RDA Flashcards
RDA
Research Description and Access
Definition
- The new standard for descriptive cataloguing, designed primarily for the digital environment.
- Consists of a set of practical instructions and guidelines.
- Shaped by the theoretical framework of FRBR and FRAD (which makes it fundamentally different to AACR2).
Origin
- First published in 2010.
- Brought into being in an attempt to create AACR3.
- RDA replaced AACR2.
- In 2015 RDA was aligned with FRSAD (some changes made to the text and some content added).
Objectives
- Responsiveness to used needs
- Cost efficiency
- Flexibility
- Continuity
- Internationalisation
Principles
- Differentiation
- Sufficiency
- Relationships
- Representation
- Accuracy
- Common usage or practice
- Uniformity
5 User Tasks
- Find
- Identify
- Select
- Obtain
- Explore
- Find
Bringing together information about one or more RDA entities of interest by searching on any relevant criteria.
- Identify
Clearly understanding the nature of RDA entities found by searching and to distinguish similar entities.
- Select
Determining the suitability of RDA entities found by searching, and to be enabled to either accept or reject specific entities.
- Obtain
Accessing the content of an RDA manifestation
- Explore
Discovering RDA entities using the relationships between them and thus placing the entities in context.
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ISBN
Subfields $a ISBN e.g. $a 9781435110304
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Cataloguing Sources
Subfields $e - Description conventions (R) e.g. $e rda
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Personal Name
Subfields $a Personal name (NR) $b Numeration (NR) $c Titles and other words associated with a name (R) $d Dates associated with a name (generally, year of birth) (NR) $e Relator term $q Fuller form of name (NR) $t Title of a work (in name/title headings) (NR) (unlikely to be used)
e.g.
$a Van de Kamp, Peter, $d 1901-1995, $e author
$a John Paul ǂb II, $c Pope, $d 1920-2005, $e author
$a Henry $b VIII, $c King of England, $d 1491-1547, $e author
$a Esmeralda, $c Princess, daughter of Léopold III, King of the Belgians, $d 1956- $e author
$a Poppaea Sabina, $c Empress, consort of Nero, Emperor of Rome, $d -65 $c (Spirit), $e author
$a Green, Katie $c (Illustrator), $e artist, $e author
$a Chapin, Howard M. $q (Howard Millar), $d 1887-1940, $e compiler
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Title Statement
Subfields $a Title $b Remainder of title $c Statement of responsibility
e.g.
$a The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo : $b a novel / $c Taylor Jenkins Reid
$a Mermaids in paradise : $b a novel / $c Lydia Millet
$a The structure of scientific revolutions / $c Thomas S. Kuhn
$a H.G. Wells and the world state / $c W. Warren Wagar
$a The most of S.J. Perelman / $c foreword by Dorothy Parker ; afterword by Philip Hamburger
$a He who hunted birds in his father’s village : $b the dimensions of a Haida myth / $c Gary Snyder ; preface by Nathaniel Tarn ; edited by Donald Allen
$a Under the hill, or, The story of Venus and Tannhäuser : $b in which is set forth an exact account of the manner of state held by Madam Venus, goddess & meretrix, under the famous Horselberg, and containing the adventures of Tannhäuser in that place, his journeying to Rome, and return to the loving mountain / $c by Aubrey Beardsley, now completed by John Glassco
$a How to play chess / $c Kevin Wicker ; with a foreword by David Pritchard ; illustrated by Karel Feuerstein
$a Encoding across frontiers : $b proceedings of the European Conference on Encoded Archival Description and Context (EAD and EAC), Paris, France 7-8 October 2004 / $c edited by Bill Srockting, Fabienne Queyroux.