RDA draft Part A chapters 6 and 7
The draft of Resource Description and Access Part A Chapters 6 and 7 (626 KB PDF) is now available! See the announcement page for full details. Chapter 6 is “Related Resources” and covers relationships between things. I haven’t read it yet but it looks like it provides a nice set of rules for dealing with the sorts of things we saw in the Lord of the Rings challenge, where all kinds of works were related to other works in complicated ways. Lots of relationships are described in the FRBR Final Report, but there are more in RDA here. (Notice it talks about works and expressions, too.) I’ll be summarizing the challenge soon and then maybe I’ll take a stab at using RDA rules to describe all the relationships. Chapter 7 is “Persons, Families, and Corporate Bodies Associated with a Resource,” or, in FRBR terms, Group 2 entities.
All this is being done by the Joint Steering Committee for the Revision of Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, and they’ve put their working documents online.
(Announcement of this seen on the AUTOCAT mailing list.)