The final day of the 2011 meeting of the Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA began with presentations by Gordon Dunsire about two areas of interest to both the JSC and the ISBD Review Group.
The first issue -- see 6JSC/Chair/5 -- concerned mapping ISBD Area 0 terms and RDA Carrier Type and Content Type terms to the base categories in the RDA/ONIX Framework for Resource Categorization (ROF). Mapping both ISBD and RDA vocabularies to the ROF allows specification of the relationship between the ISBD and RDA terms. Both groups agreed that this approach should be followed.
The second issue -- see 6JSC/Chair/4 -- concerned the mapping of the ISBD and RDA elements. Again both groups agreed that this should be done. This will involve examining the definitions of the elements in each standard to determine whether they are equivalent or whether one is a subproperty of the other. The revision of the ISBD specifications in Appendix D of RDA, which the ISBD Review Group yesterday had agreed to undertake, will be treated as a first approximation of the mapping specifications and will serve as the basis for a more rigorous analysis that will be needed before the actual mapping can be done.
In both cases, the mappings will eventually be encoded in RDF/SKOS format in the Open Metadata Registry -- where the elements for both ISBD and RDA are registered.
The rest of the meeting took place in executive session. Actions included the following:
Deirdre Kiorgaard, representative of the Australian Committee on Cataloguing, ended her term as a member of JSC; Kevin Marsh (also in attendance this week) will be the new ACOC representative. Alan Danskin ended his term as chair of the JSC, but will continue as the representative of the British Library; Thurston Young ended his term as JSC Secretary.
The new Chair of the JSC will be Barbara Tillett of the Library of Congress; Judy Kuhagen will serve as the JSC Secretary.
Tomorrow is Guy Fawkes Day -- google it if you don't know what that is -- which is perhaps a fitting ending for a JSC meetings.
Cheers from Glasgow!
The first issue -- see 6JSC/Chair/5 -- concerned mapping ISBD Area 0 terms and RDA Carrier Type and Content Type terms to the base categories in the RDA/ONIX Framework for Resource Categorization (ROF). Mapping both ISBD and RDA vocabularies to the ROF allows specification of the relationship between the ISBD and RDA terms. Both groups agreed that this approach should be followed.
The second issue -- see 6JSC/Chair/4 -- concerned the mapping of the ISBD and RDA elements. Again both groups agreed that this should be done. This will involve examining the definitions of the elements in each standard to determine whether they are equivalent or whether one is a subproperty of the other. The revision of the ISBD specifications in Appendix D of RDA, which the ISBD Review Group yesterday had agreed to undertake, will be treated as a first approximation of the mapping specifications and will serve as the basis for a more rigorous analysis that will be needed before the actual mapping can be done.
In both cases, the mappings will eventually be encoded in RDF/SKOS format in the Open Metadata Registry -- where the elements for both ISBD and RDA are registered.
The rest of the meeting took place in executive session. Actions included the following:
- The JSC approved terms of reference for a new Examples Group and discussed details about forming the group.
- The JSC updated its document tracking progress towards implementing the recommendations of the US RDA Test Coordinating Committee; the updated tracking document will be posted shortly.
- The JSC confirmed the outcomes of the meeting and indicated what actions to include in the summary Outcomes report, which should be posted in a few weeks.
Deirdre Kiorgaard, representative of the Australian Committee on Cataloguing, ended her term as a member of JSC; Kevin Marsh (also in attendance this week) will be the new ACOC representative. Alan Danskin ended his term as chair of the JSC, but will continue as the representative of the British Library; Thurston Young ended his term as JSC Secretary.
The new Chair of the JSC will be Barbara Tillett of the Library of Congress; Judy Kuhagen will serve as the JSC Secretary.
Tomorrow is Guy Fawkes Day -- google it if you don't know what that is -- which is perhaps a fitting ending for a JSC meetings.
Cheers from Glasgow!