Showing posts with label RDA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RDA. Show all posts

Monday, November 24, 2008

RDA Constituency Review

RDA is up for review again. People who are interested in RDA could submit your comments by February 2, 2009. RDA (Resource Description and Access) will be the general guideline for information professionals to describe electronic resources and provide access to online informaton for users; it also facilitates the metadata quality control and sharing metadata between different communities and metadata schemes.

Monday, June 30, 2008

RDA Webcasts by Barbara Tillett

Barbara Tillett, the chief officer of the Cataloging Policy and Support Office, Library of Congress,talks about RDA (Resource Description and Access) in two new webcasts. He introduces the background of RDA development, gives us an overview of the new rules, and addresses the next generation cataloging code designed for the digital environment. Will RDA be published in early 2009?

Title 1: Resource Description and Access: Background / Overview
Title 2: Cataloging Principles and RDA: Resource Description and Access