Structure of RDA and its Application in Description of Serial
Zeng Wei-zhong
Journal of Data Processing, Vol. 5, No. 3, 2015.
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Abstract:
Resource Description & Access, the successor standard to the 2nd edition of Anglo-American Cataloguing
Rules(AACR2),has been applied in bibliographic records of libraries in US, UK, Germany, Australia and Canada since
March 31, 2013. Although RDA has been studied for many years all over the world, papers on the cataloguing methods
of RDA seldom appear. In order for cataloguers in the world to master concrete cataloguing rules and methods of RDA
quickly, the author explains the structure of RDA and its application in serial cataloguing acording to RDA Toolkit.
Firstly the paper introduces the background of RDA and its structureÃƒÂ¿then introduces the cataloguing methods of RDA
elements in serial, finally lists its MARC21 fomulate.