RSC News

Cataloger Kate James is the instructor for the ALA's ongoing RDA Lab Series and author of RDA in Practice: A Workbook, which is now available for preorder in the United States.

The agenda for the upcoming RSC asynchronous meeting, to be held 12-15 April, has been posted. The agenda includes links to two updated standing working group charges (in draft form) which will be discussed at the meeting.

The quarterly meeting schedule for the RDA Steering Committee for 2021 is shown below. The meetings are held asynchronously using Basecamp software. Agendas and supporting materials will be posted on the RSC website three weeks before the meeting begins. Minutes are posted on the RSC website following the meeting.

Addendum: The final version of the agenda was published on 11 October 2020.

The in-person meeting of the RDA Steering Committee planned for October 2020 at the National Library of Israel has been shifted to a virtual meeting format due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The RSC thanks the National Library for their invitation and looks forward to holding our annual in-person meeting in Jerusalem at some point in the future.

The RDA Steering Committee (RSC) is pleased to announce that Damian Iseminger will succeed Gordon Dunsire as the Technical Team Liaison to the RSC and chair of the RSC's Technical Working Group; his two-year term starts January 2021.

The quarterly meeting schedule for the RDA Steering Committee for 2020 is:

The conversation continued at the 2019 ALA Midwinter Conference in Philadelphia between representatives of the RDA Steering Committee and the larger BIBFRAME community (which includes the Library of Congress/NDMSO, LD4P, Share-VDE, and the organizer group of the annual BIBFRAME workshops in Europe). A possible field of future cooperation is an approach to application profiles.

This announcement was posted on the RDA Toolkit blog on 15 October 2019:

Current Status

The RSC would like to thank the many people who responded about the RDA beta site through the feedback form and through other formal mechanisms such as regional representatives and task groups.