Chinese version of RDA Registry published

The RDA Registry is updated on July 25, 2024. I can see the Chinese version uploaded along with other 17 languages. This is very important for the sharing of library cataloging records (data) in the World Wide Web age.

Chinese Version of IFLA LRM Published

The Chinese version of the IFLA LRM (IFLA Library Reference Model: a Conceptual Model for Bibliographic Information) was published on the IFLA website on December 5, 2020. It was translated by catalogers of the National Library of China in the past two years.

Since the publication of FRBR in 1998, there had been little attention from the Chinese library community until September 2002, when Barbara Tillett visited Beijing and introduced it to colleagues in China. During the middle of the first decade of the 21st century, there were quite a lot of articles on FRBR published in Chinese journals of library science, and there were also some experimental projects for the application of FRBR to Chinese library catalogs. The Chinese version of FRBR (jointly by librarians from Shanghai Jiao Tong University Library, the Shanghai Library, Peking University Library and the National Library of China) was finally released on the IFLA website in 2008.

With the adaptation of ISBD to FRBR, the conceptual model family has been paid more attention by Chinese library catalogers and scholars. FRAD (Functional Requirements for Authority Data) was translated into Chinese by Lu WANG and other colleagues from the National Library of China (NLC), and was published in January 2010. Then, FRSAD (Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data) was translated by Sha LIU from the Wuhan University, and was published in December 2013.

However, FRBRoo and LRM had received little attention from China before 2016, when Pat Riva gave a lecture with the title “IFLA Library Reference Model: Overview” in NLC, Beijing, China, October 21. About 120 librarians from NLC and other libraries in Beijing attended the lecture, and got latest information about the IFLA LRM. Then, more Chinese librarians began to keep up with the future development of FRBR/LRM.

Since the RDA Toolkit Restructure and Redesign (3R) Project has implemented the IFLA LRM, we think it important to have a Chinese version. Thus, six catalogers from NLC jointly completed the translation, and finalized it in May 2020. Much time was spent for the deliberation of the text and the understanding of the new terms, and the translation is also a process of comparison and learning of related standards, formats and rules.

We hope the Chinese version of the IFLA LRM will promote the understanding of international cataloging related activities in the Chinese library community. 

https://www.ifla.org/publications/node/11412

Chinese National Standard of ISSN Published

China Standard Serial Number, Part 2: ISSN (GB/T 9999.2-2018), The Chinese National Standard of ISSN, was just published in March 2018.
Since the Chinese National Standard China Standard Serial Numbering (GB/T 9999-2001, eqv ISO 3297:1998) was published in June 2002, the standard had not been revised for many years. In 2009, the China ISSN Center proposed to revised the standard, and the application was approved.
However, the drafting of the standard took much longer time than it was estimated. Finally, the revised standard was divided into two parts, with the first part for Chinese local management number (CN) and the second part for ISSN.
Based on the ISO 3297:2007, Information and Documentation -- International Standard Serial Number, the newly revised standard meets the needs for the ISSN numbers of electronic serials, and also clarifies the responsibilities of ISSN China Center.
As the director of the ISSN China Center, I began the revision of the standard in 2009, and I am glad to see the final result.

Diversity of Data: RDA in the international context

Diversity of Data: RDA in the international context

Thursday 23 August

National Library of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

About the event

This one-day conference is organised by the RDA Board and will be held on 23 August 2018 at the National Library of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur.

Who should attend?

The Conference will benefit both RDA users and non-users and will cover the latest developments in the RDA cataloguing standard, providing a forum for discussion, learning and sharing. There will be a focus on the potential of RDA for libraries in non-English speaking countries and information about the latest developments in the RDA standard and the Toolkit.

Content of the program

There will be sessions on the international uptake and implementation of RDA, with speakers from around the world highlighting different implementation experiences. Acknowledged experts in the RDA world will give an in-depth demonstration of the new RDA Toolkit and explore RDA in a multilingual world where cataloguing traditions and practices may vary from country to country. There will be presentations on features that support translations, RDA’s ability to accommodate local practices in a global context and its potential for use in a linked data environment

The program will feature speakers from around the world with the opportunity to meet and network with experienced RDA implementers.

Program

The full program will be available soon.

Pre-Registrations are invited

Registration details and final conference program will be confirmed soon. Reserve your place by leaving your details at http://www.rdatoolkit.org/form/rda-event-in-kl

  

Interim Conference program – final to be distributed soon

Diversity of Data: RDA in the International Context

Thursday 23 August

National Library of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

8.30-9.00 am	Registration opens at National Library of Malaysia, Level 1, Anjung Bestari, 232 Jalan Tun Razak, Kuala Lumpur
9.00	Conference Session 1 - RDA in the international context
9.00-9.15	Welcome on behalf of National Library of Malaysia Welcome on behalf of the RDA Board; housekeeping announcements Chris Oliver, University of Ottawa and incoming Chair, RDA Board
9.15-10.15	Tales from the field: RDA implementations around the globe Library leaders share their experiences, challenges and outcomes. Beacher Wiggins, Director of Bibliographic Access, Library of Congress, USA National Library of Malaysia, speaker to be confirmed Additional speakers to be confirmed
10.15-10.45	Implementing RDA in Oceania and Southeast Asia: results of a survey Monika Szunejko, Director, Libraries Australia, National Library of Australia
10.45-11.15	Morning tea including meeting the implementers
11.15-12.00	Building regional RDA organizations Overview of RDA governance - Amelia McKenzie, Assistant Director-General, National Library of Australia Taking the first steps: Latin America - Angela Quiroz, Library of Congress, Chile Additional speaker to be confirmed
12.00-12.30	Question and Answer session, facilitated by Chris  Oliver, incoming Chair, RDA Board The morning’s speakers are invited to join a Q & A panel session to answer questions from the audience
12.30-1.30pm	Lunch
1.30	Conference Session 2 - Accommodating diverse data
1.30-2.00	Toolkit demonstration - James Hennelly, Director ALA Digital Reference
2.00-2.30	Translations – Gordon Dunsire, Chair, RDA Steering Committee How does the new infrastructure of RDA facilitate translations? This presentation highlights the features that support translations and the tools available to benefit RDA communities.
2.30-3.00	Accommodating local cataloguing traditions in a global context – Gordon Dunsire, Ebe Kartus, Wider RDA Community Engagement Officer
3.00-3.30	Afternoon tea with opportunity to try out Toolkit
3.30—4.00	Looking to the future: cataloguing data in the linked data environment  - Ebe Kartus
4.00	Wrap-up and closing remarks (Amelia McKenzie, National Library of Australia and RDA Board member)

John Donald Byrum Passed Away

My condolences!

I remember that I met John twice when I just joined the IFLA Cataloguing Section 13 years ago. I read some of his articles about ISBDs, which helped me to be familiar with ISBDs.

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BYRUM JOHN DONALD BYRUM John Donald Byrum died on Friday, January 12, 2018. Mr. Byrum was born in 1940 to "Jack" and Helen Byrum, long-time residents of Wenatchee, Washington, where he was raised. A quiet and thoughtful man, he was known for his ability to lead people to action and for loyalty, both given and received. Those who reported to him readily acknowledged and expressed appreciation for his mentoring and for challenging them to excel in ways they had not imagined. As a high school student, Mr. Byrum won several debate and oration competitions at the state level and was elected treasurer of the National (Junior) Classical Languages League. He received the Emblem Club National Scholarship in 1958 and did so well in his studies that he was selected to deliver his high school class commencement address. Mr. Byrum graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard University in 1962 and received a master's degree from the Graduate School of Library Service, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey in 1966. He began his library career as a cataloger at Princeton University Library, where he was promoted to head cataloger in 1968. In 1976, he joined the Library of Congress where he served as a chief of various divisions, while overseeing several international cooperative cataloging efforts. As a forceful manager during his tenure at LC, he made an indelible mark on the Library's bibliographic control operations that had national and international impact. He retired in 2006. Active in both national and international professional associations, Mr. Byrum was a substantial contributor to the theory of bibliographic control, for which he gained national and international renown. While at Princeton and later at the Library of Congress, he was the representative of the American Library Association (ALA) to the Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR (Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules) and chair of the ALA Resources and Technical Services Division Catalog Code Revision Committee. He was a founding member of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Study Group on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records, which resulted in the publication, Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records. As chair of IFLA's International Standard for Bibliographic Description (ISBD) Review Group, Mr. Byrum led the continuing revision and maintenance of the family of ISBDs for the full range of materials in library collections. Additionally, Mr. Byrum published and spoke widely on topics related to bibliographic control. Mr. Byrum received many honors for his contributions to librarianship. In 1975, he was awarded the ALA Esther J. Piercy Award, given to an outstanding librarian with not more than ten years of professional experience. He received the ALA Margaret Mann Citation for outstanding professional achievement in cataloging in 1998. For his work both nationally and internationally, he received ALA's prestigious Melvil Dewey Medal and Citation in 2006 for creative professional achievement in library management, training, cataloging and classification, and the tools and techniques of librarianship. He is a member of Beta Phi Mu. While in "retirement," Mr. Byrum continued his love of learning by auditing courses at George Mason University and contributed to his local community through volunteer service to nursing homes and animal shelters. Mr. Byrum is survived by his 43-year partner, Billy Rivera, to whom he was married on October 20, 2017, and will be grieved by the many whose lives he touched. Services were previously held.

Published in The Washington Post from Jan. 18 to Jan. 20, 2018.

Source: JOHN BYRUM

National Library of China becomes National Institution Representative of RDA Board

Last week, I received a message from Simon Berney-Edwards, Director of Improvement and Development, CILIP, the library and information association, which is based in London. He told me that at the meeting of the RDA Board last week, the National Library of China was selected to be the National Institution Representative: Asia (To serve 2018-2020).
RDA is a continually evolving standard that aims to reflect the requirements of the description, cataloguing and metadata community. One of its original aims was to be applicable across cultures, sectors and perspectives.
RDA is a package of data elements, guidelines, and instructions for creating library and cultural heritage resource metadata that are well-formed according to international models for user-focused linked data applications.

The role of the representative is:

• To provide RDA Board with insight about the impact, challenges and opportunities from the perspective of a national institution that has implemented RDA.
• To provide any relevant feedback from other National Institutions in the region.
• To contribute to the development and delivery of the RDA Board strategic plan for the development of RDA.
• To contribute to the overall governance of the standard including oversight of strategy, delivery, finance and risks.

IFLA Library Reference Model (LRM) Published

IFLA LRM is a high-level conceptual reference model developed within an entity-relationship modelling framework. It is the consolidation of the separately developed IFLA conceptual models: FRBR, FRAD, FRSAD.
I am very glad to see my name in this document.
Please see the following site:
https://www.ifla.org/node/11576
To download the document, please go directly to:
https://www.ifla.org/files/assets/cataloguing/frbr-lrm/ifla-lrm-august-2017.pdf

Italian version of ISBD published online

Italian version of ISBD published online: http://www.iccu.sbn.it/opencms/export/sites/iccu/documenti/2012/ISBD_2012_trad_it_online.pdf

Web Page for ISSN Directors' Meeting opened

A special Web page for the ISSN Directors' Meeting to be held in Beijing in September opened today:
http://www.nlc.gov.cn/yjfw/issn/about.html

International Cataloguing Principles available in more languages

The Statement of International Cataloguing Principles is now available
in 17 languages on IFLANET:
http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/icp/

Multilingual ICP Statements to Be Published

The final version of the Statement of International Cataloguing Principles and its translations in major languages will be published on the IFLA site very soon at the following address:
http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/icp/
Before then, I put the Chinese translation on my personal website at the following address:
http://www.bengu.cn/homepage/library/ICP-2009_Chinese.pdf
to promote its distribution according the resolution of IME ICC (at the last page of the text).

Chinese translation of ICP and Glossary completed

Today, I submitted the Chinese versions of ICP (Statement of International Cataloguing Principles) and its accompaning Glossary. They are translated by:
LIN Ming, Peking University Library
WANG Shaoping, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Libraries
LIU Suqing, Peking University Library
I would like to express my sincere thanks to them for the work for the international cataloging community. This work is very important for the internationalization of Chinese library cataloging. I hope the Chinese versions will be released and published very soon.

Information Organization Standardization Seminar Held in Beijing

Today, the Seminar on Information Resource Organization and Its Standardization is held in a suburb of Beijing. With 15 speakers and 50 participants, the seminar is co-organized by Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC) and National Technical Committee for Information and Documentation Standardization (also under ISTIC). I gave a presentation about the recent developments of international library catataloging standardization and some hot issues in international library cataloging community.
The National Technical Committee for Information and Documentation Standardization is a Chinese counterpart of ISO TC46 and is responsible for the standardization of library and information community in China.

Statement of International Cataloguing Principles to be available for worldwide review soon

Yesterday, I received a message from Barbara Tillett and the attached documents from the series of IME ICC meetings. The final drafts of the Statement of International Cataloguing Principles and its attached Glossary are to be translated into working languages of the IME ICC meetings, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Spanish and Arabic, and will be posted on the IFLANET for worldwide review until June 30, 2008. I will do the translation of the cover page of the worldwide review, and I have asked Mr. WANG Shaoping, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Libraries, and his colleagues to do the translation of the Statement and the Glossary.

After the worldwide review, these documents will be submitted to the standing committees of the Cataloguing Section and the Bibliography Section of IFLA Division IV for approval, and will be then published by IFLA.

Metadata Resource Sharing among Publisher, Booksellers and Libraries

Today, Mr. YANG Wensheng, CEO of the Chinese Books in Print, visited National Library of China and discussed the possibility of cooperation between his company and cataloging librarians in NLC. Mr. Yang is responsible for some research projects related to standards in the publishing industry, such as ONIX application in China and a pre-publication bibliographic information standard. He is making efforts to realize metadata resource sharing among publishers, booksellers and library acquisitions and cataloging workflows.

Translations of ISBD on IFLANET

A new page on translations of ISBD (International Standard Bibliographic Description) Consolidated Edition was created today on IFLANET:

http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/pubs/isbd-trans.htm

where the Chinese version is the first to appear in the world.