RDA as a new starting point for international cooperation: Retrospective national bibliographies and medieval manuscripts

Abstract

The introduction of RDA is an opportunity to reconsider those cultural heritage materials, their special needs, and their contribution to RDA, which so far have been outside or at the margin of the general catalog and the application of internationally agreed rules. This article discusses these issues and gives two examples of the value of this approach in the area of retrospective national bibliographies and medieval codex manuscripts. In both cases the availability of a standard identifier plays a central role.