Registry
provides the infrastructure for well-formed, linked, RDA data applications.
RDA data
Open Metadata Registry
provides the linked data representation of RDA Reference.Slide5
RDA data infrastructure
Open Metadata Registry (RDF)
RDA Reference:
Elements, attributes, relationships, values
RDA Registry
RDA ToolkitSlide6
Progress on RDA governance
Joint Steering Committee
For Development of RDA
(JSC)
Committee of Principals
For RDA
(
CoP
)
RDA Board
RDA
Steering Committee
(RSC)
November 6, 2015: Change of name
http://www.rda-rsc.org/Slide7Slide8
RDA Steering Committee
Chair
Secretary
Examples Editor
ALA Publishing
Chair of RDA Board
Technical Team Liaison
Translations Team Liaison
Wider Community Engagement
Africa
Oceania
Europe
Asia
North America
Latin America
& the CaribbeanSlide9
RDA Steering Committee - Europe
Europe
CILIP
British Library
Deutsche
Nationalbibliothek
UK
JSC 2015
Edinburgh
RSC 2016
FrankfurtSlide10
RDA Working Groups
Capitalization Instructions
Fictitious Entities
Music
Technical
Translations
Relationship Designators
RDA/ONIX Framework
Places
Aggregates
Archives
←Task and Finish
Working Groups
Standing
Working Groups→
Rare materialsSlide11Slide12
Feedback from users
Hackathons: Jane-
athons
***
Selmathons
***
Translation teams
RSC
Clarity
Consistency
Simplicity
RDASlide13
FRBR Library Reference Model
International standards (IFLA, ISSN, …)
Contexts (next 2-3 years)
Governance transition
Toolkit review and re-organizationSlide14
FRBR-LRM and RDA
Res
Nomen
has appellation
Place
Timespan
Collective
agent
F
C
Agent
W
E
M
I
P
is created by
is associated with
is type of
Any Thing:
Covers all other types of thing
is modified by
RDA refines LRM relationships as element sub-types (RDF sub-properties)Slide15
M
Place
Timespan
C
has place of publication
has publisher’s name
has date of publication
Nomen
Nomen
Nomen
Publication statement
has manifestation
statement
Transcribed
Recorded
Attributes => RelationshipsSlide16
4-fold path
The “4-fold path” supports RDA data in catalogue cards, flat file schema, RDBMS, and linked data
Describing a related entity:
Unstructured description
Structured description
Identifier
URI
General guidance and instructions:
Simple
Less duplication
Easier to translate
RDA database implementationSlide17
Local refinement of elements and values
Some specific activities
Translations
Local policies and practices
Multi-lingual RDA dataSlide18
Translations
Translations in
RDA Registry:
German
French
SpanishChinese
RDA
Translations Policy
In process (RDA Reference):
Arabic
Dutch
Swedish
Chinese
In process (RDA Toolkit):
Finnish
ItalianSlide19
Semantic
WebSlide20
Multilingual data
German translation
Swedish work
English cataloguerSlide21
French cataloguer
Polylingual dataSlide22
Local
refinement
“audio belt”: refinement to Carrier type
via RDA/ONIX Framework Slide23
Maps for machinesSlide24
Local policies
National Library of Australia
Policy Statement
British Library
Policy Statement
Germany, Austria,
SwitzerlandSlide25
Local vocabularies
Vocabulary removed
from “global” RDA
becomes a “local” vocabularySlide26
RDA Toolkit
Impact of FRBR-Library Reference Model
E.g. new entities, relationships
Impact of more translations and policy statements
Navigation, buttons, split screens
Re-organization: next 2-3 yearsSlide27
Impact of international, cultural heritage, linked data communities
e.g. Books of the Bible
RDA Toolkit
Design and function review is due
“Book” design, hyperlinks,
mouse-overs, pay-wall
Re-organization: next 2-3 yearsSlide28
Membership of RSC Working Groups
RDA Development Forum
Community representation on RDA Steering Committee
Community representation on RDA Board
Email and issue discussion on RDA-L and RDA Vocabularies
Github
project
Selmathons
!
Engagement: get involved!Slide29
Thank you
rscchair@rdatoolkit.org
RSC website
http://www.rda-rsc.org/
RDA Toolkit
http://www.rdatoolkit.org/RDA Registryhttp://www.rdaregistry.info/RDA data, Jane-athons, etc.
http://www.rballs.info/