Resource Description and Access

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Resource Description and Access ( RDA ) is a library set of rules for cataloging publications. Initially developed for use in libraries , the set of rules is also suitable for a wider range of users in areas such as museums and archives. The text of the set of rules is continuously updated and the current version is published exclusively online in the "RDA Toolkit". It is administered and published by ALA Publishing and other institutions.

The Library of Congress , the British Library , Library and Archives Canada , the National Library of Australia , the German National Library , the Swiss National Library and the network systems in the German-speaking area have implemented RDA.

background

The specialist library world traditionally uses different sets of rules and standards for the indexing of publications in the different language and cultural areas. Attempts have been made for decades to achieve standardization in order to simplify international data exchange and to make data production and data storage more efficient.

One of the most frequently used sets of rules worldwide are the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules (AACR), 2nd edition. In 2000, the organization responsible for the further development of this set of rules, the Joint Steering Committee for Revision of the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, began work on an update, which, however, quickly led to a fundamental redesign. This approach was also reflected in the new name Resource Description and Access (RDA). The first edition of the standard appeared in June 2010.

Responsibilities

The Commission of Principals (CoP), consisting of the directors of the British Library, the Library of Congress, the Library and Archives Canada and the National Library of Australia, is the client and responsible for general and strategic questions in connection with the further development of the RDA (or their representatives), as well as the directors of the relevant library associations American Library Association, Canadian Library Association and the "Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals" (CILIP).

The group of publishers, consisting of the American Library Association (ALA), the Canadian Library Association (CLA) and the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), is responsible for all activities related to the publication of the standard.

The RDA Steering Committee (RSC; until 2015: Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA, JSC), which consists of representatives of the above-mentioned libraries and associations and since 2012 the German National Library, is responsible for the technical and content development of the RDA standard represents the German-speaking area.

The further development of the RDA takes place via a fixed revision procedure.

RDA vocabularies

A first set of RDA terms was published in the Open Metadata Registry (OMR) in August 2011. The development and publication of stable RDA elements and controlled vocabularies make data that have been created in accordance with RDA available for linked open data users and corresponding applications. The RDA elements and vocabularies are a fundamental component of RDA that enables the consistent description and retrieval of bibliographic resources.

RDA toolkit

The set of rules, its appendices, glossaries and elements as well as other RDA-related documents are being made available for the first time in the form of a paid online tool (“RDA Toolkit”) to enable modern, differentiated and up-to-date work with the standard. The data elements defined as the minimum standard for the bibliographic description are marked in the text of the online tool. In addition, the application provisions of the Library of Congress and the Program for Cooperative Cataloging, the so-called LC-PCC PS, can be controlled directly. Since 2014, the application guidelines for the German-speaking area (DA-CH-AWR) have also been integrated in the RDA Toolkit.

RDA is offered in different languages. The German, French, Italian, Spanish and Finnish translations are already available in the RDA Toolkit.

EURIG

The "European RDA Interest Group" (EURIG) has existed since September 2011 for the technical exchange between European users. The group sees one of its main tasks in the development and coordination of European statements for the further development of the RDA.

RDA in German-speaking countries

In German-speaking countries, the German National Library , the Swiss National Library and the Austrian Library Association (OBVSG) and other institutions represented in the standardization committee have decided to introduce the RDA. The resolution provides for an implementation of the RDA that does not yet fully exploit all the possibilities of the standard and initially takes into account the use in libraries, but enables the integration into the existing systems within an economically justifiable framework. The authority data of the Common Authority File (GND) has been recorded according to RDA since July 2014. The productive cataloging for the bibliographic data began in 2015. The first data set recorded in accordance with RDA in the Austrian union catalog was saved on August 17, 2015. The first data set was created by the German National Library on October 15, 2015. The first 'Application Profile' for RDA for special materials in the German-speaking area is the indexing of resources with authority data in archives and libraries .

literature

  • Renate Behrens: RDA is evolving - the RDA redesign project . In: Dialog mit Libraries , Volume 29, 2017, No. 1, pp. 25–29, urn : nbn: de: 101-2017030904 .
  • Amy Hart: The RDA primer. A guide for the occasional cataloger . Linworth, Santa Barbara 2010
  • Chris Oliver: Introducing RDA. A guide to the basics . Facet, London 2010, ISBN 978-1-85604-732-6
  • Anne Welsh, Sue Bartley: Practical Cataloging. AACR, RDA and MARC21 . Facet, London 2012
  • Heidrun Wiesenmüller, Silke Horny: RDA basic knowledge An introduction for German-speaking users . 2nd revised and expanded edition. de Gruyter Saur, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-031146-4 (print edition)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Consortium agreement "Use of the RDA Toolkit in German-speaking countries"
  2. ↑ Common authority works with RDA. In: Newsletter standardization and indexing. German National Library, September 4, 2014, p. 3 , accessed October 17, 2014 . ISSN 1862-5959 urn : nbn: de: 101-2014081503  
  3. ↑ The transformation has happened: RDA productive in OBV! August 25, 2015,
  4. ↑ Development according to the new Resource Description and Access RDA standard started . Press release, October 1, 2015.
  5. ↑ Application guidelines for the German-speaking area DA-CH on wiki.dnb.de