Resource description and access (RDA) and new research potentials

Abstract

The article discusses Resources Description and Access(RDA), a new set of descriptive cataloging rules developed to replace the longstanding Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules 2(AACR2), which would be put into effect in the third quarter of 2009. The main goal of the new rule is to facilitate resource discovery through library catalogs in a more powerful and consistent manner. It also discusses the strengths of RDA in comparison with AACCR2's, stating that the former puts considerably more emphasis on authority control as well as having a vastly different structure from its predecessors. It also listed some of the areas of potential new reasearch as a result of RDA, Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records(FRBR), and Functional Requirements for Authority Data(FRAD).