From the Federal Depository Library Program Desktop: The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has created a Resource Description and Access (RDA) implementation team to ensure a smooth transition from AACR2 to RDA. GPO cataloging staff are continuing their training efforts, and are now working on sample record creation, the identification of local practices and formal [...]
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GPO Cataloging Update: Full RDA Implementation Expected by April, 2013
Filed by Gary Price on December 18, 2012
Linked Data: The Library of Congress Announces Modeling Initiative, Will Work With Zepheira
Filed by Gary Price on May 23, 2012
From an LC Announcement: The Library of Congress is pleased to announce that it has contracted with Zepheira to help accelerate the launch of the Bibliographic Framework Initiative. A major focus of the project is to translate the MARC 21 format to a Linked Data (LD) model while retaining as much as possible the robust [...]
Filed Under: Info Organization and Cataloging, Metadata Tagged With: Library of Congress, Linked Data, LODLAM, MARC, RDA, Semantic Web, Zepheira
New Report from OCLC Research: A Crosswalk from ONIX Version 3.0 for Books to MARC 21
Filed by Gary Price on May 21, 2012
Title A Crosswalk from ONIX Version 3.0 for Books to MARC 21 Author Jean Godby, Ph.D. OCLC Research Summary A Crosswalk from ONIX Version 3.0 for Books to MARC 21 describes the crosswalk developed at OCLC for mapping the bibliographic elements defined in Version 3.0 of ONIX for Books to MARC 21 with AACR2 encoding. [...]
Filed Under: Info Organization and Cataloging, Metadata, Publishing Tagged With: Bookstores, Jean Godby, MARC, OCLC Research, Onix, RDA
Free: Cooperative Cataloging at Library of Congress Launches RDA Cataloger Training
Filed by Gary Price on May 17, 2012
From the LC Announcement: The Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) Secretariat staffed by the Library of Congress has launched a free, comprehensive and authoritative web-based training series for catalogers making the transition to the new Resource Description and Access (RDA) protocol. “RDA for NACO Catalogers” on the Library’s Cataloger’s Learning Workshop website is a self-paced, [...]
Filed Under: Info Organization and Cataloging, Metadata Tagged With: NACO, Program for Cooperative Cataloging, RDA
Cataloging/Metadata: OCLC-MARC Format Update 2012 (Technical Bulletin 261)
Filed by Gary Price on May 7, 2012
New from OCLC (May 2012) Why Review the Bulletin: To learn about changes to OCLC-MARC records, many of which are related to Resource Description and Access (RDA), the proposed successor to AACR2. Direct to OCLC Technical Bulletin 261 (28 pages; PDF)
Filed Under: Info Organization and Cataloging, Libraries and Librarians, Metadata Tagged With: AACR2, MARC, OCLC, RDA
National Library of Malaysia Plans to Utilize RDA By Next Year
Filed by Gary Price on March 28, 2012
From BERNAMA.com: National Library of Malaysia] director-general, Datuk Raslin Abu Bakar said with the influx of digital resources or linking metadata from multiple formats like hardcover, print books and audio books, there was a need for the library to change its current standard of cataloguing the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR2) to a more user friendly [...]
Filed Under: Info Organization and Cataloging, Libraries and Librarians, Metadata Tagged With: Barbara Tillet, National Library of Malaysia, RDA
Metadata: SkyRiver Announces Novel Approach to RDA Adoption
Filed by Gary Price on December 6, 2011
From SkyRiver: SkyRiver has announced a unique approach to implementing RDA (Resource Description and Access) that allows libraries to adopt this new cataloging standard on a schedule that fits their circumstances. Effective December 1, 2011, SkyRiver users have three options for viewing and exporting bibliographic data: RDA Mode for libraries preparing for or ready to [...]
Filed Under: Info Organization and Cataloging, Libraries and Librarians, Metadata Tagged With: RDA, SkyRiver
New from the Library of Congress: A Bibliographic Framework for the Digital Age
Filed by Gary Price on October 31, 2011
From LC: The Working Group of the Future of Bibliographic Control, as it examined technology for the future, wrote that the Library community’s data carrier, MARC, is “based on forty-year-old techniques for data management and is out of step with programming styles of today.” The Working Group called for a format that will “accommodate and [...]
Filed Under: Info Organization and Cataloging, Libraries and Librarians Tagged With: Library of Congress, MARC, RDA, Working Group of the Future of Bibliographic Control
UPDATE: Resource Description and Access (RDA) and the Implications of RDA for Federal Depository Libraries
Filed by Gary Price on October 6, 2011
From the FDLP Desktop: The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has been keeping track of the upcoming implementation of the new cataloging standards, Resource Description and Access (RDA). The RDA project page has been updated with new information about changes to the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) as a result of RDA implementation at [...]
Filed Under: Government, Info Organization and Cataloging, Metadata Tagged With: GPO, RDA
"Resource Description and Access (RDA) and the Implications of RDA for Federal Depository Libraries"
Filed by Gary Price on July 12, 2011
From the FDLP Desktop: The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) continues to monitor the discussion of the Joint Steering Committee for the Development of RDA: Resource Description and Access. RDA is based on FRBR, or Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records, and was released in 2010. It has undergone testing at the Library of Congress, the [...]
Filed Under: Info Organization and Cataloging, Metadata Tagged With: FRBR, GPO, RDA
