RDA resource description and access

• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London CILIP 2015
• Subjects: Resource description & access; Descriptive cataloging > Standards
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• Physical Description: 1 v. in various pagings 28 cm
• ISBN: 9781783300747

Designed for the digital world and an expanding universe of metadata users, RDA: Resource Description and Access is the new, unified cataloguing standard. Benefits of RDA include: A structure based on the conceptual models of FRBR (functional requirements for bibliographic data) and FRAD (functional requirements for authority data) to help catalogue users find the information they need more easily A flexible framework for content description of digital resources that also serves the needs of libraries organizing traditional resources A better fit with emerging technologies, enabling institutions to introduce efficiencies in data capture and storage retrieval.