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Module 4 Key differences from AACR2
Structure
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Adapted from: Teaching RDA: Train-the-trainer course RDA: Resource description and access presented by the National Library of Australia in 2012 and made available under a Creative
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Learning Outcomes
• Understand similarities between RDA and AACR2
• Understand the structural differences between RDA and AACR2
Key differences from AACR2
What’s the same?
Key differences from AACR2
• Format-neutral• Content standard• Terminology (AACR2
RDA) • LCRI vs. LC-PCC PS vs.
Anglo-American decisions
• Online interactive tool• Core elements
What’s different?
• FRBR/FRAD structure• User focussed (FRBR user
tasks)• Greater emphasis on
relationships• Representation (from ICP)• GMD change to Content,
Media and Carrier• MARC changes• ISBD changes
Key differences from AACR2
• Format-neutral• Content standard only
What’s different?
Intellectual content > Physical format
Intellectual content > Data structure
Key differences from AACR2
What’s different?
Uniform title = Preferred title
• Terminology (AACR2 RDA)
• LCRI vs. LC-PCC PS vs. Anglo-American decisions
• Online interactive tool• Core elements
AACR2 level descriptions
AACR2 1.0D3 For the third level of description, include all elements set out in the following rules that are applicable to the item being described.
RDA Core elements
Core elements
Where in RDA?• Introduction: 0.6 Core elements• Each Section – “General guidelines”
– E.g. 1.3, 5.3
• Each “Core” instruction marked as core– E.g. 3.3 Carrier type, 2.4 Statement of
responsibility
Core elementsConditionally core
• Certain type of resources or entities• If related core elements are not available
– E.g. Date of copyright, if no date of publication• If multiple, only first one is core
– E.g. Multiple statements of responsibility
• If required to distinguish– E.g. Fuller form of name core if it will distinguish
the name from another similar one
Core elements
Institutional policy• LC-PCC PS – “LC Core”
• NLNZ cataloguing policy – draft available on the DescribeNZ wiki www.describe.org.nz
Key differences from AACR2
What’s different?
• Representation (from ICP)• User focussed (FRBR user
tasks = FISO)• FRBR/FRAD structure• Greater emphasis on
relationships
Attributes
Relationships
Title proper: Whose bottom is thisStatement of responsibility: Wayne LynchPlace of publication: MilwaukeePublisher: Gareth Stevens PubDate of publication: 2003Media type: unmediatedCarrier type: volumeExtent of text: 32 pages Dimensions: 22 x 24 cmSeries: Name that animal
Content type: text; still imageLanguage of expression: English
Work manifested: Lynch, Wayne. Whose bottom is this
Creator: Lynch, Wayne, author
Screen image from the RDA Toolkit (www.rdatoolkit.org) used by permission of the Co-Publishers for RDA (American Library Association, Canadian Library Association, and CILIP: Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals)
FRBR/FRAD Structure
Key differences from AACR2
What’s different?
• GMD change to Content, Media and Carrier
• MARC changes• ISBD changes
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by Wayne Lynch.250 $a U.S. ed. 264 #1 $a Milwaukee, Wis. :$b Gareth Stevens Pub.,$c 2003.300 $a 32 pages :$b colour illustrations ;$c 22 x 24 cm336 $a text $2 rdacontent336 $a still image $2 rdacontent337 $a unmediated $2 rdamedia338 $a volume $2 rdacarrier
The instructions in AACR2 form the basis for the instructions in RDA
a. True
b. False
Key differences from AACR2
RDA is format neutral; this means-
a. Instructions are arranged by formatb. Format is not considered at allc. Instructions give more emphasis to intellectual content than physical format
Key differences from AACR2
Sections 1-4 of RDA cover...
a. General rules for description
b. Recording attributes
c. Subjects of works
Key differences from AACR2
In RDA GMD is recorded...
a. The same way as AACR2b. With new terminology and in new MARC fieldsc. In new fields but with AACR2 terminology
Key differences from AACR2
RDA is a content standard; this means
a. It emphasises what should be recorded but not howb. It is independent of encoding schemes such as ISBD and MARCc. Data created cannot be shared across different systems
Key differences from AACR2
Each section of RDA begins with a statement of the functional objectives of the FRBR and FRAD user tasks
a. True
b. False
Key differences from AACR2
Data created in RDA will no longer be abbreviated becausea. Data was less important in
AACR2b. We are no longer constrained by
limitations of card cataloguesc. Users don’t understand abbreviations
Key differences from AACR2
Terminology in RDA is
a. The same as in AACR2
b. Based on FRBR and FRAD models
c. Unique terms developed specifically for RDA
Key differences from AACR2
RDA is independent from schemes such as MARC and ISBD; this meansa. RDA is incompatible with MARC
and ISBDb. Data created can only be used
in the library environmentc. Future changes to encoding standards will not require changes to RDA
Key differences from AACR2
Where are instructions for core elements?
a. In the introduction at 0.6
b. In the general guidelines chapter in each sectionc. At the beginning of each instruction
d. All of the above
Key differences from AACR2
Key differences from AACR2
Summary
• Instructions based on AACR2
• Structure based on FRBR/FRAD
• Compatible MARC21 and ISBD