April 24, 2013 NISO/DCMI Webinar: Deployment of RDA (Resource Description and Access) Cataloging and its Expression as Linked Data
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This document summarizes a webinar on deploying Resource Description and Access (RDA) cataloging and expressing it as linked data. The webinar speaker, Alan Danskin from the British Library, discussed RDA as a cataloging standard that provides guidelines for describing resources to support discovery. He explained how RDA works with linked data by using entities, relationships, and attributes expressed as URIs. Challenges in applying RDA as linked data include the complexity of the FRBR model and publishing RDA vocabularies as linked open data. Application profiles help apply RDA by defining the metadata elements, policies, and guidelines for a specific domain or community.
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George R.R. Martin
A game of thrones [Get this]
A song of ice and fire
Translations
Literature about A game of thrones
Did you mean Game of thrones
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April 24, 2013 NISO/DCMI Webinar: Deployment of RDA (Resource Description and Access) Cataloging and its Expression as Linked Data
- 1. NISO/DCMI Webinar: Deployment of RDA (Resource Description and Access) Cataloging and its Expression as Linked Data April 24, 2013 Speaker: Alan Danskin, Metadata Standards Manager at The British Library http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/rda/
- 2. 2 Deployment of RDA cataloguing and its expression as linked data Alan Danskin British Library Representative to JSC NISO Webinar 24/April/2013
- 4. 4 Overview RDA: a brief reminder! RDA and Linked Data Linked data challenges RDA application profiles
- 6. 6 WHAT IS RDA?“RDA provides a set of guidelines and instructions on formulating data to support resource discovery.“
- 7. 7 RDA: Purpose and scope RDA provides a comprehensive set of guidelines and instructions covering all types of content and media. RDA 0.0 Purpose and Scope
- 8. 8 Scope Consideration has been given to the metadata standards used in other communities (archives, museums, publishers, semantic web, etc.) to attain an effective level of alignment between those standards and RDA.
- 9. 9 RDA: Purpose and scope Supersedes Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd ed.
- 10. 10 Practical tool for cataloguers
- 11. 11 RDA: Status RDA was published in 2010 RDA Toolkit Print RDA development Regular toolkit releases RDA update April 2012 RDA update July 2013 TBC
- 12. 12 RDA Translations May 14th Toolkit Release (TBC) French translation German translation Official translations in progress Chinese (print only) Spanish (online and print)
- 13. 13 RDA: Implementations Bibliographic Data Services (BDS) British Library Cambridge University Library OLIS/Bodleian Library University of Warwick Library of Congress National Library of Medicine University of Chicago
- 14. 14 RDA: Implementations Library and Archives Canada (2013) National Library of Australia (2013) German Speaking Library Community (2013-2015) Germany Austria Switzerland
- 15. 15 RDA: Implementations Koninklijke Bibliotheek (NL) (2013-14) Philippines (2013) National Library of Scotland (2014) National Library of Finland (2015)
- 16. 16 RDA Administration - CoP ALA BL CLA CILIP LAC LC NLA British Library Library & Archives Canada Library of Congress National Library of Australia American Library Association Chartered Institute of Library & Information Professionals Canadian Library Association Committee of Principals
- 17. 17 Supporting Organizational Structure Committee of Principals Fund Trustees/ Co-Publishers Joint Steering Committee ALA CC:DA ACOC BL CCC CILIP/BL LCDNB
- 18. 18 JSC in Chicago, Nov. 2012 Christine Frodl (DNB) William Leonard (LAC) Gordon Dunsire (CILIP) live on the Internet Barbara Tillett (JSC Chair) John Attig (ALA) Judy Kuhagen (JSC Sec) Alan Danskin (BL) Kevin Marsh (ACOC)
- 19. 19 RDA and Linked data
- 20. 20 Linked Data Environment Semantic Web (RDF Triples) Subject Verb Object Noun/adjective verb Noun/adjective (literals) George R.R. Martin is the creator of A game of thrones or better for machines: URI URI URI
- 21. 21 RDA and Open Data RDA element set RDA elements RDA vocabularies Open Metadata Registry
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- 23. 23 URI
- 24. 24 FRBR’s Entity-Relationship Model Entities Relationships Attributes (data “elements” in RDA) relationship One Entity Another Entity
- 25. 25 Relationships are fundamental to RDA… ENTITY = PERSON Identifier for the Person = n80160390 Preferred Name for the Person: George R.R. Martin Variant Name for the Person: ENTITY = WORK Identifier for the Work = W98765 Preferred title for the Work: A game of thrones Form of Work: Novel is author of has author
- 26. 26 Relating Stuff George R R Martin A game of thrones A song of ice and fire author translation Hra o trůny (Czech) Hana Březáková translator A clash of kings More… sequelprequel T.V. Adap tation Game of thrones Season 1 Season 2 T.V Adap tation TV Adap tation contains sequel Henry Jacoby Games of thrones and philosophy Subject editorproducer Whole part
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- 29. 29 George R.R. Martin A game of thrones [Get this] A song of ice and fire Translations Literature about A game of thrones Did you mean Game of thrones (Television Series)?
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- 32. 32 Is FRBR a constraint on Linked Data? FRBR is either Enabling Too complex It depends on your perspective
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- 35. 36 Dumbing Up? Sceptical Unexpected benefits Different Name Spaces
- 36. 37 “Publication” of the vocabularies in progress JSC is finalising definition of terms and merging vocabularies where appropriate
- 37. 38 Vocabulary Challenges Quantity Definitions Precision Semantic mapping Competing priorities
- 39. 40 Application profile an application profile is a set of metadata elements, policies, and guidelines defined for a particular application Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Glossary
- 40. 41 Application Profile Functional Requirements Domain Model Description Set Profile and usage guidelines Syntax Guidelines and Data Formats
- 41. 42 Functional Requirements Describes what a community wants to accomplish with its application RDA’s functional requirements are defined by FRBR and FRAD. The requirements are related to resource discovery and based on specific user tasks.
- 42. 43 Domain Model Characterizes the types of things described by the metadata and their relationships FRBR / FRAD
- 43. 44 Description set profile and usage guidelines Enumerates the terms to be used and the rules for their use RDA Element Analysis Table http://www.rda-jsc.org/docs/6rda-element- analysis-table.pdf RDA instructions
- 44. 45 Syntax Guidelines and Data Formats Machine syntax that will be used to encode the data RDA is agnostic about the syntax to be used to encode RDA data. MARC Mapping implementation/backwards compatibility RDF & RDF/S – in progress
- 45. 46 Summary Functional Requirements FRBR/FRAD Domain Model FRBR/FRAD Description Set Profile RDA Element Set Usage Guidelines RDA Instructions Syntax Guidelines / Data Format In progress
- 46. 47 Links Joint Steering Committee for the Development of RDA http://www.rda-jsc.org/ RDA Toolkit http://www.rdatoolkit.org/ Open Metadata Registry http://metadataregistry.org/ RDA namespace http://rdvocab.info/
- 47. 48 Links RIMMF RDA in Many Metadata Formats http://www.marcofquality.com/rimmf/doku.php?id=rimmf BNF Linked data demonstrator http://data.bnf.fr/
- 48. NISO/DCMI Webinar Deployment of RDA (Resource Description and Access) Cataloging and its Expression as Linked Data NISO/DCMI Webinar • April 24, 2013 Questions? All questions will be posted with presenter answers on the NISO website following the webinar: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/rda/
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Editor's Notes
- #21: I certainly don’t claim any deep expertise in linked data or RDF, so here is a very brief introductionRDF is the official W3C Recommendation for Semantic Web data models.RDF is a deceptively simple way of expressing information by modelling whatever you want to say as statements including a subject and object, linked by a predicate. The “triple”.– we can think of them as sentences in a language – with a subject, a verb, and an object. Using this approach we can say George R.R. Martin is the creator of (the novel) A game of thronesHowever, rather than using literal strings, like George R.R. Martin, to represent things of interest, RDF encourages us to use URIs to identify each component of the triple. Using URIs has many advantages. It allows us to free identification of the thing from any specific label. It allows lots of information about a thing to be associated with the thing. It also makes them identifiable and actionable by machines.In this context the concept of the “record” or “description”, so familiar to librarians, is atomised into separate statements.For example, George R.R. Martin (see slide)