2014 Approved RDA Proposals
The final versions of the proposals approved by the Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA during and after its November 2014 meeting have been posted on this web site.
2014 JSC Meeting Documents: Outcomes
The Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA discussed 47 proposals and discussion papers at its November 2014 meeting.
Jane-athon Success
The world's first full Jane-athon took place January 30, 2015 in Chicago during ALA Midwinter. This hackathon for creating RDA linked data about the works of Jane Austen and related resources was attended by over 60 delegates from 55 institutions. Individually, or in clusters led by experienced, knowledgeable volunteers, the delegates used RIMMF (RDA in Many Metadata Formats) to create RDA/FRBR entity records from imported MARC 21 records or as born-RDA, and link them using RDA designators. RIMMF is an editor for data that conforms to RDA Toolkit and the RDA Registry.
JSC Takes Pragmatic Approach to Period of Change
The JSC has discussed the impact of various factors on the content and structure of RDA.
Spanish RDA ready for publication
UPDATE: The Spanish translation of RDA is now available. All subscribers can access the Spanish translation as well as all other language versions of RDA hosted on the toolkit. Learn more about Spanish RDA on RDA Toolkit. (Updated 2015.03.15)
RDA Committee of Principals Announces Governance Review
At their 2014 meeting the Committee of Principals (CoP) [now RDA Board] created a new vision and agreed four Strategic Priorities that will form the basis of their Strategic Plan 2015-2020.
2013 JSC Meeting Documents: Outcomes
The Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA discussed 48 proposals and discussion papers at its November 2013 meeting. A table with a summary of the actions taken by the JSC is available for consultation until the final versions of the approved proposals are posted on this site in early February 2014.
Publication of the RDA Element Vocabularies
The Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA (JSC), Metadata Management Associates, and ALA Publishing (on behalf of the co-publishers of RDA) are pleased to announce that the RDA elements and relationship designators have been published in the Open Metadata Registry (OMR) as Resource Description Framework (RDF) element sets suitable for linked data and semantic Web applications.
New CILIP JSC member
Galen Jones joined the Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA (JSC) on January 1, 2014. He replaced Gordon Dunsire, now the Chair of JSC, as the representative of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP).
Outcomes of the 2013 JSC Meeting
Held in Washington, D.C., USA, November 4-8, 2013
The Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA (JSC) met at American Library Association Washington Office, in Washington, D.C., USA, from November 4-8, 2013. Troy Linker and James Hennelly, representing ALA Publishing, also attended; eleven other observers also attended the public sessions of the meeting.
