A New Standard For Resource Description With RDA
February 18, 2010
Keywords: Resource Description Standard, Semantic Web, RDF, Library Cataloguing.
A new standard for describing resources in the digital world has emerged in the collaborative effort process led by the Joint Steering Committee. It has been named as Resource Description and Access (RDA), an idea that emerged from an international conference held at Toronto way back in 1997. RDA lets you harness the full power of metadata that librarians have created over decades. If you want to describe resources, now you can use RDA for meeting user’s need of searching and displaying metadata because RDA has a flexible framework which can fit with existing databases and also adopts cataloguing principles from AACR2R. RDA is set to be released in June 2010 and librarians will soon start cataloguing their data using this standard. Learn more about this first move towards Resource Description Framework (RDF) by accessing the RDA Toolkit here and read more about its capabilities at The Principle Blog.
