This session is from the COMO 2013 Preconference presented by Beth Thornton, University of Georgia. The full PPT is provided here on SlideShare; to follow along with the audio, visit this link: https://valdosta.sharestream.net/ssdcms/i.do?u=7cc2f4ba24014d3

1. Beth Thornton
Head, Serials Cataloging, University of Georgia
bethj@uga.edu
Georgia COMO
October 9, 2013
Bringing it All Together: RDA from Experience

2. AACR (1967)
Paris Principles (1961)
ISBD (1969)
Earlier codes

3. • Functional Requirements for
Bibliographic Records (FRBR) 1998
• Functional Requirements for Authority
Data (FRAD) 2009
• Functional Requirements for Subject
Authority Data (FRSAD) 2010
• Statement of International Cataloguing
Principles (ICP) 2009

4. e e e
u u u rrrrrr
or, if you prefer.....

5.  Entities
 Attributes
 Relationships

6. Group 1 – products of intellectual or
artistic endeavor
Group 2 – responsible for the
content, production or
custodianship of Group 1entities
Group 3 – subjects of Group 1
entities
•Group 1 and group 2 entities too!

7. 1. Work, expression, manifestation, item
(WEMI)
2. Person, corporate body
3. Concept, object, event, place

8. Work
A distinct intellectual or artistic creation
Expression
Intellectual or artistic realization of a work
Manifestation
Physical embodiment of an expression of a work
Item
Single exemplar of a manifestation
Group 1 entities

9. Photo: http://www.vivaldi.org/photo-gallery/
Work

10. Expression

11. Manifestation

12. Item

13. The Novel
Original Text Translation
Paper PDF
Copy 1
WORK
EXPRESSION
MANIFESTATION
ITEM
Paper
Copy 1 Copy 2

14. Work
A distinct intellectual or artistic creation
Choderos Laclos’ Les Liaisons dangereuses
1794
Play poem choral work
Attributes

15. Expression
Intellectual or artistic realization of a work
Liaisons dangereuses. $l English
Other distinguishing characteristics:
Illustrated
“Director’s cut”
Content type: text, spoken word, still
image
Attributes

16. Manifestation
Physical embodiment of an expression of a work
Attributes

17. Item
Single exemplar of a manifestation
The copy of Dangerous Liaisons,
published by Penguin, in your library’s
collection.
The barcode is an attribute of that
item.
Attributes

18. Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind.
The autographed copy of Gone With the Wind
in your library’s special collections
A French translation of Gone With the Wind.
The paperback Gone With the Wind published
in New York by MacMillian in 1961.

20.  Work to Work
◦ successor, supplement, complement, summarization,
adaptation, transformation, imitation
 Expression to Expression
◦ abridgement, revision, translation, arrangement
 Manifestation to Manifestation
◦ reproduction (reproduction, reprint, facsimile, etc.)
◦ alternate (format, simultaneously released ed.)
 Whole / Part Relationships
◦ volume of a multivolume manifestation;
aggregate/component
 Part / Part Relationships
◦ sequential, accompanying, companion

21. In: Relationships in the Organization of Knowledge.
Carol Bean and Rebecca Green, eds., Kluwer, 2001 (ISBN: 07923-
68134)
From Barbara Tillett’s presentation
“FRBR Model”, Feb. 2, 2004

22. Whew!