Cataloging Law Materials with RDA
By alctsce
This is an AI-generated summary of “Cataloging Law Materials with RDA” — a 59 min YouTube video by alctsce, published July 30, 2012. It condenses the full transcript into 10 key takeaways with clickable timestamps.
Summary
This webinar provides a comprehensive overview of cataloging legal materials using RDA, detailing its foundational principles, specific rules for various legal works, and key differences from AACR2.
Key Points
- The webinar introduces RDA's foundational principles, which are based on IFLA's functional requirements conceptual models like FRBR and FRAD, defining entities and relationships crucial for cataloging.
- RDA differs from AACR2 by focusing on preferred titles and authorized access points for legal works, with specific instructions organized by type of work in section 6.29.
- Core elements in RDA include the principal or first-named creator, and other associated persons or corporate bodies are core if they are used to construct the authorized access point for the work.
- For laws governing a single jurisdiction, the authorized access point begins with the jurisdiction, followed by the preferred title for the law, a practice largely consistent with AACR2 uniform titles.
- Administrative regulations in countries where they are not considered laws are cataloged using the promulgating agency as the access point, combined with the preferred title for the regulations.
- A significant change in RDA for treaties is that the authorized access point starts with the first-named party in the resource, rather than following English alphabetical order as in AACR2, and uses "Treaties, etc." as the preferred title.
- Ongoing discussions within the Joint Steering Committee include standardizing treaty dates and simplifying rules for court reports, indicating potential future changes to RDA.
- Criminal proceedings are entered under the defendant's access point, and non-criminal proceedings under the plaintiff's access point, both combined with the preferred title for the proceedings.
- Rules governing a single court are cataloged under the court's access point combined with the preferred title for the rules, while judicial decisions combine the court's access point with the decision's preferred title.
- While transitioning to RDA presents challenges for ILS vendors and libraries in adapting systems and display, RDA's framework of entities and relationships is a step towards creating linked data for better web sharing and data utilization.
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