RDA: Boondoggle or Boon? And What About MARC?

Rick J. Block

Head, Special Collections Metadata and Cataloging

Columbia University

NETSL Presentation (April 17, 2009)

• RDA: Boondoggle or Boon? And What About MARC? (PowerPoint)
• RDA: Boondoggle or Boon? And What About MARC? (PDF: 6 slides per page)
• RDA: Boondoggle or Boon? And What About MARC? (PDF: 3 slides per page)

Readings

• Resource Description and Access (RDA): Cataloging Rules for the 20th Century (Karen Coyle and Diane Hillmann)
• RDA: A Cataloguing Code for the 21st Century (Ann Chapman)
• Changing to RDA (Chris Oliver)
• Resource Description and Access (RDA) and New Research Potentials (Shawne Miksa)
• RDA: The Coming Cataloguing Debacle (Michael Gorman)
• Will RDA be DOA? (Roy Tennant)
• Cataloguing Rules!: The Road to RDA (F. Tim Knight)
• Implementing RDA: Call for the Alpha Geeks of Library Metadata (Patrick Hogan)
• RDA and FRBR: An Update (Jenn Riley)
• Getting There (Diane Hillmann)
• RDA For Who? (Diane Hillmann)
• Distinguishing Content from Carrier: The RDA/ONIX Framework for Resource Categorization (Gordon Dunsire)
• RDA Vocabularies: Process, Outcome, Use (Diane Hillman, Karen Coyle, Jon Phipps and Gordon Dunsire)
• Focus on Library Metadata: RDA Vocabularies for a Twenty-First-Century Data Environment (Karen Coyle)
• MARC Must Die (Roy Tennant)
• The Future of MARC: R.I.P. or Let Her Rip? (Mary Finn)
• Radiohead and the Death of MARC Cataloging
• Who Needs MARC? (Lukas Koster)
• Can Bibliographic Data be Put Directly Onto the Semantic Web? (Martha Yee)

Blogs and Discussion Lists

• Coyle's InFormation (Karen Coyle's Blog)
• Metadata Matters (Diane Hillmann's Blog)
• Future4catalogers' Blog (Heidi Hoerman)
• Resource Description and Access: ALA Rep Notes (John Attig)
• RDA-L
• NGC4LIB List
• Cooperative Cataloging Rules Blog

Other Resources

• RDA Website
• Testing Resource Description and Access (RDA)
• Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA: RDA FAQ
• Issues Deferred Until After the First Release of RDA
• Examples of Differences Between AACR2 and RDA (Barbara Tillett)
• Examples for RDA compared to AACR2 (Barbara Tillett)
• Changes to AACR2 Instructions (Joint Steering Committee)
• RDA Features & Functionality (Presentation by Chris Oliver)
• Facing Forward: The Challenges Facing Cataloging and Catalogers (Diane Hillmann)
• Resource Description and Access Happy Fun Time Companion
• Sharing Standards for Bibliographic Data Worldwide: an Overview of Changes in Cataloguing Practices (Barbara Tillett)
• Major RDA Changes From AACR2 By MARC Field (Special Libraries Cataloguing)
• RDA Compared with AACR2 (Tom Delsey)
• RDA in MARC (Sally H. McCallum)
• German symposium on MARC21 (in English)
• Statement of International Cataloguing Principles, 2009
• From Rules to Entities: Cataloging With RDA (Conference Presentations)
• Heidi Hoerman's OCLC/MOUG Presentation
• RDA Element Sets and Value Vocabularies
• Cataloger Scenarios
• Out of the Secret Garden: The RDA/DC Initiative
• DCMI/RDA Task Group Wiki
• RDA to MODS Mapping
• MARC Content Designation Utilization (MCDU) Project
• MARC 21 Format 2009 Changes to Accommodate RDA