Full draft of RDA

Drafts and proposals are not an official part of RDA until they have received final approval from JSC and have been formally published.

The Full draft of RDA is now available in PDF format from: www.rdatoolkit.org/constituencydraft/.

For background information, see the Cover letter [PDF format]

The comment period closed on 2 February 2009, see the responses

The JSC have set up a workspace to record typographical errors, errors in cross-references, etc. in the full draft: https://wiki.nla.gov.au//x/MQBS

The cover letter of the draft refers to a number of JSC documents. Links have been provided below (PDF format):

• 5JSC/RDA/Full draft/Table of contents. Note: Replaced by TOC file on a temporary constituency review site. For the Table of Contents, see www.rdatoolkit.org/constituencydraft/
• 5JSC/RDA/Full draft/Addenda
• 5JSC/RDA/Full draft/Addenda/Appendix D
• 5JSC/RDA/Full draft/Workflows/Book
• 5JSC/RDA/Full draft/Workflows/Transcription

• Strategic Plan for RDA 2005-2009
• RDA Objectives and Principles document
• RDA Scope and Structure document
• RDA Element Analysis
• RDA Editor's Guide

• 5JSC/LC/12/LC follow-up (Proposed revision of RDA chap. 6, Additional instructions for musical works and expressions)

• 5JSC/Editor/2 (RDA Database Implementation Scenarios)
• 5JSC/Chair/14 (Using RDA with bibliographic and authority records)
• 5JSC/Chair/15 (RDA Core elements and FRBR user tasks)
• 5JSC/Sec/6 (Issues deferred until after the first release of RDA)
• 5JSC/Sec/7 (Changes to AACR2 instructions)