A structural approach to Resource Description and Access (RDA) standards with emphasis on its basic models: functional requirements for bibliographic records and functional requirements for authority

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RDA (Resource Description and Access) is the new standard for resource description
and access designed for the digital world. This new standard is superseding the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules 2 (AACR2) and attempts to address the challenges
of the new age of information and to develop new rules for description of
and access to modern media and the resources available in databases. The increasing
tendency in libraries and information centers to include digital resources makes
familiarity with the new rules like RDA necessary. In the present paper a brief introduction
of this standard and its requirements and goals are presented, followed
by a comprehensive evaluation of the structure of this model and its foundations:
Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) and Functional Requirements
for Authority Data (FRAD). In addition, the main differences between
RDA and AACR2 have been surveyed.

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Librarianship and Information Organization Studies
Volume 20, Issue 3 - Serial Number 3
December 2009
Pages 197-214

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  • Receive Date: 26 May 2015
  • Accept Date: 05 January 2009

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