RDA

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

See also Preferred titles

• RDA elements: elements, element sub-types, and sub-elements (PDF) in order by RDA instruction number (p. 2-17) and by element name (p. 18-33), from RDA Steering Committee
• 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
    • Personal names (PPT from British Library)
  • Corporate names
    • Corporate names (PPT from British Library)
• 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
• Documentation from MLA's Cataloging and Metadata Committee
  • Best practices for music cataloging using RDA and MARC 21: version 1.1, February 17, 2015
         Supplements to Best practices for music cataloging using RDA and MARC21 version 1.6 February 14, 2017
         RDA Toolkit version of Best practices for music cataloging using RDA and MARC 21:
    • RDA 0: Introduction
    • RDA 1: General guidelines on recording attributes of manifestations and items
    • RDA 2: Identifying manifestations and items
    • RDA 3: Describing carriers
    • RDA 4: Providing acquisition and access information
    • RDA 5: General guidelines on recording attributes of works and expressions
    • RDA 6: Identifying works and expressions
    • RDA 7: Describing content
    • RDA 11: Identifying corporate bodies
    • RDA 17: General guidelines on recording primary relationships
    • RDA 18: General guidelines on recording relationships to persons, families, and corporate bodies associated with a resource
    • RDA 19: Persons, families, and corporate bodies associated with a work
    • RDA 20: Persons, families, and corporate bodies associated with an expression
    • RDA 24: General guidelines on recording relationships between works, expressions, manifestations, and items
    • RDA 25: Related works
    • RDA 26: Related expressions
    • RDA 27: Related manifestations
    • RDA D: Record syntaxes for descriptive data
    • RDA E: Record syntaxes for access point control
  • RDA music-related revisions
• RDA short checklists (Yale)
• FRBR
  • FRBR, WEMI & music
  • FRBR as a foundation for RDA (ALA webcast) / Robert L. Maxwell
• AACR2 to RDA
  • A brief overview of some of the changes from AACR2 to RDA
  • Changes from AACR2 to RDA part 1 | part 2 (ALA webcast) / Adam L. Schiff
  • RDA name authorities—what's new and different from AACR2 (ALA webcast) / Paul Frank
  • Changes from AACR2 to RDA: a comparison of examples (PDF, revised May 2011) / Adam Schiff.
• 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
  • Hit the ground running! RDA training for music catalogers
  • RDA Preconference, 2013 MLA meeting
  • 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) PPT slides / Kathy Glennan
  • RDA and music basics: sound recordings (ALA webcast) PPT slides / Kathy Glennan
  • Significant changes for cataloging music: AACR2 vs. RDA (PDF) / Daniel Paradis, 2010
• RDA resources (from RDA blog)
• Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA
• RDA essentials (ppt presentation with speaker notes) / Judith Kuhagen, 2010
• RDA in Brief (A distillation of RDA, at least for copy catalogers) / Mark K. Ehlert
• RDA YouTube channel