NOTE: The RDA test period is over and NCSU's RDA test documentation has been retired and archived.
Staff in the Acquisitions & Discovery Department can access archived documentation at G:\Acquisitions & Discovery\Archive\Confluence\RDA Test Documentation. However, this documentation is no longer maintained or current and should not be used in cataloging work going forward.
NCSU Local RDA Test Participant Information
- RDA Test Common Set Workflow
- Find your NCSU Tester ID
- Find your NCSU Common Set Cataloging Record Assignment
- Find your assigned record on the chart: US RDA Test Common and Copy Set Surrogates
- Catalog your title in RDA or AACR2, as assigned
- Complete a US RDA Test Survey (either Common Original Set or Common Copy Set, as appropriate)
- Complete the NCSU RDA Test Form
- RDA Test Extra Set Workflow
- Find your NCSU Tester ID
- Catalog in RDA anything (and everything) you find in your normal day-to-day world needing original cataloging. You may also upgrade copy that meets our criteria for upgrade to RDA (see policies below)
- Complete a US RDA Test Survey (either Extra Original Set or Extra Copy Set, as appropriate)
- Complete the NCSU RDA Test Form
- RDA Test Non-MARC Workflow
- Find your NCSU Tester ID
- Follow the instructions at: RDA Test Non-MARC Workflow
- Complete a US RDA Test Survey for the Extra Copy Set
(we are treating these as upgraded copy) - Complete the NCSU RDA Test Form
(under Format Cataloged and under Item Type choose "non-MARC")
- OCLC Information for the Test
- RDA Test Survey Summary
- Overall Instructions for the RDA Test (Testing Partners US RDA Test documentation)
External Documentation
- 33X Term and Code Lists
- Adding RDA Elements/Fields to Existing OCLC non-RDA Records
- CONSER's "RDA as modified by CSR: recommended guidelines"
- Examples of changes from AACR2 to RDA
(Adam Schiff, University of Washington Libraries) - LC RDA train-the-trainer Webcasts
- Library of Congress RDA test site
- MARC21 Encoding to Accomodate RDA Elements: LC Practice for the RDA Test
(LC Train the Trainer Training Document #5) - PCC Guidelines for RDA Test
- RDA in MARC
(Proposed and implemented changes to MARC for RDA @ LC MARC Standards) - 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|confluence/download/attachments/17600159/TrainingDoc3-RDAElements.doc?version=1&modificationDate=1284490686000||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||\
(LC Train the Trainer Training Document #3) - University of Chicago RDA test site
- University of Minnesota RDA test site
- Where Is It in RDA
(LC Train the Trainer Training Document #2)