Resource Description and Access
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Resource Description and Access is a modern library cataloging standard that provides guidelines for describing and accessing information resources in both digital and physical formats.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Resource Description and Access canonical | 34 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T500178 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Resource Description and Access Context triple: [Library of Congress catalogers, useSystem, Resource Description and Access]
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A.
RFC 6241
RFC 6241 is the IETF standard that specifies the Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF) for managing and configuring network devices.
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B.
RESTCONF
RESTCONF is a RESTful protocol defined by the IETF for accessing and managing configuration and operational data on network devices using YANG data models.
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C.
RDFS
RDFS (RDF Schema) is a semantic web vocabulary language used to define the structure, classes, and properties of RDF data.
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D.
Finding: The Self-Describing Web
"Finding: The Self-Describing Web" is a W3C Technical Architecture Group document that explains how web resources should carry or link to enough metadata and semantics to allow automated agents and humans to understand and use them without prior agreement.
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E.
RFC 7234
RFC 7234 is an IETF specification that defines HTTP/1.1 caching semantics, including how responses may be stored, reused, and validated by caches.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Resource Description and Access Target entity description: Resource Description and Access is a modern library cataloging standard that provides guidelines for describing and accessing information resources in both digital and physical formats.
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A.
RFC 6241
RFC 6241 is the IETF standard that specifies the Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF) for managing and configuring network devices.
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B.
RESTCONF
RESTCONF is a RESTful protocol defined by the IETF for accessing and managing configuration and operational data on network devices using YANG data models.
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C.
RDFS
RDFS (RDF Schema) is a semantic web vocabulary language used to define the structure, classes, and properties of RDF data.
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D.
Finding: The Self-Describing Web
"Finding: The Self-Describing Web" is a W3C Technical Architecture Group document that explains how web resources should carry or link to enough metadata and semantics to allow automated agents and humans to understand and use them without prior agreement.
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E.
RFC 7234
RFC 7234 is an IETF specification that defines HTTP/1.1 caching semantics, including how responses may be stored, reused, and validated by caches.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cataloging standard
ⓘ
library metadata content standard ⓘ |
| abbreviation | RDA ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
digital resources
ⓘ
physical resources ⓘ |
| audience |
bibliographic agencies
ⓘ
catalogers ⓘ metadata librarians ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Functional Requirements for Authority Data
ⓘ
Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records ⓘ Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data ⓘ
linked to:
Functional Requirements for Authority Data
International Cataloguing Principles ⓘ |
| characteristic |
designed for digital environment
ⓘ
format-neutral ⓘ media-neutral ⓘ |
| compatibleWith |
BIBFRAME
ⓘ
MARC 21 ⓘ
linked to:
MARC standards
|
| developer | Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA ⓘ |
| documentation |
RDA Toolkit
ⓘ
linked to:
RDA
|
| field | library and information science ⓘ |
| focus | user tasks of finding, identifying, selecting, and obtaining resources ⓘ |
| goal |
to facilitate international sharing of bibliographic records
ⓘ
to improve consistency of bibliographic and authority data ⓘ to support description of emerging resource types ⓘ |
| governedBy |
RDA Board
ⓘ
linked to:
RDA
|
| hasComponent |
instructions for recording attributes of corporate bodies
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instructions for recording attributes of expressions ⓘ instructions for recording attributes of families ⓘ instructions for recording attributes of items ⓘ instructions for recording attributes of manifestations ⓘ instructions for recording attributes of persons ⓘ instructions for recording attributes of works ⓘ instructions for recording relationships between entities ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | RDA Steering Committee ⓘ |
| predecessor |
Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Second Edition
ⓘ
linked to:
Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules
|
| purpose |
to provide guidelines and instructions for describing information resources
ⓘ
to support resource discovery and access in library catalogs and metadata systems ⓘ |
| replaced | many cataloging practices based on AACR2 in libraries adopting RDA ⓘ |
| scope |
access points and relationships
ⓘ
authority data ⓘ descriptive cataloging ⓘ |
| shortNameOfPredecessor | AACR2 ⓘ |
| successorOf | Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules ⓘ |
| supports |
FRBR-based bibliographic models
ⓘ
authority control ⓘ description of all types of content and media ⓘ linked data applications ⓘ |
| usesConcept |
relationships between resources and agents
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relationships between works, expressions, manifestations, and items ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Resource Description and Access Description of subject: Resource Description and Access is a modern library cataloging standard that provides guidelines for describing and accessing information resources in both digital and physical formats.
Referenced by (34)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Library of Congress Policy and Standards Division
→
usesStandard
→
Resource Description and Access
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Library of Congress Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate
→
usesStandard
→
Resource Description and Access
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Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA
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responsibleForStandard
→
Resource Description and Access
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