RDA section 1.6 Transcription – RDA section 1.6 instructs one to transcribe an element as it appears following guidelines for capitalization, numerals, etc. Options have been added to provide some flexibility in this area by allowing elements to be transcribed according to in-house manuals/published style manuals or by accepting the element as it appears when it has been scanned, etc., from a digital source. MARBI may wish to consider whether there is a need to distinguish between different approaches to recording data.