NCSU Libraries is happy to provide open accessibility to our Resource Description & Access (RDA) test materials. While our goal is to make as many materials as open as possible, visitors should note that they may find occasional pages restricted throughout this site (logins, staff information, etc.). Please also note that this is a living documentation site for NCSU catalogers and will change and grow as we proceed. All decisions apply only to the US RDA Test period. We have set nothing in stone and our RDA documentation is quite a moving target. NCSU Libraries will make implementation decisions based on testing results and in conjunction with the community nationally. We are happy for feedback on this site. Please email Erin Stalberg, Head Metadata & Cataloging, NCSU Libraries.
RDA Toolkit
- RDA Toolkit URL: http://access.rdatoolkit.org/
- Login instructions
NCSU Local RDA Test Participant Information
- US RDA Test Common and Copy Set
- Common Set Cataloging Record Assignments
- OCLC Connexion Common Original Set Temporary Authorization (restricted to NCSU staff)
- Creating Institutional Records for US RDA Test Common Set Resources (restricted to NCSU staff)
- Creating RDA Institution Records (RDA Testing Partners Document)
- Tester IDs for RDA Surveys
- RDA Test Survey Summary
- Complete a US RDA Test Survey (restricted to NCSU staff)
- OCLC macros for creating RDA records for the Test
NCSU Local Policy & Procedures
- 336-338 fields
- Authority Work for the RDA Test Period
- Policy on Upgrading Monographic Records to RDA during the RDA Test Period
- Policy on Upgrading Serial and Integrating Resource Records to RDA During the RDA Test Period
- RDA Record Creation Timing
- Relationship Designators (Relator Terms)
- Rule of 3
Questions, Clarifications, and Curiosities
- Coding date fixed fields for a single part monograph with both publication and copyright dates
- Creator vs Collaborator
- How should you code the fixed fields when you are using "place of publication not identified" but you have place of manufacture or distribution?
- Instructions in AACR2 but not in RDA
- ISBD full stop
- Noun phrases occurring with a statement of responsibility
- Relationship designator term encoding practice (MARC 100-111 & 700-711, subfield e)
- Relationship designator phrase encoding practice (MARC 700-730, subfield i)
- Should I include a 300 field for an incomplete print serial?
- System Details Note (MARC 538) in RDA
- Which MARC fields are transcribed?
NCSU RDA Test Workflows
- Constructing RDA Authorized Access Points for Persons and Corporate Bodies Workflow
- Multipart Monograph Workflow
- Single Part Monograph Workflow
- Continuing Resource Workflow
NCSU RDA Test Workforms
Monographic Formats
- CD sound recording workform
- CDROM book workform
- CDROM computer file workform
- DVD workform
- e-Book workform (with Provider-Neutral adaptations)
- Single or multipart monograph workform
- Streaming video workform
Continuing & Integrating Resource Formats
- Print serial workform - Updated 23 Sept. 2010
- Online serial workform - Updated 23 Sept. 2010
- Print integrating resource - Updated 23 Sept. 2010
- Online integrating resource - Updated 23 Sept. 2010
NCSU RDA Test Practice Record Electronic Surrogates & RDA MARC 21 Test Record Examples
Monographic Formats
- Audiobook MARC21 RDA Record Example
(Lives of girls and women by Alice Munro) - CD Sound Recording MARC21 RDA Record Example
(219 days by Kalan Porter) - CDROM MARC21 RDA Record Example
(Destructive turf insects: the grubs by Lawn & Landscape Media Group) - DVD #1 Electronic Surrogate
(Emma, 1996 -- Feature film) - DVD #1 MARC21 RDA Record Example
(Emma, 1996 -- Feature Film) - DVD #2 Electronic Surrogate
(Black Adder: The Complete Collector's Set -- Television Program) - DVD #2 MARC21 RDA Record Example
(Black Adder: The Complete Collector's Set -- Television Program) - DVD #3 Electronic Surrogate
(Legacy of fire: the story of the Tillamook Burn -- Documentary) - DVD #3 MARC21 RDA Record Example
(Legacy of fire: the story of the Tillamook Burn -- Documentary) - Multipart Monograph #1 Electronic Surrogate
(Intellectual property and business edited by Stephen E. Margolis and Craig M. Newmark) - Multipart Monograph #1 MARC21 RDA Record Example
(Intellectual property and business edited by Stephen E. Margolis and Craig M. Newmark) - Multipart Monograph #2 Electronic Surrogate
(Mass trauma and emotional healing around the world edited by Ani Kalayjian and Dominique Eugene) - Multipart Monograph #2 MARC21 RDA Record Example
(Mass trauma and emotional healing around the world edited by Ani Kalayjian and Dominique Eugene) - Single Part Monograph #1 Electronic Surrogate
(Food security in India by Dr. Anshu) - Single Part Monograph #1 MARC21 RDA Record Example
(Food security in India by Dr. Anshu) - Single Part Monograph #2 Electronic Surrogate
(The blog by Enrique Martínez Celaya) - Single Part Monograph #2 MARC21 RDA Record Example
(The blog by Enrique Martínez Celaya) - Streaming Video #1 MARC21 RDA Record Example
(For whom the bell tolls: the Spanish Civil War)
Continuing & Integrating Resource Formats
- Printed textual serial
Avian Biology Research - practice example
Avian Biology Research - practice answers
India Media Studies Journal - practice example
India Media Studies Journal - practice answers - Online textual serial
Energy and the Earth : Research - practice example: see http://www.mines.edu/energyandtheearth
Energy and the Earth : Research - practice answers
Other Institution MARC21 RDA Record Examples
- LC AACR2 to RDA Book Examples
- LC AACR2 to RDA GMD Examples
- LC AACR2 to RDA Language & Expression Examples
- LC AACR2 to RDA Publication Statement Examples
- LC AACR2 to RDA Statement of Responsibility Examples
- University of Chicago MARC21 RDA Examples
NCSU RDA Training Documentation
PowerPoint Presentations:
- FRBR and Entity Relationships
- NCSU RDA Training Day 1
- NCSU RDA Training Day 2
- NCSU RDA Training Day 3
Training Documents:
External Documentation
- Adding RDA Elements/Fields to Existing OCLC non-RDA Records
- Examples of changes from AACR2 to RDA
(Adam Schiff, University of Washington Libraries) - MARC21 Encoding to Accomodate RDA Elements: LC Practice for the RDA Test
(LC Train the Trainer Training Document #5) - RDA Controlled Vocabularies: "Not Closed" and "Closed
(LC Train the Trainer Training Document #1) - RDA Core Elements
(LC Train the Trainer Training Document #4) - RDA Core Elements and FRBR User Tasks
(Joint Steering Committee for the Development of RDA) - RDA Elements: Core, Core If and LC Core
(LC Train the Trainer Training Document #3) - Where Is It in RDA
(LC Train the Trainer Training Document #2) - LC RDA train-the-trainer Webcasts
- Library of Congress RDA test site
- PCC Guidelines for RDA Test
- University of Chicago RDA test site
- University of Minnesota RDA test site