Draft of RDA Chapter 3
The Joint Steering Committee for the Revision of AACR announced yesterday that they have made available the revised draft of RDA Part A, Chapter 3 (558 KB PDF). It’s 150 pages long but some FRBR material will jump out at on page four:
Alignment with FRBR
As agreed at the October 2006 JSC meeting, the elements covered in chapter 3 have been aligned more directly with the corresponding attributes of the manifestation as defined in FRBR. The realignment of instructions in chapter 3 has also resulted in the following FRBR attributes of manifestation being treated as separate elements: generation, foliation, font size, and reduction ratio.
To improve FRBR alignment, instructions on recording information relating to illustrative matter, duration and tactile systems of notation have been transferred to chapter 4 (Content), and these are included in the attached chapter 4 addendum.
To more closely reflect the FRBR attributes they relate to, the following instructions, included in the previous draft of chapter 3, will be transferred to other chapters:
- instructions on recording information relating to mode of access (transferred to chapter 5 Terms of availability, etc.).
- instructions on recording information relating to accompanying material and instructions on making notes on other formats available (transferred to chapter 7
Related resources).At the October 2006 JSC meeting it was agreed to use the phrase “considered to be important for identification or selection” in instructions where needed, so that the need to support FRBR user tasks was taken into account by cataloguers when determining whether to record additional information.
On a related note, Will RDA Be DOA? by Roy Tennant in Library Journal has caused some rather warm discussion in cataloguing mailing lists and blogs.