Poulter, A.: Filling in the blanks in RDA or remaining blank? : the strange case of FRSAD (2013)
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- Abstract
- RDA (Resource Description and Access) was released in July 2010, and made available for use, either in an online form, the RDA Toolkit (http://beta.rdatoolkit.gvpi.net/) or in printed form, in a large loose-leaf binder. In July 2011, the Library of Congress, the National Library of Medicine, and the National Agricultural Library announced the decision to adopt RDA after conducting trials. The decision to adopt RDA though carried riders on certain perceived issues to be resolved, related to rules readability, online delivery issues of the RDA Toolkit and a business case outlining costs and benefits of adoption. It appears though that, allowing for these issues to be dealt with, RDA will begin adoption in 2013 and will gradually replace the aged AACR2 (Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Second Edition). Unlike AACR2, RDA was intended to also provide subject access. As RDA currently stands, Chapters 12-16, 23, 33-37 are intended to establish guidelines for providing subject access, but only Chapter 16, 'Identifying Places' is complete.. This paper will outline possible strategies for moving forward in completing the remaining blank chapters, based on the model given in the recent Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (IFLA Working Group, 2010), here-after referred to as FRSAD. This paper begins by outlining significant developments prior to the appearance of FRSAD which was formerly known as FRSAR. This involves coverage of the two preceding reports, the Functional Requirements of Bibliographic Records (FRBR, IFLA 2008) and the Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD, IFLA 2009), which was formerly known as FRANAR. The final version of FRSAD, released in 2009, will be contrasted to earlier efforts to extend the FRBR/FRAD models to fully cover subject access. Finally, a prospective proposal to take FRSAD forward to implementation using PRECIS (Preserved Context Indexing System) will be examined, as well as the general reception of FRSAD.
