LCDGT terms for gender in authority records

If you create or edit authority records, you should be aware that RDA no longer incorporates the terms “male,” “female,” and “not known” for gender, and that PCC policy is now to use terms from LCDGT (Library of Congress Demographic Group Categories Term and Code List) in field 375 ($2 lcdgt).

You can access LCDGT from ClassWeb.  If you do not have ClassWeb access, you can retrieve a PDF document from the Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate home page, though it will be slightly less current.  Netanel Ganin of Brandeis University has also posted the terms in a more navigable page in the style of ClassWeb, and he plans to keep his list up to date with each update.

The terms in LCDGT can potentially be used in any setting where you need controlled, single-facet vocabulary for age, educational level, ethnic or cultural identification, gender, language, medical or psychological condition or disability, national or regional affiliation, occupation or field of activity, religion, sexual orientation, or other social group identification; so we may have occasion to refer to it in the future even if we are not assigning gender designations in authority records.

(Gender in authority records and in RDA will be discussed in a little more depth in a forthcoming post on Flaming Catheads.)

 

RDA Full record examples and rballs revised

Announced on the RSC website:

The RDA full record examples on the Toolkit website have been revised. The examples show authority and bibliographic records in both an RDA element view and a MARC encoding view of the record.

There are also two examples showing diagrams of specific RDA entities, elements, and relationships. More will be added later.

That examples page also includes a link to rball versions of some of the bibliographic examples; they are available in both RIMMF native RDA format and RDF linked data format.

These examples may be accessed from the RDA Toolkit website (http://www.rdatoolkit.org/examples/MARC) or from the link on the Tools tab in RDA Toolkit (http://access.rdatoolkit.org/).

The examples are freely available to all. No subscription to RDA Toolkit is required to access and download the examples.

Posted:23 May 2016

 

“Getting Ready for RDA” at COSUGI 2013

On March 16 I gave a presentation at COSUGI’s annual conference in Salt Lake City on “Getting Ready for RDA.”  It is an update, with less Illinois emphasis and some more specific SirsiDynix references, of last October’s “Wait a Minute, How Many Months”?; I’m attaching PDFs in case anyone might be interested in the newer information.  After editing my speaker’s notes a little I will post them as well.

One thing I emphasized in the presentation more than in the posted material is that preparation for RDA involves a lot of policy planning, much of which will probably be done while you’re learning about the code. Among other things this is an occasion for examining and rethinking your library’s or consortium’s existing policies.

And corollary to that: As you make these decisions, it is very important to document, not only the decisions themselves, but the reasons for them. Eventually someone after you will be revisiting the issues you’re dealing with now, quite possibly someone who will not have been around for these initial discussions. They will appreciate knowing the context in which you established your policies and practices, which they can use in evaluating what they should do at that undetermined point in the future. And in fact you and your colleagues may well be returning to these questions yourselves; and it can be helpful, when re-evaluating what you’ve done, to have an answer to the question–literally–”What were we thinking?”

getting_ready_for_rda

Some RDA Training Resources 2013-02-14

UPDATE: Speaker’s notes:

Getting Ready for RDA notes for posting 2013-03-25

 

LC RDA Record examples

With the start date of LC “converting” to RDA they have shared some (in my opinion) real world examples of RDA records. They can be found here.

 

Two Presentations from ILA 2012

From the Illinois Library Assocation’s 2012 Annual Conference, Peoria, October 9:

Fantastic (and Free!) Cataloging Tools, presented by Erica Laughlin, RSA Cataloging and Database Administrator, Resource Sharing Alliance NFP:

Fantastic_Free_Cat_Tools_101112

A wealth of useful resources here, including DDC tools, converters and calculators, RDA resources, many more.

Wait a Minute, How Many Months?: Getting Ready Now that RDA Is Almost Here:

Wait a Minute, How Many Months 2012-10-17 (PPT)

Wait a Minute, How Many Months 2012-10-17 (PDF)

Some RDA Training Resources 2012-10-11

I have saved my presentation as both PPT so you can see the notes, and PDF in case you have trouble viewing the PPT.

Both Erica and I added a little extra information based on the discussion at our presentations.

 

New(ish) RDA Examples from LC

Some time ago we posted a link to LC’s training examples for RDA, first established around the time of the test period. There is a more updated list here, under the title “RDA Record Examples”, with documents focused on different types of materials. (You may notice, among other things, that the tagging reflects the use of repeatable field 264, rather than 260, for publication and copyright data.)

 

RDA on the Front Lines

With apologies for the long delay (for those who attended), here is the text of my presentation on RDA at the On the Front Lines conference in April in Springfield, Illinois.

RDA on the Front Lines

(Cross-posted at Flaming Catheads.)

 

End of the RDA test period and LC’s post-test policy

From Judith Kuhagen on the RDA-L list (and others):

End of US RDA Test: LC policy during interim period

The Library of Congress will not create original RDA bibliographic records and generally will not create RDA authority records during the interim period after the US RDA Test ends on December 31, 2010 through the announcement of any implementation decision.

Some US RDA Test participants who are PCC NACO participants will continue to create RDA bibliographic records after Dec. 31, 2010. Other non-US RDA Test participants are creating RDA records now and may/will continue to create RDA records.

RDA records will be used by LC during this interim period in the following categories:

— CIP verification;
— Records created by other libraries, vendors, etc., for materials being added to LC’s collections.

In both categories, the authorized access points may be all RDA forms, all AACR2 forms, or a combination of AACR2 and RDA forms; name authority records may or may not exist in the LC/NACO Authority File.

LC’s internal procedures are posted at http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/existing_RDA_records.pdf

Send questions to LChelp4rda@loc.gov.

(Cross-posted at Flaming Catheads)

 

RDA, the Next Phase

Joy Anhalt, Marjorie Bloss (of Dominican University’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science), Nancy Johnson (of the Joliet Public Library, moderating), and I presented a program on RDA at the Illinois Library Association 2010 Annual Conference in Chicago last Wednesday.

Our presentations, and documentation of some of the resources we consulted, are attached below.

RDA, the Next Phase (.ppt): Joy summarizes the development of RDA from FRBR and FRAD, introduces some key terms and concepts, and takes us through a timeline of what has been done and what is planned:

RDA, the Next Phase

Cataloging with RDA (.ppt): I expand on some of the terminology, explore the structure of RDA a little, and examine some selected examples of cataloging under AACR2 compared with RDA:

Cataloging with RDA

Getting Around in the RDA Toolkit (.ppt): Marjorie takes us on a tour of the Toolkit, looking at its layout and demonstrating key features (Marjorie’s demonstration was live online, but these screen captures illustrate her points):

Getting Around in the RDA Toolkit

Resources (.doc): A list of mostly online resources on various aspects of FRBR, RDA, and related metadata issues:

Resources

RDA Resources

 

Seeing Standards: A Visualization of the Metadata Universe

Does it seem to you that there’s a bewildering array of metadata standards out there?

Here’s a vivid illustration of how right you are:

http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/~jenlrile/metadatamap/

“This visual map of the metadata landscape is intended to assist planners with the selection and implementation of metadata standards.

“Each of the 105 standards listed here is evaluated on its strength of application to defined categories in each of four axes: community, domain, function, and purpose. The strength of a standard in a given category is determined by a mixture of its adoption in that category, its design intent, and its overall appropriateness for use in that category.”

From the linked page you can access three PDF files: A HUGE poster of the visualization (36 in. x 108 in.!), a metadata standard glossary in poster form (a more manageable 36 x 41 inches), and a metadata standard glossary in pamphlet form.