وداع با قواعد فهرستنويسي انگلو آمريكن: آر.دي.اي. ابزاري براي فهرست نويسي منابع ديجيتالي

A farewell to the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules: RDA: a tool for cataloguing of digital resources

The emergence and development of kinds of digital formats in the 21st century made cataloguing rules for printed formats less usable. In addition, traditional information sources have been emerged in numerous formats, transferring those to web-based and digital formats has reduced the prominence of library cataloguers in the organization of information. The second edition of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules doesnʹt have that much efficiency in resource description and organization of new sources so more review on this inadequate standard seems needed. The standard of Resource Description and Access (RDA) has been designed to meet current problems related to the organization of digital resources. This research provides a survey on the weak points and capabilities of the 2nd edition of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules and gives an introduction to the standard of Resource Description and Access (RDA) and discusses its goals and basic features. Some of the features of this standard are its adaptability with MARC21, Dublin core, FRBR (Functional "D Records) and FRDA (Functional Requirements for 3 Authority Data). information. Among numerous methods of indexing each has its own advantages and disadvantages, automatic indexing is one of the methods which not only makes available information searchable but also expands the capabilities of people in the age of information explosion and continuous growth of information especially in electronic format. The advancement and evolution of automatic indexing software, enhancing the process of indexing, merging the methods of manual and automatic indexing and reducing time and cost have made managers of databases eager to use technologies more and more. This paper gives an introduction to automatic index¬ing along with a presentation of expert viewpoints about the implicit comparison between the two methods of indexing (automatic and manual). Then follows a com¬prehensive introduction to automatic indexing software.