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The RDA Vocabularies

What They Are, How They Work


What We’ll be Doing Today
Sorting out some important definitions
A brief history of the RDA Vocabularies
A structural tour of the vocabularies,
including:
Rationale and decision making
General and FRBR-constrained elements
Potential for extension
Language versions of RDA Vocabularies
Important related work
Putting it all together, and shifting our focus

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What We Can’t Show You Yet
How RDA will be working in the real world
WHY?: There aren’t tools yet, and we don’t
really know what they’ll look like …
But maybe we can make some educated
guesses?
Most likely the tools will be form-based (like
the MARC tools are)
There are likely to be fewer places where
text is typed in and more where pull-down
lists are available (the benefit of
vocabularies)
The FRBR structure, if used intelligently by
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About the RDA Vocabularies
Where we started; where we are now

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A Brief History
It all started in London, the last day of April

2007
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What Was Accomplished
The participants agreed that DCMI and
the Joint Steering Committee for the
Development of RDA should work
together to:
Develop an RDA Element Vocabulary
Expose RDA Value Vocabularies
Develop an RDA Application Profile,
based on FRBR and FRAD
The first two are largely complete and
under review; the third is started

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Why Was This Meeting
Important?
It represented a recognition on the part
of library leaders of the importance of a
more web-focused approach
The collaboration begun at that meeting
has significantly changed the
conversation around library data
standards
We’re talking about new ways of creating
and managing data
We’re broadening our view of the role of
libraries within the larger world of
information
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Our new world is collaborative, multi-lingual,
Building the Vocabularies
Decisions and reasoning

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The General Strategy
lWe used the Semantic Web as our “mental
model”
lWanted to create a “bridge” between XML
and RDF to support innovation in the library
community as a whole, not just those at the
cutting edge or the trailing edge
lWe registered the FRBR entities as classes in
a ‘FRBR in RDA’ vocabulary, to enable
specific relationships between RDA
properties and FRBR
lIFLA has followed suit using the Open
Metadata Registry to add the ‘official’ FRBR
entities, FRAD, FRSAR and ISBD
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Structure: Rationale &
Decisions
Property and value vocabularies are
registered in the Open Metadata Registry
(formerly the NSDL Registry):
http://metadataregistry.org/rdabrowse.htm
Used RDF Schema (RDFS), Simple
Knowledge Organisation System (SKOS)
and Web Ontology Language (OWL)
Decisions were oriented to favor approaches
that can be generalized to make other
vocabulary based standards web-friendly,
available for use in applications, and easily
updated and mapped by communities of
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The Structure, Simplified
FRBR in RDA Vocabulary declared as classes
RDA Properties declared as a ‘generalized’
vocabulary, with no explicit relationship to
FRBR entities
Subproperties for the generalized elements
include those explicitly related to FRBR
entities (using ‘domain’)
Label/Name includes (Work) or other class to
provide unique name (unless the entity
name already appears in the name of the
property)
Other generalized subproperties usable by
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Why Generalized Properties?
We think of the ‘generalized’ RDA properties
as the real RDA vocabulary
The ‘bounded’ properties should be seen as
the first pass at an RDA Application Profile
Extensions can be built easily from the
generalized properties
Mapping will be simpler and cleaner using
the generalized properties (since most
properties mapped to or mapped from RDA
will not be based on FRBR)
Generalized properties are much more
acceptable to non-library implementers
(not often using FRBR)
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Property (Generalized, no FRBR relationship) S e m a n tic
W eb

Subproperty (with relationship to one FRBR entity)

FRBR Entity

T h e S im p le C a se :
Lib ra ry A p p lica tio n s O n e Pro p e rty --
O n e FR B R E n tity

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Book format Semantic
Web

Book format (Manifestation)

Manifestation

The Simple Case:


Library One Property--
Applications One FRBR Entity

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http://RDVocab.info/Elements/bookFormatManifestation

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More Complex Relationships
lThere are multiple techniques used in
RDA to make the connection between
FRBR entities and RDA properties
lWe tried to reconcile those in the RDA
Vocabularies
lSome properties related to more than
one FRBR entity
lRelationships in Appendix J actually
include the name of the FRBR entity in
the name and have separate definitions
(we re-used this strategy for the FRBR-
bounded properties)
lOther properties and sub-properties
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ERDs, with the same definitions and no


Property (Generalized, no FRBR relationship) Semantic
Web

Subproperty (with relationship to one FRBR entity)

FRBR Entity

Subproperty (with relationship to one FRBR entity)

FRBR Entity

Library The Not-So-Simple Case:


Applications One Property—more than
One FRBR Entity
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Extent Semantic
Web

Extent (Manifestation)

FRBR Manifestation

Extent (Item)

FRBR Item

Library The Not-So-Simple Case:


Applications One Property—more than
One FRBR Entity
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Roles: Attributes or
Properties?
In 2005, the DC Usage Board worked with
LC to build a formal representation of
the MARC Relators so that these terms
could be used with DC
lThis work provided a template for the
registration of the role terms in RDA (in
Appendix I) and, by extension, the other
RDA relationships
lRole and relationship properties are
registered at the same level as
elements, rather than as attributes (as
MARC does with relators, and the RDA
Toolkit does in its XML schemas)
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Mapping,
Etc.
“Super” Property

Semantic
Subproperty (Generalized, no FRBR relationship) Web

Subproperty (with relationship to one FRBR entity)

FRBR Entity

Library The Roles Case:


Applications Properties, Subproperties
and FRBR Entities
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Mapping,
Etc.
RDA:Creator

Semantic
RDArole:Composer Web

RDArole:Composer (Work)

Work

Library The Roles Case:


Applications Properties, Subproperties
and FRBR Entities
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Aggregated Statements
lRDA sets up Publication, Distribution,
Manufacture and Production
statements very much the way they
have been done since catalog card
days:
lAggregation of Place, Name and
Date are obvious leftovers from
catalog cards
lWe viewed those aggregations as
‘Syntax Encoding Schemes’ (as
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Model)
Pre-coordinated Statements: Structure

Aggregated Statement (no domain or range)

Domain: FRBR Entity


Aggregated Statement Subproperty

Range: RDA Syntax Encoding Scheme (Subclass of RDF Datatype)

Range: [Specific] Encoding Scheme (Subclass)

General Property (no domain or range)

Subproperty
Option 1
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Pre-coordinated Statements: Example

Publication Statement (no domain or range)

Domain: Manifestation
Publication Statement (Manifestation)

Range: RDA Syntax Encoding Scheme (Subclass of RDF Datatype)

Range: Publication Statement Encoding Scheme (Subclass)

Place of publication (no domain or range)

Place of publication (Manifestation)


Option 1
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Time for Questions?

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Why This Works
How do we take full advantage of
the RDA Vocabulary infrastructure?
Relationships between properties is
built-in, allowing ‘bottom up’
aggregation of data
Repeating the property relationships
in ‘nested’ schemas is redundant
Tools to enable easier data creation
(with machine assistance) are critical
Humans using these tools will have
access to the structure but need not
know all the details
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ID=23456 hasPublicationDate “1987”

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Manifestation
ID=23456 hasPublisher “Delacorte Press”

ID=23456 hasPlaceOfPublication “New York”

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that Edition Statement is a Manifestation Property

Edition
Statement

Edition Statement (Manifestation)

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R e la tio n sh ip d e fin e d h e re

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Extension
The inclusion of generalized properties
provides a path for extension of RDA into
specialized library communities and non-
library communities
They may have a different notion of how
FRBR ‘aggregates’
For example, a colorized version of a film
may be viewed as a separate work
They may not wish to use FRBR at all
They may have additional properties to
include, that have a relationship to the
RDA properties
This allows other communities to use
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this data without problems
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R D A : a d a p te d A sA R a d io S crip t

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What Does This Structure Buy
Us?
Release from the tyranny of records
Potential for use with a variety of
encodings
Ability to maintain statements at a
more granular level
Opportunity to re-think how we build,
maintain and share data
Potential for sharing data beyond the
library silo
A challenge to our old notions of what
library data can do and should be doing
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What We’ve Learned
We wrote about the decisions we made
for RDA in DLib Magazine:
http://dlib.org/dlib/january10/hillmann/01hillmann.
We need to continue to disclose what
we’ve learned and work on building
best practices documentation in this
environment
We need research and innovation to help
us move forward!
Review by JSC is in process, and
announcements will be made when
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What About
Internationalization?
And other library vocabularies?

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Multi-Lingual RDA
Registered elements and vocabularies
can include multiple languages
The Open Metadata Registry has been
working with the Deutsche
Nationalbibliothek to demonstrate this
with German translations in the OMR
Other language versions being discussed
with national libraries and language groups
by ALA Publishing in conjunction with
translations of RDA guidance text
OMR enhancements are planned to
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easier
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Important Related Work: IFLA
“Functional Requirements” family or
“FRBR family of models”:
FRBR, 1998: Bibliographic Records [data]
FRAD, 2009: Authority Data
FRSAD, 2010: Subject Authority Data
Consolidated model in development
RDF/XML representation of the consolidated
edition of ISBD in development
Relating FR, ISBD and RDA, SKOS, FOAF, etc.

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FR in RDF
Representation of FRBRer model element set
is mainly complete
Classes and properties have “approved”
status
FRAD and FRSAD close behind
Representation in Resource Description
Framework Schema (RDFS) is informing
work on combining and consolidating the
model family
Also supplies “learning curve” for Semantic
Web environment
FRBR is a conceptual model built on the E-R
methodology which is intrinsically
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ISBD is a data standard
RDA
p ro p e rtie s

E xte n
t

E xte n t E xte n t o f textE xte n t o f stillim a g e E xte n t ( I/)


( M /)

E xte n t o f te xt E xte n t o f text ( I/)E xte n t o f stillim a g e ( I/)E xte n t o f stillim a g e ( M /)


( M /)

La b e l S u b p ro p e r
( Domain / Range ) ty

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R D A / IFLA p ro p e rtie s ( m in im a l
lin ka g e )
E xte n has
t exte n t

h a s exte n t
( R /)
h a s exte n t o f th e ca rrie r

E xte n t o f te xt E xte n t h a s exte n t o f th e ca rrie r ( M /)


( M /)

N o te : M a n ife sta tio n su b -cla ss- o f


R e so u rce
E xte n t o f te xt
( M /)
FR B R lite IS B D lite
S u b p ro p e r Sam e
La b e l RD FR B IS B
ty As
( Domain / Range ) A R D

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R D A / IFLA p ro p e rtie s ( m a xim u m
lin ka g e )
E xte n has
t exte n t

h a s exte n t
( R /)
h a s exte n t o f th e ca rrie r

E xte n t o f te xt E xte n t h a s exte n t o f th e ca rrie r ( M /)


( M /)

E xte n t o f te xt
( M /)

RD FR B IS B
A R D
La b e l S u b p ro p e r Sam e FR B R lite IS B D lite
( Domain / Range ) ty As
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R D A / IFLA / o th e r p ro p e rtie s ( m in im a l
lin ka g e )
fo rm a
t

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t exte n t E xte n t
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h a s exte n t
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E xte n t o f te xt E xte n t h a s exte n t o f th e ca rrie r ( M /)
( M /)

E xte n t o f te xt
( M /)

n u m Pa g e s n u m V o lu m e s
( D / l) ( C / l)
a sse s: M a n ife sta tio n , R e so u rce , C o lle ctio n , D o cu m e n t, S ize O rD u ra tio n , N o te : D o cu m e n t su b -cla ss- o f
e ra l R e so u rce
S u b p ro p e r Sam e
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( Domain / Range ) A R D T O
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C
Clearing Up Some Confusion

What we are (and aren’t) talking about …

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The XML Model of ‘the World’
XML assumes a 'closed' world
(domain), usually defined by an
XML schema:
"We know all of the data describing
this resource. The single description
must be a valid document according
to our schema. The data must be
valid.”
XML's document model provides
a neat equivalence to a
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metadata 'record’
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The RDF Model of ‘the World’
RDF (Resource Description
Framework, language of the Semantic
Web) assumes an 'open' world:
"There's an infinite amount of unknown data
describing this resource yet to be
discovered. It will come from an infinite
number of providers. There will be an
infinite number of descriptions. Those
descriptions must be consistent."
RDF's statement-oriented data
model has no notion of 'record’
(rather, statements can be
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aggregated for a fuller description
In Both, We Talk About
Statements
In XML these are ‘attribute/value pairs’
Where, in the context of a bounded record
structure we know what we’re describing
(there’s an identifier of some kind in the
record telling us we’re describing
‘Huckleberry Finn’)
Ex.: Author = Twain, Mark
In RDF, these are independent statements,
in the form of ‘triples’:
Ex.: The author of Huckleberry Finn is Mark
Twain, or
Subject = Huckeberry Finn
Predicate = hasAuthor
Object = Mark Twain
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Shifting the Way We Think
We need to see ourselves as data
consumers and data providers in a
much wider world
Our thinking about how we build
and share data needs to reflect
modern ideas about data creation
and use
‘Records’ are aggregations of
information, not units
Our new tools may continue to look
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The Old World
V e n d o r R e co rd s

O C LC

C a ta lo g

Human-based Updates
S p e cia l C o lle ctio n s

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The Newer World V e n d o r R e co rd s

User
Interface(s)

Web
Lib ra ry D a ta Data
O C LC

Human-based Updates
S p e cia l C o lle ctio n s
Data
Services
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What Are Data Services?

D a ta Data Improvement Services


S e rvice s

Ex.: Match text versions of names with URIs


Ex.: Transform MARC records to RDA
Ex.: Fix date formats

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What Are Data Services?

D a ta Harvesting/Distribution Service
S e rvice s

Ex.: Routinely harvest new statements from


approved sources
Ex.: Expose new human and service created
for use by other services

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What Are Data Services?

D a ta Indexing Services
S e rvice s

Ex.: Index full text resources for combined


metadata/text search
Ex.: Support specialized filtering

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What Are Data Services?

D a ta Mapping Services
S e rvice s

Ex.: Provide extended search/browse across forma


using a variety of property and value maps
Ex.: Support creation and maintenance of mappin
and relationships

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The Big WHY?
What are the implications of these changes in the

way we see our world?

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What Does This Imply for Us?
We need to expand our ideas of what
machines can and should do for us, and
how to share the load
We need to articulate better what we, as
humans, bring to the table (and stop
thinking we need to control it ALL)
We need to educate ourselves about this
new world we live in (what it is and
isn’t)
We need to understand enough to work
with our vendors to make it happen in
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Friendlier Information for Humans?

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The World is Waking Up …

LCCN

VIAF

SELIBR

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And Beginning to Understand

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Who’s Doing This?
 OCLC
Creating persistent URIs for VIAF authority
records, so that the can be linked from places
like Wikipedia
Extracting data from Wikipedia and attempting
to match data with information already in VIAF
(or potential candidates)
Thinking about working with Wikipedia to supply
more VIAF and WorldCat Identities links to
them
 Library of Congress
The Linkypedia pages (and RSS feed) were
created by Ed Summers, an LC staffer
Talking about replacing MARC:
http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition/news/framework
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More Questions?

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Links and Contact Info
DCMI/RDA Task Group Wiki:
http://dublincore.org/dcmirdataskgroup/
RDA Vocabularies:
http://metadataregistry.org/rdabrowse.htm
Diane: metadata.maven@gmail.com

Slides on IFLA Vocabularies by Gordon


Dunsire
Flickr images thanks to: Trois Têtes (TT),

Craft*ology

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