RDA for administrators: Managing the Transition in Your library – ALCTS series
Oct. 13, 1:00-2:00 pm
Ellis Library, Room 4F51a
Released in June 2010, Resource Description and Access (RDA) is the intended successor to the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules (AACR2). At this initial stage, much remains unknown about the impact that RDA will have on library staff, metadata, systems, and services. One thing is clear: adopting RDA will not happen immediately, and will not be uniform across all institutions. Over the coming months and years, libraries will have different timeframes and levels of support for the shift to RDA. Administrators will require accurate information, particularly from early adopters, on what is required to implement the new cataloging code. During this beginning period, while the U.S. cataloging community awaits a formal decision on adoption resulting from the U.S. National Libraries RDA Test process, how do library administrators and cataloging managers begin to think about preparing their staff and their systems for the transition from AACR2 to RDA?
This ALCTS Webinar will attempt to address, from the perspective of the manager, some of the major issues related to adopting the new cataloging code, including:
- allocating staff and financial resources to understanding, planning for, and adopting RDA
- managing and organizing training for staff
- implications of RDA on policies and procedures for original and copy cataloging
- preparing the ILS for RDA metadata
- managing the integration of RDA and AACR2 records and their displays in the catalog
- managing the impact on vended authority control and cataloging
- assessing the overall costs and benefits of RDA, and its impact on users and public services
- assessing the consequences and potential of RDA for the development and design of future information systems and data structures
- developing mechanisms for sharing implementation experiences across the profession.
Presenter: Christopher Cronin
New models of metadata – ALA Tech Source series
Oct. 27, 1:30-2:30
Ellis Library, Room 4F51a
Presenters Karen Coyle, Chris Oliver, and Diane Hillmann will offer a perspective on RDA from the context of metadata models and with an eye toward sharing library data. Learn the about sharing metadata on the Web and early experiments in library data and RDA. Topics include:
- Semantic Web concepts
- FRBR – the library world’s model
- Application profiles
- Transforming library data
RDA: Benefits for users and catalogers – ALCTS series
Nov. 3, 1:00-2:00 pm
Ellis Library, Room 4F51a
This webinar will explore the benefits of RDA. It will begin by looking at how RDA evolved from AACR2, and will discuss how RDA‘s new direction is advantageous for both users and cataloguers. Do RDA‘s objectives and principles have an impact on the user? How do RDA‘s instructions make a difference for the cataloguer? Will resource descriptions be more precise? Can RDA data support improved navigation? Will RDA allow us to get cataloguing data out of library silos? The webinar will be an opportunity to look at these questions and consider the practical effect of RDA guidelines and instructions on resource description and resource discovery.
Presenter: Christine Oliver
RDA–Designed for current and future environments – ALA Tech Source series
Nov. 10, 1:30-2:30
Ellis Library, Room 4F51a
Learn about RDA’s place on a continuum from legacy data to greater interoperability. Topics include:
- RDA as AACR2 deconstructed
- Alignment with the conceptual models, FRBR and FRAD
- RDA as a flexible and extensible framework
- Recording data that is human readable and machine actionable
- Distinguishing between recording data and encoding or presenting data
- Implementing RDA in libraries: the point of transition
Presenter: Chris Oliver
RDA vocabularies in the semantic web – ALA Tech Source series
Nov. 17, 1:30-2:30
Ellis Library, Room 4F51a
Learn about the RDA Vocabularies and the Open Metadata Registry project. Topics include:
- RDA Vocabularies in relation to the instructions
- The Open Metadata Registry and the RDA Vocabularies
- The Structure of RDA Vocabularies
- Continuing work of the DCMI/RDA Task Group
Presenter: Diane Hillmann
FRBR as a foundation for RDA – ALCTS series
Dec. 15, 1:00-2:00 pm
Ellis Library, Room 4F51a
This webinar will cover the basics of FRBR, including its development and contents. Participants will leave the webinar with an understanding of the entity-relationship model on which FRBR is based, the FRBR entities and relationships, and the FRBR user tasks. The webinar will then address, through an exploration of RDA itself, how FRBR lies at the foundation of RDA’s structure, and what implications that might have on future database structures for our catalog descriptions.
Presenter: Robert L. Maxwell
More information:
ALCTS series: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/index.cfm
ALA TechSource series: http://alatechsource.org/blog/2010/09/ala-techsource-workshop-using-rda-moving-into-the-metadata-future.html