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Another issue is the role of transcription which was so important in AACR. In RDA the cataloguer will be able to “take what you see” on the resource without altering it. This will allow automated data capture and the re-use of metadata from other sources, issues very important to library managers in achieving cost-efficiencies. The issue is how to do this without making record matching and duplicate detection more complicated, and without losing the value-add provided by some of the existing instructions which standardise the data recorded.