Central Library

Nowadays, most information sources are published digitally and are available on the web. It is worth to say that storing and disseminating information on the web is easily possible, but retrieving such information is one of the challenges of users, so professionals in various fields, including librarians and web designers, are thinking about solutions to these types of problems.  Resource Description and Access (R.D.A.) Instructions have been developed by IFLA. This metadata format is compatible with Rules of Anglo-American Indexing (Second Edition). Such types of standards as RDA, RDF, METS, etc. have been taken to more efficiently describe information resources and to provide conceptual relationships between them in the web environment. 
The Central Library, Documentation Center and Museum of Shahid Beheshti University (SBU) and the Central Library and Documentation Center of Allameh Tabataba'i University (ATU) have collaborated to implement R.D.A. in the ATU and SBU libraries. The aim of this joint collaboration is accommodation with the latest rules and standards of description and also to make resources more accessible for users. 

RDA Minutes
RDA Workshops