
"RDA is a set of guidelines that indicates how to describe a resource, focusing on the pieces of information (or attributes) that a user is most likely to need to know. It aslo encourages the description of relationships between related resources and between resources and persons or bodies that contributed to the creation of that resource."--Oliver, 2007.
New content management system
- a set of cataloguing guidelines
- used to format data
- based on elements, attributes and relationships
- used by Libraries, Archives and Museums
- describes non traditional things
Helps users with information tasks of:
- Finding
- Identifying
- Selecting
- Obtainin
Libraries subscribe to

- 10 Sections
- 37 chapters
- 13 Appendices
Helps cataloguers format information for users
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