RDA

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Note: this page was created with music cataloging in mind.

See also Preferred titles

• Best practices for music cataloging using RDA and MARC 21 (RDA Toolkit, requires subscription)
• Transcription (RDA 1.7) including capitalization and abbreviations
  • Capitalization of foreign terms based on RDA Appendix A
• Recording numbers (RDA 1.8) and dates (RDA 1.9)
• Copy or new edition? (LC-PCC PS for 2.1) and Revised editions
• Preferred source of information (RDA 2.1.2.2-3 and 2.2)
• Titles (RDA 2.3)
  • Title proper
  • Parallel title proper
  • Other title information and other parallel title information
  • Variant title
• Statement of responsibility for titles (RDA 2.4)
• Edition statement (RDA 2.5)
• Production, publication, distribution & manufacture statements and copyright date (RDA 2.7-2.11)
• Content, media, and carrier type (RDA 6.9, 3.2, 3.3 & MARC 336-338)
• Extent and dimensions for notated music and text (from RDA 3.4 & 3.5)
• Sound characteristics (RDA 3.16 & MARC 344)
• Describing content (from RDA Chapter 7)
• Publisher's and plate number for music (RDA 2.15.2 & 2.15.3)
• Names
  • Persons
    • Recording names (RDA 8.4-8.5)
    • Identifying, choosing, and recording preferred and variant names for persons (RDA 9.0-9.2)
      • Surnames that include an article and/or preposition (RDA F.11) | Entry element for Spanish and Portuguese surnames
    • Recording other attributes of persons (RDA 9.3-9.18)
    • Constructing access points and variant access points to represent persons (RDA 9.19-9.2)
    • LC/PCC practice for creating NARs for persons who use pseudonyms
• Relationship designators
  • Metadata Guidance Documentation: Relationship Labels (LC)
  • relationship designators between: a resource and persons, families, and corporate bodies associated with the resource (RDA Appendix I) | works, expressions, manifestations (RDA Appendix J)
  • From PCC:
    • Training Manual for Applying Relationship Designators in Bibliographic Records
    • PCC Guidelines for the Application of Relationship Designators in NACO Authority Records (Word document)
• RDA short checklists (Yale)
• FRBR
  • FRBR, WEMI & music
• AACR2 to RDA
  • A brief overview of some of the changes from AACR2 to RDA
• RDA and MARC
  • RDA to MARC bibliographic mapping (maps RDA elements to corresponding MARC 21 bibliographic elements; in RDA Toolkit)
  • RDA in MARC
  • Examples of MARC RDA record (from RDA Steering Committee) (in RDA Toolkit)
• Presentations
  • RDA for music: classical music audio recordings
  • RDA for music : popular, jazz, and world music audio recordings
  • A brief introduction to RDA for scores & sound recordings / Nancy Lorimer
  • RDA and sound recordings—a cataloging workshop / Kathy Glennan
  • RDA and music basics: scores (ALA webcast) / Kathy Glennan
  • RDA and music basics: sound recordings (ALA webcast) / Kathy Glennan
• RDA YouTube channel