Pat Riva

Not a thesis supervisor

Associate University Librarian, Collection Services, Concordia University Library

Contact information

Email:

pat.riva@concordia.ca

ORCID:

0000-0001-6024-4320

Biography

Research Interests

◦ Conceptual models and ontologies

◦ Semantic web and library linked data

◦ Knowledge organization systems

◦ Standards development and translation

◦ Multilingual information systems

Education

BA (Honours), Linguistics, Concordia, 1991
MLIS, McGill, 1986
BSc (Honours), Mathematics, Queen’s, 1984

Publications

Monograph

The IFLA Library Reference Model : lectio magistralis in library science = Il modello concettuale IFLA Library Reference Model : lectio magistralis in biblioteconomia. Fiesole (Firenze), Italy : Casalini Libri, 2018. ISBN 978-88-7656-024-8 (print), ISBN 978-88-7656-025-5 (ebook). 73 pp. (Letture magistrali in biblioteconomia ;11). DOI (English text) 10.1400/256779; DOI (Italian text) 10.1400/256781.

Edited Monograph

The FRBR Family of Conceptual Models : Towards a Linked Bibliographic Future. Edited by Richard P. Smiraglia, Pat Riva & Maja Žumer. London : New York : Routledge, 2013. ISBN 978-0-415-64104-3. 429 pp. (Monograph edition of v.50, no.5/7 (2012) of Cataloging & Classification Quarterly)

Book Chapters

On the continued importance of National Bibliography. In: Guardando oltre i confini : partire dalla tradizione per costruire il futuro delle biblioteche : studi e testimonianze per i 70 anni di Mauro Guerrini, a cura di Giovanni Bergamin e Tiziana Possemato. Roma : Associazione italiana biblioteche, 2023. P. 315-322. ISBN 978-88-7812-380-9.

Multilingualism in information retrieval systems – the next challenge. In: Mirna Willer: Festschrift, edited by Tinka Katić and Nives Tomašević. Zadar : MorePress, University of Zadar, 2020. P.135-151. ISBN 978-953-331-274-3 (print), ISBN 978-953-331-275-0 (ebook).

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Aalberg, Trond, Pat Riva, & Maja Žumer. Presenting compounds to end users in search results. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly (theme issue User Studies in Bibliographic Data and Systems: Insights and Applications), v.62, no.3/4 (2024), p.349-387.

Jensen, Karen & Pat Riva. Growth of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging in Canada. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly (theme issue Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC): 25 Years Strong and Growing!), v.58, no.3/4 (2020), p.303-316.

On the New Conceptual Model of the Bibliographic Universe : the FRBR Library Reference Model (Il nuovo modello concettuale dell’universo bibliografico: FRBR Library Reference Model). AIB studi, vol.56, n.2 (maggio/agosto 2016), p.265-275.

Arsenault, Clément, Daniel Paradis & Pat Riva. Translating RDA into French. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly (theme issue RDA around the World), v.52, no.6/7 (2014), p.704-722.

Cross, Emma, Sue Andrews, Trina Grover, Chris Oliver & Pat Riva. In the Company of my Peers : Implementation of RDA in Canada. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly (theme issue RDA around the World), v.52, no.6/7 (2014), p.747-774.

Doerr, Martin, Pat Riva & Maja Žumer. FRBR Entities : Identity and Identification. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly (theme issue The FRBR Family of Conceptual Models), v.50, no.5/7 (2012), p.517-541.

Riva, Pat & Chris Oliver. Evaluation of RDA as an Implementation of FRBR and FRAD. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly (theme issue The FRBR Family of Conceptual Models), v.50, no.5/7 (2012), p.564-586.

Mapping MARC 21 Linking Entry Fields to FRBR and Tillett’s Taxonomy of Bibliographic Relationships. Library Resources & Technical Services, v.48, no.2 (April 2004), p.130-143.

Beheshti, Jamshid, Andrew Large & Pat Riva. Cost Savings to Canadian University and Large Urban Public Libraries from their Use of National Library of Canada MARC Records. Library Resources & Technical Services, v.47, no.2 (April 2003), p.44-57.

Conference Proceedings

“The multilingual challenge in bibliographic description and access” refereed paper, in JLIS.it special issue Bibliographic Control in the Digital Ecosystem, vol.13, no.1 (January 2022), p.86-98.
DOI: 10.4403/jlis.it-12737 (Originally presented at Conference BC2021, February 8-12, 2021)

Žumer, Maja & Pat Riva. “IFLA LRM – Finally Here” refereed project report, in Advancing Metadata Practice : Quality, Openness, Interoperability : 2017 Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, 26-29 October 2017. DCMI, 2017, p.13-23. (Originally presented at DC-2017, Washington, DC, by Maja Žumer)

Arsenault, Clément, Daniel Paradis & Pat Riva. “The Translation of a Standard : Translating and Adapting RDA into French” refereed paper, in Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS = Actes du congrès annuel de l'ACSI for 2014. (Originally presented at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, May 28-30, 2014 by Clément Arsenault)

“FRBR Review Group Initiatives and the World of Linked Data (Le iniziative del FRBR Review Group e il mondo Linked data)”, in JLIS.it special issue Seminar Global Interoperability and Linked Data in Libraries, vol.4, no.1 (January 2013), p.105-117. DOI: 10.4403/jlis.it-5482 (Originally presented at the Università degli studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy, June 18-19, 2012)

Bélair, Jo-Anne & Pat Riva. “Le répertoire des vedettes-matières de l'Université Laval : une histoire de coopération inter-institutionnelle” refereed paper, in Francophonies et bibliothèques : actes du premier congrès de l'Association internationale francophone des bibliothécaires et documentalistes et satellite IFLA, Montréal, 3-6 août 2008. Montréal : AIFBD, 2009, p.209-214.

“Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) and its Application to Resource Discovery” invited plenary address, in INTEGRAR : 2o Congresso Internacional de Arquivos, Bibliotecas, Centros de Documentação e Museus, realizado no período de 25 a 29 de junho de 2006, São Paulo, SP, Brasil : anais. São Paulo : FEBAB, 2006, p.45-50.

Journal Articles

LRMoo, the essentials. IFLA Metadata Newsletter, v.10, no.1 (June 2024), p.26-31.

National Bibliographies revealed in the National Bibliographic Register. IFLA Metadata Newsletter, v.7, no.2 (December 2021), p.6-17.

The National Bibliographic Register, putting national bibliographies in context. IFLA Metadata Newsletter, v.7, no.1 (June 2021), p.5-12.

Paradis, Daniel & Pat Riva. RDA au Québec a fêté ses 4 ans. Arabesques (revue trimestrielle de l’Agence bibliographique de l’enseignement supérieur (Abes)), no 87 (octobre–novembre–décembre 2017), p.29.

Bellemare, Nathalie & Pat Riva. Les FRBR pour les nuls. Argus, vol.38, no 2 (automne 2009), p.24-26.

Riva, Pat & Nathalie Bellemare. La norme RDA : outil mondial et intégration locale. Argus, vol.38, no 1 (printemps 2009), p.23-26.

Riva, Pat, Martin Doerr & Maja Žumer. FRBRoo : Enabling a Common View of Information from Memory Institutions. International Cataloguing & Bibliographic Control, v.38, no.2 (April/June 2009), p.30-34.

Riva, Pat & Anders Cato. Modifications to the FRBR Entity 'Expression'. International Cataloguing & Bibliographic Control, v.37, no.1 (January/March 2008), p.2&17.

Introducing the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records and Related IFLA Developments. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, v.33, no.6 (Aug./Sept. 2007), p.7-11.

Defining the Boundaries : FRBR, AACR and the Serial. Serials Librarian, v.45, no.3 (2003), p.15-21.

Presentations

Conference Papers

Riva, Pat, Maja Žumer & Trond Aalberg. LRMoo, navigating standards development processes in two communities. Advisory Committee on Standards Open Program International Standards in the Digital Information Landscape: the Development and Consultation Process, World Library and Information Congress, 88th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, August 21-25, 2023.

UBC, background and future perspectives. Invited keynote, IFLA Bibliography, Cataloguing, and Subject Analysis & Access sections joint satellite meeting Universal Bibliographic Control at the crossroads: the challenges of unifying IFLA bibliographic standards, Royal Library of Belgium (KBR), Brussels, Belgium, August 18-19, 2023.

Riva, Pat, Maja Žumer & Trond Aalberg. LRMoo, a high-level model in an object-oriented framework. Advisory Committee on Standards Open Program International Standards for a Digital World, World Library and Information Congress, 87th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, Dublin, Ireland, July 25-29, 2022.

Insights from IFLA’s Register of National Bibliographies. National Libraries Now! (online), September 16-17, 2021.

Riva, Pat & Maja Žumer. FRBRoo, the IFLA Library Reference Model, and now LRMoo : a circle of development. Committee on Standards Open Program Impact of recently approved IFLA standards, World Library and Information Congress, 84th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 24-30, 2018.

Riva, Pat & Maja Žumer. The IFLA Library Reference Model, a step toward the Semantic Web. Committee on Standards Open Program The Use of IFLA Standards in the Linked Data Environment : Strategies, Applications and Success Stories, World Library and Information Congress, 83rd IFLA General Conference and Assembly, Wroclaw, Poland, August 19-24, 2017.

Building RDA using the FRBR Library Reference Model. Invited paper, IFLA Satellite Meeting RDA in the Wider World, Dublin, Ohio, August 11, 2016.

Riva, Pat & Maja Žumer. Introducing the FRBR Library Reference Model. Cataloguing Section Open Program Modeling Bibliographic Information for a Web of Data : Challenges and Achievements, World Library and Information Congress, 81st IFLA General Conference and Assembly, Cape Town, South Africa, August 15-21, 2015.

Riva, Pat & Mirna Willer. Declaring IFLA ISBD and FRBR Family of Conceptual Models in RDF. Invited paper, JSC/DCMI Seminar Five Years On, British Library, London, United Kingdom, April 27, 2012.

Invited Presentations

LRM and RDA. Invited presentation, in part 1 of Take a bite of the Official RDA Toolkit, a series of three 30 minute webinars organised by the Cataloguing & Technical Services section of ABQLA, (online), April 9, 2025.

The transition to the IFLA Library Reference Model (IFLA LRM). Invited presentation, panel Paradigm shift in cataloging and problems in its implementation, 8th Seminar of the Network of Libraries of the Judicial Branch of the Federation (México) Libraries on the road to linked data, (online), October 24-25, 2023.

Main features of the LRMoo conceptual model. Invited plenary (Conferencia Magistral), GLAM Prospective and Challenges (Pensar GLAM: los retos de la información en Galerías, Bibliotecas, Archivos y Museos), academic preconference activity to the 2023 CIDOC annual conference Fronteras del conocimiento : Museos, documentación y datos enlazados, National Library of Mexico (Biblioteca Nacional de México), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), (hybrid event, online presentation), August 31, 2023.

IFLA LRM, the conceptual base for RDA. Invited plenary, 4to Coloquio sobre RDA en América Latina y el Caribe Innovaciones en la RDA e implicancias para su implementación en las bibliotecas de América Latina y el Caribe, Peru (online), October 27-29, 2021.

Koskas, Mathilde & Pat Riva. A perspective on national bibliographies from the IFLA Bibliography section. Invited presentation, Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) Bibliographical Data Working Group workshop National Bibliographies and Catalogs: Curation and Research, (online), September 30, 2021.

The WEMI entities in the IFLA Library Reference Model. Invited presentation, Bibliographic Conceptual Models Interest Group session, American Library Association Annual Conference, Washington, DC, June 20-24, 2019.

Information retrieval in a bilingual context : a perspective from library science. Invited presentation, Diverse Perspectives on Bilingualism, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, October 12, 2018.

Žumer, Maja & Pat Riva. IFLA LRM : some accents. Invited keynote, IFLA Metadata Reports session, World Library and Information Congress, 83rd IFLA General Conference and Assembly, Wroclaw, Poland, August 19-24, 2017.

Resource Discovery in the Internet Age. Invited keynote, International (Zhejiang) Forum on Public Digital Culture, Hangzhou, China, October 17-19, 2016.

The next stage in our bibliographic models : FRBR-LRM/Prochaine évolution de nos modèles bibliographiques : FRBR-LRM. Invited presentation, Thematic Seminar on Resource Description and Access/Séminaire thématique sur Ressources : description et accès, Library and Archives Canada, Gatineau, Quebec, April 28, 2016.

Implementation and Internationalization of RDA. Invited colloquium lecture, University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee, School of Information Studies, Knowledge Organization Research Group, March 26, 2015.

Données liées et ontologies égalent synergie. Invited presentation, 7e symposium du Groupe interdisciplinaire de recherche en archivistique (GIRA) Les archives et le Web, 6e Congrès des milieux documentaires, Montreal, Quebec, December 1, 2014.

Canada : One Country, Two NBA’s, Two Approaches. Invited presentation, IFLA Bibliography and Cataloguing Sections Satellite Meeting National Bibliography in the Digital Age, Warsaw, Poland, August 9, 2012. (recording)

Bourdon, Françoise & Pat Riva. French Translation of RDA : Update on the Project. Invited presentation, IFLA Cataloguing Section Satellite Meeting RDA : Foundations, Changes, and Implementation, San Juan, Puerto Rico, August 12, 2011.

FRBR and FRAD : Foundations for RDA. Invited presentation, Canadian Association of Law Libraries/Association canadienne des bibliothèques de droit (CALL/ACBD) 46th Annual Conference, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, May 25-28, 2008.

Un aperçu du modèle FRBR et de ses applications. Invited keynote, Journée RERO (Réseau des bibliothèques de Suisse occidentale), Lausanne, Switzerland, May 24, 2007.

FRBR, Understanding Current Developments. Invited keynote, Northern California Technical Processes Group (NCTPG) Annual Meeting and Program Going Further with FRBR, San Francisco, California, April 27, 2007.

FRBR and MARC 21 Linking Fields. Invited presentation, ALCTS Cataloging & Classification Section Research Discussion Group, American Library Association Mid-Winter Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, January 14-17, 2005.

Teaching Activities

Continuing professional education workshops

“Le modèle IFLA LRM, base conceptuelle de RDA” 2.5hr webinar organised by the Fédération des milieux documentaires, September 23, 2022.

“NBR, National Bibliographic Register : Registro delle Bibliografie nazionali dell’IFLA” 1hr lectio, Università degli studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy, November 10, 2021.

“The IFLA Library Reference Model, a conceptual model for bibliographic information : continuity and change. Part 1: User tasks and entities. Part 2: Attributes and relationships” series of two 1hr webinars organised by the Cataloguing & Technical Services section of ABQLA and offered through EI, Education Institute, January 14 & 28, 2020.

“The IFLA Library Reference Model, a conceptual model for bibliographic information : continuity and change” half-day workshop organised by the Cataloguing & Technical Services section of ABQLA, Montréal, Quebec, December 6, 2019.

“Il modello concettuale IFLA Library Reference Model : continuità e novità” lectio magistralis, Università di Roma – La Sapienza, Rome, Italy, March 8, 2018. Organized by the Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico (ICCU) and the department of Archivistica e Biblioteconomia in the Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia of the Università di Roma – La Sapienza.

“IFLA Library Reference Model Overview” half-day workshop, National Library of China, Beijing, China, October 21, 2016.

“FRBRoo in Context” full-day workshop, Shanghai Library, Shanghai, China, October 14, 2016.

“Autorités RDA et nouvelles zones MARC 21” half-day workshop for technical services staff in Québec university libraries, Montréal, Quebec (and by videoconference), February 8 & June 12, 2014. Co-taught with Lucie Pellerin (BAnQ).

“RDA, Ressources : description et accès” full-day or 2-day workshops in partnership with ASTED, offered throughout Québec and in Moncton, NB, March 15, 2013 to November 13-14, 2014, series of 12 sessions (full-day version) plus 17 sessions (2-day version). Co-taught 7 and 11 sessions respectively.

“Étapes préparatoires avant l’implantation RDA” half-day workshop in partnership with ASTED, offered in Montréal, November 23 & December 6, 2012, and Québec City, November 26, 2012. Co-taught with Danielle Poirier (BAnQ).

“RDA, vers de nouveaux horizons” full-day workshop organised by ASTED, Montréal, April 29, 2011.

“Journée d’information et d’échanges RDA” full-day workshop organised by CRÉPUQ for technical services staff in Québec university libraries, offered in Québec City, November 16 (French), Montréal, November 17 (English) & 18 (French), 2010. Co-taught with: Chris Oliver (McGill University), Laura May (Library and Archives Canada), Daniel Paradis (Concordia University).
Prepared and presented the sections:
“Les nouveaux Principes internationaux de catalogage et RDA / The IFLA Statement of International Cataloguing Principles and RDA”
“Les concepts fondamentaux, Partie 3, Relations / Conceptual Foundations of RDA, Part 3, Focus on Relationships”

“The FRBR and FRAD Conceptual Models” and “Les modèles conceptuels FRBR et FRAD” 2hr in-service training (English and French) at Library and Archives Canada, Gatineau, Quebec, June 12, 2008.

“FRBR” full-day post-conference workshop at INTEGRAR, 2o Congresso Internacional de Arquivos, Bibliotecas, Centros de Documentação e Museus, São Paulo, Brazil, June 30, 2006.

Bibliographic Standards

IFLA Bibliographic Conceptual Models Review Group

IFLA Library Reference Model : a conceptual model for bibliographic information. Pat Riva, Patrick Le Boeuf, and Maja Žumer. Endorsed by the IFLA Professional Committee, August 2017. As amended and corrected through December 2017. 101 pp.

Transition Mappings : User Tasks, Entities, Attributes, and Relationships in FRBR, FRAD, and FRSAD mapped to their equivalents in the IFLA Library Reference Model. August 2017. 84 pp.

International Working Group on FRBR and CIDOC CRM Harmonisation

FRBR: object-oriented definition and mapping to FRBR(ER), FRAD and FRSAD, ver. 2.4, November 2015. 230 pp.

Editors: Chryssoula Bekiari, Martin Doerr, Patrick Le Boeuf, Pat Riva

Standards Committees

Canadian Committee on Cataloguing (CCC), 2009-

Canadian Committee on MARC / Canadian Committee on Metadata Exchange (CCM), chair, 1996-

Dewey Decimal Classification Editorial Policy Committee (EPC), 2012-2015

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). Advisory Committee on Standards, 2021-2025

IFLA Bibliography Section, standing committee member, 2013-2021

IFLA Cataloguing Section, standing committee member, 2005-2013

IFLA FRBR Review Group, chair, 2005-2013

LRMoo Working Group, chair, 2017-

Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC). Policy Committee, 2016-2019