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Understanding FRBR and RDA Terminology

The document provides an overview of terminology differences between AACR2 and RDA cataloging standards. It defines key RDA concepts like authorized access point, creator, preferred title, and variant access point. It also explains how RDA represents elements previously called physical description, general material designator, and chief source in AACR2. The document aims to outline terminology shifts in moving from AACR2 to RDA.

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Understanding FRBR and RDA Terminology

The document provides an overview of terminology differences between AACR2 and RDA cataloging standards. It defines key RDA concepts like authorized access point, creator, preferred title, and variant access point. It also explains how RDA represents elements previously called physical description, general material designator, and chief source in AACR2. The document aims to outline terminology shifts in moving from AACR2 to RDA.

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You see, FRBR is not so very different from

what we do now!

1
Collocation

• Objectives of a catalog, Don Quixote


Cervantes
to display:
• All works associated English
with a person, etc. Exemplary
• All expressions of the French novels
same work
• All manifestations of the German
same expression
• All items/copies of the Spanish
same manifestation Madrid, 1979

Library of Congress
Copy 1
Green leather binding 2
Unit 2: Overview of RDA
• RDA Terminology
• RDA: What it is
• The Structure of RDA

3
RDA Terminology

AACR2 RDA
heading authorized access point
author, composer,
creator
artist, etc.
preferred title and, if
main entry appropriate, the authorized
access point for the creator
Two RDA counterparts:
1. the preferred title and any
uniform title differentiating information;
2. a conventional collective
title such as “Works”
4
RDA Terminology

AACR2 RDA
see reference variant access point
see also authorized access point for
reference related entity
physical
carrier description
description
three elements:
general material 1. content type
designator 2. media type
3. carrier type
chief source preferred sources

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