What happened to my favorite chapter on _____ [fill in the blank: Music, Continuing Resources, Cartographic materials, etc.]?
Over the years, the JSC experimented with several possible arrangements for describing materials that would have retained some division of instructions for type of content and type of resource. However, reviewers found the arrangement to be unworkable (especially for digital materials) because it would have required cataloguers to consult multiple chapters. RDA’s structure relates data elements more closely to both FRBR entities and user tasks and consists of 10 sections which focus firstly on recording attributes for FRBR entities, and then on recording relationships between these entities. Each section will contain general guidelines and a chapter for each entity. Each chapter will be associated with an FRBR user task. Special instructions for specific types of resources are included with the general instructions on the element involved. In the Web version of RDA, cataloguers will be able to locate easily all of the instructions pertinent to describing a certain category of resource
