RDA and FRBR - Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA

Slide 33Content vs. display• RDA will be a content standard --not adisplay or encoding standard• Independent of the communication format(e.g., MARC 21, MODS)• Independent of display format (e.g., OPAClabels, ISBD)• International Standard BibliographicDescription order of data elements andprescribed punctuation in AACR2 are notpart of the RDA instructions• ISBD Display information in Appendix to RDA• RDA-created records can be displayed in anISBD display if desired33The JSC decision to make RDA a content standard rather than a display standard was reallya key to moving RDA forward. This allowed us to move beyond the ISBDs – by not requiringISBD punctuation (which is irrelevant to metadata communities, and not used in many OPACsanyway).However, we need to ensure that RDA records can be displayed in an ISBD display if a librarystill wants to do that – in this way we can honor our agreement to keep RDA compatible withthe ISBDs. So we’re trying to build in compatibility yet flexibility at the same time. There willbe an appendix on ISBD display of RDA records to indicate the order of elements andpunctuation to be used.