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Record W4382518509 · doi:10.29085/9781783306305.008

RDA: Some Basics

2023· other· en· W4382518509 on OpenAlex

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Typeother
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicLibrary Science and Information Systems
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSteering committeeObsolescenceLibrary scienceJoint (building)Computer scienceResource (disambiguation)Operations researchWorld Wide WebEngineering managementEngineeringBusiness

Abstract

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RDA, Resource Description and Access , is a set of guidelines developed by the Committee of Principals for AACR, the institution that had promoted, updated and published the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules 2nd Edition (AACR2). In 2004, the revision of the Anglo-American Rules began at the urging of the Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR; the Joint Steering Committee had already tried to assess possible developments of the model in 1997 at a meeting held in Toronto among the world's leading cataloguing experts. However, in 2005, after realising the obsolescence of AACR2, it was decided to take a completely different approach; the draft of the first part of RDA was published at the end of that year. Over the next two years other parts of the standard were published and in 2008 the first complete draft of the new revised text was prepared, delivered in June 2009. It was published in a loose-leaf volume and in an online version called RDA Toolkit in June 2010. On 6 November 2015 a new structure for the governance of RDA was established: the RDA Steering Committee (RSC), born from the merger of the Joint Steering Committee for the Development of RDA (JSC) and the Committee of Principals (COP). The new organisation, responsible for RDA projects and the publication of its updates, is composed of representatives from the Library of Congress, the British Library, Library and Archives Canada, the National Library of Australia, the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Since 31 March 2013 RDA has been adopted by the Library of Congress and many other American, Australian and European libraries. There have also been different translations of the standard into Catalan, Finnish, French, German, Italian (in the process of being updated), Norwegian and Spanish and many more are in progress. RDA incorporates FRBR, FRAD, ICP and now IFLA LRM. RDA presents itself as the international standard for description and access to resources designed for the digital world. It goes beyond previous cataloguing codes as it is no longer presented as a set of standards, but rather as guidelines, continuously developed and updated instructions allowing for greater flexibility of use. RDA constitutes a content standard, not a visualisation standard. This implies a clear separation between the instructions dealing with content – with data – and those dealing with its representation.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.151
Threshold uncertainty score0.982

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.002
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.019

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.019
GPT teacher head0.216
Teacher spread0.198 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

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