Category: Information management

In 2010, the library world saw the introduction of Resource Description and Access (RDA) as the successor to the long-standing Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Second Edition (AACR2). The transition to this new standard brings numerous advantages of RDA for information professionals and users alike, especially in the context of the ever-expanding digital information landscape. This shift is designed to create more flexible, robust, and web-friendly metadata that better serves a modern audience.

As of March 31, 2013, the Library of Congress and other major libraries officially adopted Resource Description and Access (RDA) as their primary cataloging standard. The central concept that defines RDA is its role as a flexible, user-centered framework for describing library and cultural heritage resources in the digital environment. It provides guidelines for creating structured metadata that reflects the relationships between entities, moving beyond the limitations of its predecessor, AACR2.