Renate Gömpel Germany on Track for International Standards: RDA 1
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek German National Library 2 EURIG-JSC Seminar on RDA, Copenhagen, August 8, 2010
Cooperative library standardization German Library Networks Austrian Library Network (ONB) German Research Foundation Kultusministerkonferenz Committee for Library Standards Office for Library Standards Bavarian State Library Berlin State Library Swiss National Library Public Libraries ekz, services for libraries German National Library 3 EURIG-JSC Seminar on RDA, Copenhagen, August 8, 2010
Organisational structure Committee for Library Standards Office for Library Standards Descriptive and subject cataloguing rules Authority files Data formats and communication interfaces Expert group for descriptive cataloguing Expert group Authority files Expert group Data formats Expert group for subject cataloguing 4 EURIG-JSC Seminar on RDA, Copenhagen, August 8, 2010
Why international? Globalisation of information is indispensable 5 EURIG-JSC Seminar on RDA, Copenhagen, August 8, 2010
Many changes Rapid information & communications technology and media development Web environment worldwide New web technologies, upcoming Semantic web User behavior New role for libraries Need to reduce costs 6 EURIG-JSC Seminar on RDA, Copenhagen, August 8, 2010
Our motivation Identification, selection and contextualization of objects are more than ever essential for the future of information retrieval - and of indexing Libraries have to take up their task to set up a world wide web of reliable (bibliographic) information Weaving a world wide web needs world wide collaboration based on international standards 7 EURIG-JSC Seminar on RDA, Copenhagen, August 8, 2010
Standards in Germany and Austria Paris Principles (1961) ISBD (1974) RAK (1977), RSWK (1986) GKD (1980), SWD (1988), PND (1995) MAB (1976) 8 EURIG-JSC Seminar on RDA, Copenhagen, August 8, 2010
From national to international standards FRBR, FRAD Intern. Cataloguing Principles RAK GKD, PND, SWD MAB RDA in German GND VIAF MARC 21 9 EURIG-JSC Seminar on RDA, Copenhagen, August 8, 2010
Towards international standards beyond MARC 21 and RDA Research into FRBR and FRAD Participation in the VIAF project Contribution to IME-ICC kick-off and participation in the development Research into metadata standards Research into Semantic web standards Research into URIs and persistent identifiers 10 EURIG-JSC Seminar on RDA, Copenhagen, August 8, 2010
Move to MARC 21 MARC 21 as the unique exchange format Project (Mapping, Translation) Adaptation for German needs (local fields) MARBI 11 EURIG-JSC Seminar on RDA, Copenhagen, August 8, 2010
AACR2/RDA Harmonisation of entities Critical review of drafts Comments to drafts 12 EURIG-JSC Seminar on RDA, Copenhagen, August 8, 2010
German annotations to RDA: selected comments RDA as an international code - Language-independent codes where appropriate - No country-specific rules in the international code Suitability for machine-processing - Rules for bibliographic description must enable to share data from the supply chain or from other data providers Suitability for information retrieval - No rules on case-by-case basis - Authority data / controlled forms for access points 13 EURIG-JSC Seminar on RDA, Copenhagen, August 8, 2010
German annotations to RDA: selected comments Web suitability - URIs to identify and link entities and relationships and provide access to resources Compatibility with other international standards - ISBD as a core element set standard - Alignment to and between FRBR, FRAD, Statement of ICP - Alignment to and between MARC 21 and Semantic web standards 14 EURIG-JSC Seminar on RDA, Copenhagen, August 8, 2010
What have we done so far? Translation of RDA prospectus Roundtable with then-chair of JSC Deirdre Kiorgaard Presentations of international speakers and the chairs of JSC at the German annual conferences Information sessions for library networks in Germany Set-up of a project within the German National Library 15 EURIG-JSC Seminar on RDA, Copenhagen, August 8, 2010
DNB s RDA project Data analysis Translation of RDA Application rules Registry Tests Training Implementation Public relations 16 EURIG-JSC Seminar on RDA, Copenhagen, August 8, 2010
Open tasks Decision to implement RDA Translation of RDA Working out application rules - international application rules - German application rules Implementation of German application rules Training materials Education and training of catalogers and other library staff 17 EURIG-JSC Seminar on RDA, Copenhagen, August 8, 2010
What do we need for the future? Less details to catalogue but the right ones Increase the visibility of libraries on the web Find out what the users need that Google is not able to offer Enhance the autority data and offer them on the web ranking high in Google search results 18 EURIG-JSC Seminar on RDA, Copenhagen, August 8, 2010
Thank you! r.goempel@d-nb.de 19 EURIG-JSC Seminar on RDA, Copenhagen, August 8, 2010
Sources Slide 5 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/image:blankmap-world-noborders.png Slide 9 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/image:globe.png 20 EURIG-JSC Seminar on RDA, Copenhagen, August 8, 2010