RDA (Resource Description and Access) - the working title of the new standard that will be the successor to AACR2. RDA is designed for the digital world. It will provide: A flexible framework for describing all resources - analog and digital; Data that is readily adaptable to new and emerging database structures; Data that is compatible with existing records in online library catalogues. FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) provides the conceptual foundation for RDA .
This Task Group is for collaborative work to enable broader use of the Resource Description and Access (RDA), building on agreements made at a [WWW]meeting held at the British Library April 30/May 1, 2007. Participants in the meeting came from DCMI and other Semantic Web groups, and the RDA development effort. The Task Group is led by Diane Hillmann (then of Cornell University, now at Syracuse University) and Gordon Dunsire of Strathclyde University.