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RDA & OCLC

Glenn PattonDirector, WorldCat Quality Management

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• Since we last talked …

• What’s coming …

• Future policies

Today’s topics

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• Indexing changes• Entity attribute (en:) index (Bibliographic records)

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• Links from Connexion client & browser to the RDA Toolkit

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• RDA Workforms• Set a preference in the Connexion client or browser

• Record matching changes• Fully incorporating RDA changes

• Additional validation rules to insure correct coding

• Additional MARC format changes (MARC Update No. 13)

What’s coming …

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MARC format changes

Bibliographic

• 264 Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice

• 344 Sound Characteristics • 345 Projection Characteristics of

Moving Image • 346 Video Characteristics • 347 Digital File Characteristics • 377 Associated Language

• Additional subfields in field 340 and 383

Authority

• 368 Other Corporate Body Attributes

• 378 Fuller Form of Personal Name

• Additional subfields in field 377 and 384

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Policy in place during the US National RDA Test and the following interim period:

OCLC Policy Statement on RDA Cataloging in WorldCat for the U.S. Testing Period

http://www.oclc.org/us/en/rda/policy.htm

“OCLC will reconsider this policy during the remainder of 2011 and will seek comment from the OCLC membership on how widespread implementation could affect WorldCat before making policy decisions going forward.”

Future policies

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• Proposals for policies and actions will be made available for review and comment after ALA Midwinter

• Comments due by April 15, 2012

• Proposals attempt to balance the dual roles of WorldCat as a catalog and as a repository of bibliographic data

• Proposals keep in mind the work of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging

Policy review

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Questions?