RDA Flashcards
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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.
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Edition Statement
Subfields $a Reprint Edition e.g. $a Reprint edition
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Publication Details
Subfields $a Place of publication $b Publisher $c Date of publication
e.g.
$a New York : $b Atria Books, $c 2017
$a Chicago : $b University of Chicago Press, $c 1996
$a New York ; $a London ; $a Victoria (AU) : $B The Haworth Information Press, an imprint of The Haworth Press, Inc., $c [date of publication not identified].
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Extent of the Item
Subfields
$a Number of volumes and/or
number of pages
$b Other physical details:
Illustrations, portraits, maps
$c Dimensions: cm
e.g.
$a xix, 293 pages : $b portraits ; $c 21 cm
$a 121 pages : $b portraits ; $c 24 cm
$a xiv, 253 pages ; $c 23 cm
$a xii, 210 pages ; $c 21 cm
$a 391 pages ; $c 24 cm
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Content Type
Subfields
$a Content type: text, performed
music, two-dimensional moving
image, tactile text etc.
$b Content type code: txt, prm,
tdi, tct, etc.
$0 Authority record control
number or standard number
$1 Real World Object URI
$2 Source: rdacontent
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Media Type
Subfields
$a Media type: audio, video,
computer, unmediated, etc.
$b Media type code: s, v, c, n, etc.
$0 Authority record control
number or standard number
$1 Real World Object URI
$2 Source: rdamedia
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Carrier Type
Subfields
$a Content type: volume, audio
disc, video disc, computer disc
$b Carrier type code: nc, sd, vd,
cd
$0 Authority record control
number or standard number
$1 Real World Object URI
$2 Source: rdacarrier
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Series Statement
Subfields $a Series statement
e.g.
$a Religion in America
$a Mass violence in America
$a Historical issues in mental health
$a Library and information science text series
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General Note
Subfields $a Originally published, etc.
e.g.
$a Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran, 1938.
$a Originally published: Cincinnati : Ark Pub Co., 1915.
$a Originally published: 2nd ed. Chicago : L. E. Parsons, 1910. With editorial note.
$a Speeches by August Spies, Michael Schwab, Samuel Fielden and Albert R. Parsons.
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Bibliography, etc. Note
Subfields
$a Bibliography note
e.g.
$a Includes bibliograpical references (page 227-293)
$a Includes bibliographical references (page 277-293).
$a Includes bibliography and index.
$a Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-325) and index.
