RDA: The Inside Story

Abstract

RDA is the new content standard for Resource Description and Access which will be published in 2009. It is emerging from a major restructuring and re-evaluation of current cataloguing rules. RDA supersedes AACR2. It is a new tool, more flexible and extensible than AACR2, more logical and thus easier to use, applicable beyond traditional cataloguing, and designed for use in an on-line, networked environment.