RDA is the new cataloging standard that replaces AACR2. It is based on FRBR and focuses on user tasks like finding, identifying, selecting, and obtaining resources. RDA uses FRBR entities and relationships to organize descriptive information and focuses on online resources. It differs from AACR2 in areas like elements, vocabularies, transcription, and levels of description. While RDA supports metadata sharing and digital environments, concerns include costs of implementation and difficulty adapting the new standard. The future of RDA remains unclear as it is still being developed.

1. RDARDA
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Features of RDAFeatures of RDA
Presented byPresented by
Murchana Borah
Milisha D'Silva

2. OverviewOverviewOverviewOverview
● What is RDA?
● Development of RDA
● Involvements?
● What is FRBR?
● Features of RDA
● How RDA is different from AACR 2
● Pros & Cons
● Future

3. What is RDA?What is RDA?
RDA is
● Resource Description and Access
● The successor to AACR 2
● Based on FRBR (Functional Requirements for
Bibliographic Records), FRAD (Functional
Requirements for Authority Data)
● A Content standard
RDA is not
● A display standard
● A encoding standard

4. Development of RDADevelopment of RDADevelopment of RDADevelopment of RDA
 1997 - The International Conference on the Principles and
Future Development of AACR held in Toronto,
Canada.
 1998 - FRBR published by IFLA (International Federation of
Library Association)
 2002 - Work began on AACR 2
 2004 - AACR 3
 2005 - Name changed to RDA
 2008 - Full draft of RDA was available
 2010 - Released of RDA Toolkit
 2010 >> Testing of RDA
 2012 - Announcement made by LC for implementation:
March 31, 2013

6. InvolvementsInvolvementsInvolvementsInvolvements
The Joint Steering Committee
The Co-Publishers Board
● American Library Association(ALA)
● Canadian Committee on Cataloguing
(CCC)
● Chartered Institute of Library and
Information Professionals (CILIP)

7. Functional Requirements for
Bibliographic Records
FRBRFRBR
Work
Expression
Manifestation
Item
Work
Expression
Manifestation
Item
Person
Corporate Body
Person
Corporate Body
Concept
Object
Event
Place
Concept
Object
Event
Place

9. Work : “A distict intellectual and artistic creation”
Example: The sound and the fury, by William Faulkner
Work : “A distict intellectual and artistic creation”
Example: The sound and the fury, by William Faulkner
Manifestation : “The physical embodiment of the expression of a work”
Example: The sound and the fury, by William Faulkner. London,
Vintage, 1995. ISBN: 0099475014
Manifestation : “The physical embodiment of the expression of a work”
Example: The sound and the fury, by William Faulkner. London,
Vintage, 1995. ISBN: 0099475014
Item : “a single examplar of a manifestation”
Example: The sound and the fury, by William Faulkner. London:
Vintage, 1995. ISBN: 0099475014. UIU Undergrad.,call #:
PS3511.A86 S71995
Item : “a single examplar of a manifestation”
Example: The sound and the fury, by William Faulkner. London:
Vintage, 1995. ISBN: 0099475014. UIU Undergrad.,call #:
PS3511.A86 S71995
Expression : “the intellectual and artistic realization of the work”
Examples: The sound and the fury by Faulkner (text)
Expression : “the intellectual and artistic realization of the work”
Examples: The sound and the fury by Faulkner (text)

10. User TasksUser TasksUser TasksUser Tasks
● find—i.e., to find resources that correspond to
the user’s stated search criteria
● identify—i.e., to confirm that the resource
described corresponds to the resource sought, or
to distinguish between two or more resources
with similar characteristics
● select—i.e., to select a resource that is
appropriate to the user’s needs
● obtain—i.e., to acquire or access the resource
described.

11. FeaturesFeaturesFeaturesFeatures
● User needs/User tasks (find, identify, select and obtain)
● FRBR conceptual model of entity-relationship.
● Organized by FRBR entities and relationships.
● 10 sections summed up in 2 groups: attributes and
Relationship
● Focused on on-line resource.
● RDA Elements
Core elements: Title proper (245, $a) RDA/LC,
Publication date (260, $c) RDA/LC,
Core if element:Copyright date (260, $c) RDA
● Vocabularies in RDA
Controlled Vocabularies: Closed (a few) and
Open (most)

12. To be continued...To be continued...
AACR 2AACR 2 RDARDA
● Heading
● see reference
● see also reference
● GMD
● authorised access
points
● variant access point
● authorized access
point for related
entity
● media type +
carrier type +
content type +

13. ● Mode of issuance and type of description: what I am
cataloging?
- Mode of issuance
Single unit,
Multi-part monograph,
Serial,
Integrating resource
- Type of description
Comprehensive,
Analytical
Hierarchical
● The General Material Designation(GMD) replaced with:
- Content type (text, musical notation, cartography, etc.)
- Carrier type (audio-cassette, cartridge, slides, etc.)
- Media type ( the intermediation device)

14. Structure ● AACR2 is organized by classes of materials
● RDA has overarching principles that are
applicable to all materials
● AACR2
Part I – Description
Part II – Headings, Uniform Titles, and References
● RDA
Recording attributes
Recording relationships
Categorization of
resources
● AACR2 has GMDs
● RDA has media type, carrier type, and content
type
Level of
description
● AACR2 has first, second, and third levels of
description
● RDA has core elements and other elements
Differences from AACR2Differences from AACR2

15. Transcription
● Abbreviation
● AACR2: abbreviations used in some transcribed
elements (2nd
ed.)
● RDA: abbreviations in transcribed elements
permitted only if abbreviations appear on the
source (Second edition)
Statement of
Responsibility
● AACR2 ­ Rule of three
● RDA – transcribe statement of responsibility as
found, regardless of number
Publication
information
● AACR2 – give the first named place and the first
place in the country of the cataloging agency
●
RDA – give the first named place, regardless of
country
Sources of
information
● AACR2 specifies a chief source of information for
each class of material
● RDA divides resources into three categories: one or
more pages, leaves, sheets, or cards; moving
images; other resources
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16. Pros & ConsPros & ConsPros & ConsPros & Cons
●
● A cataloging standrd for
the digital environment
● A framework what
describes all the resources
● User focused
● Support metadata sharing
among metadata
communities.
● New uses of library online
services
● Others claims RDA
doesn't go far enough.
● Some claims RDA goes
too far.
● Concern about learning
and training more
● RDA is difficult to adapt
● Costly

17. ● RDA is an unfinished standard
RDA Toolkit is designed to be a
living document
● The future direction of RDA is unclear