The Rules of Decision Act mandates the application of substantive state law in cases heard in U.S. federal courts sitting in diversity , except where state law is preempted by federal law. The U.S. Supreme Court in Swift v. Tyson (1842) originally read this Act of Congress as limited to state statutory law, but later overturned Swift in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins (1938) and instead held that the Rules of Decision Act requires the application of state law including case law originating from state courts .
19-524: RDA may refer to: Laws [ edit ] Rules of Decision Act , 1789, United States Racial Discrimination Act 1975 , Australia Organisations [ edit ] Government bodies [ edit ] Rawalpindi Development Authority , Pakistan (founded 1989) Redevelopment agency , a type of municipal department in the United States responsible for urban renewal Regional development agency ,
38-616: A Dietary Reference Intake Representational difference analysis , a technique used to find sequence differences in two genomic or cDNA samples Registered dental assistant Relative dentin abrasivity , a measure of toothpaste's effects on tooth dentin Computing [ edit ] Remote Database Access , a protocol Robotic data automation , the automation of tasks Remote diagnostic agent, an Oracle database diagnostic tool Other uses in science and mathematics [ edit ] Rebuildable Dripping Atomizer , where liquid
57-606: A British charity Riding for the Disabled Association , a British equestrian charity Rural Development Academy , an institution in Bangladesh People [ edit ] Rafael dos Anjos (born 1984), Brazilian mixed martial artist Richard Dean Anderson (born 1950), American actor Science, technology and mathematics [ edit ] Biology and medicine [ edit ] Recommended Dietary Allowance, one of several recommendations referred to as
76-522: A class of local body in England (1998–2010) Road Development Authority , Sri Lanka (founded 1971) Other organisations [ edit ] Rassemblement Démocratique Africain (1946–1958), a political party in French West Africa Reader's Digest Association , an American publisher Research Data Alliance , a research community organisation started in 2013 Revolving Doors Agency ,
95-599: A library cataloguing standard Resources Development Administration , a fictional megacorporation in the Avatar films Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title RDA . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=RDA&oldid=1221938837 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
114-653: A print format. RDA training materials and texts are available online and in print. RDA is a package of data elements, guidelines, and instructions for creating library and cultural heritage resource metadata that are well-formed according to international models for user-focused linked data applications. The underlying conceptual models for RDA are the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD), and Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (FRSAD) maintained by IFLA , and will be compliant with
133-678: Is a standard for descriptive cataloging initially released in June 2010, providing instructions and guidelines on formulating bibliographic data . Intended for use by libraries and other cultural organizations such as museums and archives, RDA is the successor to Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules , Second Edition (AACR2). RDA emerged from the International Conference on the Principles & Future Development of AACR held in Toronto in 1997. It
152-597: Is currently being translated into these languages as well as others including Arabic, Danish, Dutch, Greek, Hebrew, Swedish, and Vietnamese. In March 2012 the Library of Congress announced that it would fully implement RDA cataloging by the end of March 2013. Library and Archives Canada fully implemented the standard in September 2013. British Library , National Library of Australia , and Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and other national libraries have since implemented RDA . In
171-614: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Rules of Decision Act The Act originated as Section 34 of the Judiciary Act of 1789 . It is now codified, in slightly different form, in 28 U.S.C. § 1652 , as follows: The laws of the several states, except where the Constitution or treaties of the United States or Acts of Congress otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in civil actions in
190-570: Is dripped directly onto a coil Redundancy analysis , a method for ordination in statistics Retro-Diels–Alder reaction (rDA), a chemical reaction Research and Development Array , a cosmic ray detector development project Research Data Australia, a web portal for access to national research data, within Australian Research Data Commons Other uses [ edit ] Redland railway station , Bristol, England (CRS code: RDA) Resource Description and Access ,
209-831: Is published jointly by the American Library Association , the Canadian Federation of Library Associations , and the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) in the United Kingdom. Maintenance of RDA is the responsibility of the RDA Steering Committee (RSC). As of 2015, RSC is undergoing a transition to an international governance structure, expected to be in place in 2019. RDA instructions and guidelines are available through RDA Toolkit, an online subscription service, and in
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#1732844564344228-685: The Library Reference Model , the IFLA standard that consolidates them. RDA Vocabularies is a representation of the RDA entities, elements, relationship designators, and controlled terms in RDF (Resource Description Framework). The Vocabularies are intended to support linked data applications using RDA. They are maintained in the Open Metadata Registry, a metadata registry , and released via GitHub and
247-726: The RDA Board, announced its commitment to internationalization of RDA in 2015. This is reflected in the new governance structure with representation based on the United Nations Regional Groups , comprising, Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, North America, and Oceania. As of May 2017, the RDA Toolkit has been translated from English into Catalan , Chinese, Finnish, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. RDA Reference
266-620: The RDA Registry. The human-readable labels, definitions, and other textual annotations in the Vocabularies are known as RDA Reference. The RDA Reference data are used in the production of RDA Toolkit content. The RDA Vocabularies and RDA Reference are available under an open license. RDA is in step with the Statement of International Cataloguing Principles published by IFLA in 2009, and updated in 2016. The Committee of Principals for RDA, now
285-489: The United States, the cataloguing community expressed reservations about the new standard in regard to both the business case for RDA in a depressed economy and the value of the standard's stated goals. Michael Gorman , one of the authors of AACR2, was particularly vocal in expression of his opposition to the new guidelines, claiming that RDA was poorly written and organized, and that the plan for RDA unnecessarily abandoned established cataloging practices. Others felt that RDA
304-616: The courts of the United States, in cases where they apply. The interpretation of this language, especially the meaning of the phrase "the laws of the several states", was the central issue in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins . The Australian Judiciary Act 1903 borrowed verbiage from the Rules of Decision Act. This United States federal legislation article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Resource Description and Access Resource Description and Access ( RDA )
323-564: The results of their testing. The test found that RDA to some degree met most of the goals that the JSC (Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA) put forth for the new code and failed to meet a few of those goals. The Coordinating Committee admitted that they "wrestled with articulating a business case for implementing RDA", nevertheless the report recommended that RDA be adopted by the three national libraries, contingent on several improvements being made. The earliest possible date for implementation
342-473: Was given as January 2013, as the consensus emerging from the analysis of the test data showed that while there were discernible benefits to implementing RDA, these benefits would not be realized without further changes to current cataloging practices, including developing a successor to the MARC format. Several other institutions were involved in the RDA test. Many of these institutions documented their findings in
361-677: Was too rooted in past practices and therefore was not a vision for the future. In response to these concerns, the three United States national libraries (Library of Congress, National Library of Medicine , and the National Agricultural Library ) organized a nationwide test of the new standard. On 13 June 2011, the Library of Congress, the National Agricultural Library, and the National Library of Medicine released
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