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RDA Resources and Training

This guide is used by the cataloging department of Mississippi State University for internal RDA training. It includes resources and local policies that will be of interest to the Mississippi Library Partnership.

FRBR Entities and Relationships (WEMI)

Entities

-Bibliographic

—Work, Expression, Manifestation, Item (WEMI)

  • Work: distinct intellectual or artistic creation
    •   Shakespeare's Hamlet
  • Expression: intellectual or artistic realization of a work in the form of alphanumeric, musical, or choreographic notation, sound, image, object, movement, etc.
    • Russian translation of Hamlet
    • Audiobook version of Hamlet
    • Videorecording of a production of Hamlet
  • Manifestation: physical embodiment of an expression of a work
    • Hamlet published by Penguin Books
    • German translation published by Feuer und Schlage
    • Audio CD of an audiobook
    • Streaming video of a Hamlet production
    • Special DVD re-issue of Hamlet
  • Item: exemplification of a manifestation
    • Copy of Hamlet held by the library
    • Second copy in the library signed by the editor
    • Audiobook of Hamlet in the library missing CD 4

Attributes

Attributes or characteristics

  • Work
    • Title
    • Form
    • Date associated with the work
  • Persons
    • Name
    • Date of birth
    • Place of birth
  • Corporate body
    • Date associated with corporate body
    • Name of corporate body

Relationships

Relationships

  • Supports FRBR user tasks: Find, Identify, Select, Obtain
  • Among group 1 entities
  • Among group 2 entities
  • Between group 1 and group 2 entities

RDA Core Elements

Core

  • Mandatory for a national level record
    •  Title proper

Core if

  • Mandatory depending on the situation

Not core

  • Cataloger's judgment or local policy