Coyle and Hillmann, RDA: Cataloging Rules for the 20th Century
Karen Coyle and Diane Hillmann have a paper in the January/February 2007 issue of D-Lib Magazine: Resource Description and Access (RDA): Cataloging Rules for the 20th Century. It’s caused some lively discussion on blogs and maliing lists, including this thread from the NGC4LIB mailing list; both Coyle and Hillmann are on the list and in the thread.
In addition, although lip service has been paid to the FRBR Group I entities and the idea of disaggregating the current cataloging record to better make use of FRBR’s insights, RDA is not going in this direction. The focus of RDA is called “the resource” and the resource is a FRBR manifestation/item described using the same concept of a pre-coordinated “record” as we find in AACR2. This record brings together in single package a bibliographic description based on a manifestation, as well as some elements that “reflect attributes of work and expression associated the intellectual or artistic content of a resource”.