FRBR and RDA Training Resources List

Use this list to access FRBR and RDA documentation beyond UC San Diego. For local UC San Diego FRBR and RDA documentation and training visit this link.

FRBR

1. FRBR, FRAD, FRSAD at IFLA web site

• FRBR Full text current version in PDF "Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records", first published in print, 1998; other related information available at: http://www.ifla.org/publications/functional-requirements-for-bibliographic-records
• FRAD (Functional Requirements for Authority Data" information and translated full text available at: http://www.ifla.org/publications/functional-requirements-for-authority-data
• FRSAD (Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data" full-text and inforamtion available at: http://www.ifla.org/node/1297

2. Presentation Files

• Barbara Tillett: What is FRBR? Revised Feb 2004. http://www.loc.gov/cds/downloads/FRBR.PDF
• Barbara Tillett: FRBR. ALA 2009 Annual Preconference http://presentations.ala.org/images/b/bd/FRBR_ALA_Preconf_2009Julyrev2.ppt
• John Espley. 2009. Enriched User Searching:  FRBR as the Next Dimension in Meaningful Information Retrieval  (http://wikis.ala.org/midwinter2009/images/0/0c/CcsMW09_Espley.pdf)

 
3. Recorded Webcasts

• Barbara Tillett: "FRBR: Things You Should Know, But Were Afraid to Ask" (03/04/2009, RUNNING TIME: 57 minutes) 
  • DESCRIPTION: This presentation for non-catalogers is intended to present basic concepts and benefits of using the FRBR conceptual model (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) in resource discovery systems.
• James P. Ascher and Peter J. Rolla: Don’t Tilt at Windmills, an Active Learning Approach to Teaching FRBR, archived webinar (December 1, 2010)

4.  Reference Tools

• "Understanding FRBR: What it is and how it will affect our retrieval tools" / edited by Arlene G. Taylor (2007)
• "FRBR: a guide to the perplexed" / Robert L. Maxwell (2008
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RDA Overview and Background

1. Presentation Files

2. Recorded Webcasts

• Karen Coyle: ALA TechSource Workshop: Session 1: "New models of Metadata" (10/27/2010, RUNNING TIME: 90 minutes) ; PowerPoint presentation file
• Christine Oliver: ALA TechSource Workshop:Session 2: "RDA: Designated for Current and Future Environments" (11/10/2010, RUNNING TIME: 90 minutes) ; PowerPoint presentation file
• Diana Hillman: ALA TechSource Workshop: Session 3: "RDA Vocabularies in the Semantic" (11/27/2010, RUNNING TIME: 90 minutes) ; PowerPoint presentation file
• Barbara Tillett: "Cataloging Principles and RDA: Resource Description and Access" (06/10/2008, RUNNING TIME: 49 minutes) ; Webcast transcript 
  • DESCRIPTION: The second in a series on RDA: Resource Description and Access, the next generation cataloging code designed for the digital environment. This presentation deals with the cataloging principles that have influenced the development of RDA; the challenges they present to the international sharing of bibliographic and authority data; and the challenges they present to the developers of RDA.
• Barbara Tillett: "Resource Description and Access: Background / Overview" (05/14/2008, RUNNING TIME: 67 minutes) ; Webcast transcript
  • DESCRIPTION: RDA (Resource Description and Access), the next generation cataloging code designed for the digital environment, is under development. This presentation provides background on its development and a general overview of the conceptual models, international principles, and structure of this new code.
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RDA: Changes from AACR2

1. Presentation files:

• Adam L. Schiff, ALCTS Webinar PowerPoint presentation "Changes from AACR2 to RDA, Part 1” (02/02/11)
• Steve Shadle, ALCTS Webinar PowerPoint presentation "RDA and Serials Catalogers Webinar" (03/02/11)
• Adam L. Schiff, PowerPoint presentation PDF file "Change from AACR2 to RDA: A comparison of examples" (Rev May 2011)
• Renette Davis, PowerPoint presentation "RDA Serials Cataloging: Changes from AARC2 to RDA" (09/22/2010)

2. Recorded webcasts:

• Barbara Tillett, "RDA Changes from AACR2 for Texts" (01/12/2010, RUNNING TIME: 75 minutes)
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RDA Toolkit

• http://www.rdatoolkit.org/training  -- There's to be a link to this resource in the new Connexion Client March/April 2011  (see attached email)
• AACR to RDA Using the RDA Toolkit presented by Troy Linker (February 4, 2011)
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OCLC and RDA

• Webinar "Cataloging Defensively: "When to Input a New Record" in the Age of DDR" --presented 10/28/10 & 11/1/10 (see list of recorded webinar:http://www.oclc.org/us/en/worldcat/catalog/quality/expert/websessions.htm
• OCLC Enhance requirements and application instructions http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/worldcat/records/enhancerequirements/default.htm
• OCLC's RDA Resource website: http://www.oclc.org/us/en/rda/about.htm
• Technical Bulletin #258
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Library of Congress

• Catalogers Learning Workshop RDA Training Materials
• The Library prepares for RDA: http://www.loc.gov/aba/rda/ (Questions may be sent to: LC Policy and Standards Division, Email: LChelp4rda@loc.gov)
• LC Training modules for RDA: http://www.loc.gov/aba/rda/training_modules.html
• Library of Congress Train-the-Trainer Webcasts: http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/rda/trainthetrainer.html
• LC Documentataion for the RDA test
• LC Choices for the RDA Test
• General Information on the US Test of RDA
• RDA toolkit on Cataloger's Desktop
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RDA Presentations on JSC Web site: http://www.rda-jsc.org/rdapresentations.html

• Barbara B. Tillett and Judith A. Kuhagen's training on RDA at "Georgia Cataloging Summit," Aug. 9-10, 2011
• Judith A. Kuhagen. "RDA Overview," presentation at SLA, June 14, 2011
• Judith A. Kuhagen. "Serials and RDA: An Ongoing Relationship," preconference, St Louis, MO, June 1, 2011
• Barbara B. Tillet. "RDA Seminar," at University of Florence, Italy, May 30-1 June, 2011
• etc.
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Other

• NCSU Libraries RDA Training Documentation: https://staff.lib.ncsu.edu/confluence/display/MNC/RDA#RDA-NCSURDATrainingDocumentation
• University of Chicago Libraries RDA Training Documetation: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/staffweb/depts/cat/rda.html
• VTLS Inc. Sandbox:  http://www.vtls.com/services/rdasandbox