RDA and Music Cataloging
General information
Best practices for music cataloging using RDA and MARC 21 (RDA Toolkit, requires subscription)
Transcription (RDA 1.7) including capitalization and abbreviations
Capitalization of foreign terms based on RDA Appendix A
Recording numbers and Dates (RDA 1.8 and 1.9, resp.)
Copy or new edition? and Revised editions (LC-PCC PS for 2.1)
Preferred source of information (RDA 2.1.2.2-3 and 2.2)
A brief overview of some of the changes from AACR2 to RDA
RDA short checklists (Link is not yet redirected to Yale Library Metadata from Cataloging at Yale, 2024-04-24)
Specific areas of the record
Recording titles (RDA 2.3)
Statement of responsibility for titles (RDA 2.4)
Edition statement (RDA 2.5)
Production, publication, distribution & manufacture statements and copyright date (RDA 2.7-2.11)
Content, media, and carrier type (RDA 6.9, 3.2, 3.3 & MARC 336-338)
Extent and dimensions for notated music and text (from RDA 3.4 & 3.5)
Sound characteristics (RDA 3.16 & MARC 344)
Describing content (from RDA Chapter 7)
Publisher's and plate number for music (RDA 2.15.2 & 2.15.3)
Persons
Recording names (RDA 8.4-8.5)
Identifying, choosing, and recording preferred and variant names for persons (RDA 9.0-9.2)
Surnames that include an article and/or preposition (RDA F.11), including special instructions on entry element for Spanish and Portuguese surnames
Recording other attributes of persons (RDA 9.3-9.18)
Constructing access points and variant access points to represent persons (RDA 9.19-9.2)
LC/PCC practice for creating NARs for persons who use pseudonyms
Relationship designators
between a resource and persons, families, and corporate bodies associated with the resource (RDA Appendix I)
between works, expressions, manifestations (RDA Appendix J)
From PCC:
Preferred Titles
More External Resources
RDA and MARC
RDA to MARC bibliographic mapping (maps RDA elements to corresponding MARC 21 bibliographic elements; in RDA Toolkit)
Examples of MARC RDA record (from RDA Steering Committee) (in RDA Toolkit)
Presentations
RDA for music : popular, jazz, and world music audio recordings
A brief introduction to RDA for scores & sound recordings / Nancy Lorimer
RDA and sound recordings—a cataloging workshop / Kathy Glennan
RDA and music basics: scores (ALA webcast) / Kathy Glennan