(Slides 31-34 of the presentation)
31 … getting to the future
Getting there requires a lot of further work. RDA currently stands between the past and the future It contains a lot of old instructions that will need to be evaluated and updated. The models themselves are still incomplete; in particular, subject entities and relationships are currently being explored by the FRBR Review Group, and a draft was distributed recently. Further controlled vocabularies need to be registered; the possibilities of linked data needs to be expanded. And we need systems that can exploit these new structures for creating, storing, sharing, and using linked data.
32 … waiting for the future
In the meantime (going back to my initial point), RDA provides substantial continuity with AACR2; it should not be difficult to apply RDA to the same sorts of resource description tasks that they are accustomed to perform. MARC 21 is being expanded to support RDA; vendors are following these developments, and should be ready for an implementation early in 2011.
And in the future, MARC itself is likely to migrate into an XML-based standard. RDA implementation is being actively supported by the national libraries, shared databases such as OCLC, and system vendors. Once RDA is released, and the testing begins, more information should be forthcoming from all of these sources.
33. … waiting for the future II
And we are ALL waiting for our first look at RDA as an online product. The product itself will contain a variety of tools to support the use of RDA.
. workflows
. schemas [both of these are “views” of the instructions customized for particular users and tasks]
. shared examples
Eventually we hope that RDA can be integrated into our ILS systems, providing links to RDA instructions from individual components of the system’s workforms.
34. Staying informed about RDA
I will end by posting some URLs. I hope these are visible in your handouts. There is a site for RDAonline. This is where the full draft was posted, and where information about the RDA product will be posted.
There is a new URL for the JSC website. All of the JSC working documents are now being posted on the JSC Web site, along with reports and announcements about the progress of RDA.
If you want to engage in informal discussion of RDA, consider joining the RDA-L discussion list. There is a link for how to join on the JSC site. The ALA committee that contributes to RDA development also has a website with lots of relevant information.
Finally, I have included the base URL for the registry where the RDA element set and vocabularies are hosted:
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