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RDA Constituency Review
Below are Chapters and Appendices in PDF format comprising the November 2008 full draft of RDA. Drafts and proposals are not an official part of RDA until they have received final approval from the Joint Steering Committee (JSC) and have been formally published. Note that the the comment period closed on 2 February 2009.
Full Draft
Below is a zipped file of the RDA Full Draft.
Full Draft ZIP (35Mb)
Individual Files
Below are Chapters, Appendices, and Glossary as individual files.
Table of Contents
(672K)
Chapter 0 (600K)
Introduction
Section 1: Recording Attributes of Manifestation and Item
Chapter 1 (1.3Mb)
General Guidelines On Recording Attributes of Manifestations and Items
Chapter 2 (11.5Mb)
Identifying Manifestations and Items
Chapter 3 (7.9Mb)
Describing Carriers
Chapter 4 (655K)
Providing Acquisition and Access Information
Section 2: Recording Attributes of Work and Expression
Chapter 5 (864K)
General Guidelines on Recording Attributes of Works and Expressions
Chapter 6 (21.3Mb)
Identifying Works and Expressions
Chapter 7 (3.6Mb)
Describing Content
Section 3: Recording Attributes of Person, Family, and Corporate Body
Chapter 8 (1.4Mb)
General Guidelines on Recording Attributes of Persons, Families, and Corporate Bodies
Chapter 9 (9.2Mb)
Identifying Persons
Chapter 10 (1.8Mb)
Identifying Families
Chapter 11 (12.1Mb)
Identifying Corporate Bodies
Section 4: Recording Attributes of Concept, Object, Event, and Place
Chapter 12 [Placeholder]
General Guidelines on Recording Attributes of Concept, Object, Event, and Place
Chapter 13 [Placeholder]
Identifying Concept
Chapter 14 [Placeholder]
Identifying Object
Chapter 15 [Placeholder]
Identifying Event
Chapter 16 (1.9Mb)
Identifying Place
Section 5: Recording Primary Relationships between a Work, Expression, Manifestation, and Item
Chapter 17 (1.9Mb)
General Guidelines on Recording Primary Relationships between a Work, Expression, Manifestation, and Item
Section 6: Recording Relationships to Persons, Families, and Corporate Bodies Associated with a Resource
Chapter 18 (766K)
General Guidelines on Recording Relationships to Persons, Families, and Corporate Bodies Associated with a Resource
Chapter 19 (6.3Mb)
Persons, Families, and Corporate Bodies Associated with a Work
Chapter 20 (1.7Mb)
Persons, Families, and Corporate Bodies Associated with an Expression
Chapter 21 (1.2Mb)
Persons, Families, and Corporate Bodies Associated with a Manifestation
Chapter 22 (754K)
Persons, Families, and Corporate Bodies Associated with an Item
Section 7: Recording Subject Relationships
Chapter 23 [Placeholder]
General Guidelines on Recording the Subject of a Work
Section 8: Recording Relationships Between Works, Expressions, Manifestations, and Items
Chapter 24 (1.3Mb)
General Guidelines on Recording Relationships Between Works, Expressions, Manifestations, and Items
Chapter 25 (1.4Mb)
Related Works
Chapter 26 (641K)
Related Expressions
Chapter 27 (845K)
Related Manifestations
Chapter 28 (389K)
Related Items
Section 9: Recording Relationships Between Persons, Families, and Corporate Bodies
Chapter 29 (373K)
General Guidelines on Recording Relationships Between Persons, Families, and Corporate Bodies
Chapter 30 (658K)
Related Persons
Chapter 31 (646K)
Related Families
Chapter 32 (710K)
Related Corporate Bodies
Section 10: Recording Relationships between Concepts, Objects, Events, and Places
Chapter 33 [Placeholder]
General Guidelines on Recording Relationships between Concepts, Objects, Events, and Places
Chapter 34 [Placeholder]
Related Concepts
Chapter 35 [Placeholder]
Related Objects
Chapter 36 [Placeholder]
Related Events
Chapter 37 [Placeholder]
Related Places
Appendices
Appendix A (4.5Mb)
Capitalization
Appendix B (295K)
Abbreviations
Appendix C (249K)
Initial Articles
Appendix D (1.9Mb)
Record Syntaxes for Descriptive Data
Appendix E (1.4Mb)
Record Syntaxes for Access Point Control
Appendix F (2.5Mb)
Additional Instructions on Names of Persons
Appendix G (219K)
Titles of Nobility, Terms of Rank, Etc.
Appendix H (276K)
Dates in the Christian Calendar
Appendix I (351K)
Relationship Designators: Relationships Between a Resource and Persons, Families, and Corporate Bodies Associated with the Resource
Appendix J (375K)
Relationship Designators: Relationships Between Works, Expressions, Manifestations, and Items
Appendix K (225K)
Relationship Designators: Relationships Between Persons, Families, and Corporate Bodies
Appendix L [Placeholder]
Relationship Designators: Relationships Between Concepts, Objects, Events, and Places
Appendix M (1.0Mb)
Complete Examples
Glossary
Glossary (411K)