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Resource Description and Access
About: Resource Description and Access is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1859 publications have been published within this topic receiving 10957 citations. The topic is also known as: RDA & Resource Description & Access.
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TL;DR: RDA was created in response to complaints about the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, especially the call for a more international, principle-based content standard that takes the perspective of the conceptual models of FRBR and FRAD.
Abstract: RDA was created in response to complaints about the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, especially the call for a more international, principle-based content standard that takes the perspective of the conceptual models of FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) and FRAD (Functional Requirements for Authority Data). The past and ongoing process for continuous improvement to RDA is through the Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA (known as the JSC, but recently renamed the RDA Steering Committee - RSC) to make RDA even more international and principle-based.
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TL;DR: The Independent Scholars' Association of Australia met in Canberra in May 1997 to discuss the impact of the collecting policies of libraries and the access and discard policies of archives on their activities as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The Independent Scholars' Association of Australia met in Canberra in May 1997 to discuss the impact of the collecting policies of libraries and the access and discard policies of archives on their activities. This article is an edited version of a paper which sought to show what a university library could and could not do for an independent scholar.
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01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: How RIMMF interacts with the RDA Toolkit and RDA Registry to offer cataloger-friendly multilingual data input and editing interfaces is described.
Abstract: This paper presents a case study of a software tool developed to bridge the gap between cataloguing rules based on the IFLA FRBR family of conceptual models of bibliographic entities and relations, now in the final stages of consolidation in the FRBR Library Reference Model, and cataloguers maintaining bibliographic data in systems based on inventory and text-processing applications. RDA: Resource Description and Access is the successor to the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules and a major implementation of the FRBR model, but the data it is intended to produce is primarily maintained and used in MARC 21 encoding for use in applications that have not essentially changed in the past 40 years. In 2011 a small software company, TMQ Inc., began the development of a prototype cataloguing interface designed purely for RDA and the FRBR model. The RIMMF (RDA in Many Metadata Formats) software package has been tested in numerous field trials, the most notable being the "jane-athons" or hackathons for RDA data involving a wide range of practicing cataloguers. The paper describes how RIMMF interacts with the cataloguing guidance and instructions in the RDA Toolkit and the data elements and value vocabularies in the RDA Registry to present a set of cataloguer-friendly multilingual data input and editing interfaces, and discusses the additional IT infrastructure required to support future operational cataloguing systems.
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TL;DR: It is found that RDA, while simpler, still lacks the granularity the authors need and does not handle new or complex formats as easily as its designers claim.
Abstract: Auburn University Libraries decided to use Resource Description and Access's (RDA's) content, media, and carrier (CMC) fields to display format information in our VuFind catalog in hopes of solving the granularity and ambiguity problems encountered under Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, second edition (AACR2) and the scattering of format information throughout the MAchine-Readable Cataloging record. After adding the CMCs to every record in the catalog and writing preliminary code, we have found that RDA, while simpler, still lacks the granularity we need and does not handle new or complex formats as easily as its designers claim.
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