RDA Update
Been wondering what’s happening with Resource Description and Access, the revised cataloguing rules? Outcomes of the Meeting of the Joint Steering Committee Held in Ottawa, Canada, 24-28 April 2006 was posted yesterday. The big news is that instead of coming in three parts (I, II, and III) it will come in two parts (A and B).
The portion of part A that deals with relationships will be issued for review according to the same timeframe as that determined for the former part II. It will cover: relationships between the FRBR group 1 entities (works, expressions, manifestations, and items); relationships between FRBR group 1 entities and FRBR group 2 entities (persons, families, corporate bodies); and, instructions for particular types of content, e.g., musical works, legal works, and religious works.
The structure of part A will allow for better alignment of chapters with the FRBR user tasks of find, identify, select, and obtain.
The people on the Joint Steering Committee for Revision of Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (there’s a picture of them on the update — they look like a happy bunch) seem to be ploughing through lots of stuff. In a few weeks the next part of the draft of RDA will be out, along with more about the structure of the entire thing.