RDA element sets

RDA Reference element sets include:

an element set of classes representing the RDA entities:
- Agent, Collective Agent, Expression, Item, Manifestation, Person, and Work, taken from the IFLA Library Reference Model (LRM).
- Corporate Body and Family, taken from the previous Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD).
an element set for each of the RDA Work properties, Expression properties, Manifestation properties, Item properties, Place properties, Timespan properties, and Nomen properties, representing the entity attributes and relationships.
an element set for the RDA Agent properties including the RDA entities Collective Agent, Person, Family, and Corporate Body, representing the entity attributes and relationships.
an element set for the RDA Entity properties as a super-entity, representing the entity attributes and relationships.

RDA Reference value vocabularies are used in RDA applications, including RDA Toolkit.

An Unconstrained element set is available for use by non-LRM applications.

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