RDA - RESOURCE DESCRIPTION AND ACCESS

 Resource Description and Access is a new standard for bibliographic description. 

It is a successor of AACR2.

 RDA flexible framework for describing all resources analog and digital.

Data that is readily adaptable to the new and emerging database structures.

Data that is compatible with existing records in online library catalogs.

1997 AACR JOINT STEERING COMMITTEE DECLARED AACR2 ( TORONTO - CANADA)

Resource digital environment was more appropriate than AACR2>>>RDA

RDA > SECTION 10

            CHAPTERS 37

            APPENDIX

            INDEX

GROUP 1 ENTITIES WEMI (WORK, EXPRESSION, MANIFESTO, AND ITEMS)

GROUP 2 ''  ''  ''    CUSTODIAN, PERSON, CORPORATE, AND FAMILY

GROUP 3 ''  ''  ''  CONCEPT, PLACE, EVENTS, OBJECT + ALL GR 1 AND 2