All,
A significant amount of progress has been made on the RDA vocabularies
project. All of this should be consider "alpha" and details will change
as we begin to tie different parts of the project together. Here's where
we are at this point:
-- The first pass at an RDA vocabulary (properties only; subproperties
will be added later) has been created in a beta version of the NSDL
Registry. This should become publicly available shortly and the link
will be posted here when it's available. This set is based on the table
of properties [1] that were derived from the RDA Elements document [2].
-- We now have both cataloger, user, and developer scenarios on the wiki
[3], but we still need more! Please contribute by posting here or
sending to kcoyle at kcoyle.net. We need both scenarios that stretch the
envelope as well as the more mundane ones that cover common tasks.
-- Cataloger scenarios are being generated as RDF triples as a way of
testing whether the vocabulary, as defined, is sufficient to render the
scenario. Other scenarios will also be tested in this way. This work is
just beginning so you will see links appear from the scenarios to the
test RDF. [7]
-- Note that the FRBR entities have been entered into the NSDL metadata
registry sandbox [4] along with the FRBR relationships [5] and the FRBR
user tasks [6]. These will be incorporated into the rendering of the
scenarios as appropriate. This work is also linked off of the project
wiki [3].
Some next steps:
-- Identify a few of the controlled lists ("value vocabularies") in our
first pass properties and register those. This will allow us to
experiment further with scenarios.
-- The "definitions" currently in the first pass list [1] came from RDA
scope notes. The RDA definitions (or other definitions) need to be
substituted for them.
In case I missed anything, I hope that others will chime in.
kc
[1] Properties table
http://docs.google.com/View?revision=_latest&docid=dhpg2gtj_54fgnz8rfs&hl=en
[2] RDA Element Analysis
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/jsc/docs/5rda-elementanalysisrev.pdf
[3] Wiki:
http://dublincore.org/dcmirdataskgroup/
[4] FRBR entities
http://sandbox.metadataregistry.org/vocabulary/show/id/49.html
[5] FRBR Relationships
http://sandbox.metadataregistry.org/vocabulary/show/id/90.html
[6] FRBR User Tasks
http://sandbox.metadataregistry.org/vocabulary/show/id/69.html
[7] Rendering of first scenario in triples
http://dublincore.org/dcmirdataskgroup/Scenarios_2f1
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