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Another problem with defining something like the United States as an RDA Place entity is that its boundaries change over time. The entity boundary for Place is a change in location, defined as "A delimitation of the physical territory of a place." As a Place, the United States would be a succession of ...

Since the RDA glossary includes both "broader element, see element supertype" and "narrower element, see element subtype", I'd guess that the continued presence of "broader element" and "narrower element" in RDA is an oversight. They should be replaced by "element supertype" and "element subtype." I ...

I'm happy to announce that Dr. Robert Maxwell, Brigham Young University, has been appointed by Core as ALA representative (one of two) to the North American RDA Committee (NARDAC), replacing Dominique Bourassa, Yale University, former ALA representative and NARDAC chair. Dr., Maxwell is well known to ...

The manifestation statement element Manifestation: manifestation title and responsibility statement appears to have replaced "title of manifestation" from the original toolkit as the broader categorical term. The option is given to record "title of manifestation," "title proper" and "other title information" ...

The full download version of the "Alignment from RDA elements to MARC21 encodings" document currently featured on the News panel of the RDA Toolkit login screen includes mappings of multiple RDA elements to MARC 511 covering unstructured descriptions of different RDA entities (person, corporate body, ...

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