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RDA Around the World

The latest issue of Cataloging & Classification Quarterly is a special issue titled "RDA around the world". The thirteen articles cover aspects of RDA implementation from initial consideration to full translation, with perspectives from Canada, China, German-speaking countries, Iran, Israel, Mexico, the Philippines, Singapore, Turkey, and French and Spanish translation activity.

Presentations on RDA Status and Perspectives 2014

The presentations given at the IFLA Satellite Meeting RDA – Resource Description and Access – status and perspectives 2014 are available on the website of the German National Library at http://www.dnb.de/DE/Standardisierung/International/iflaSatelliteMeetingProgramm.html.

RDA Strategy Consultation 2014

Attention is drawn to the consultation into the future governance of RDA recently announced by the Committee of Principals.

2014 JSC Meeting

The Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA will meet November 3-7, 2014 in Washington, D.C.

Sessions will be held from 8:30-17:30 at the American Library Association's Washington office. Observers are welcome at open sessions and are encouraged to attend. The committee meets in closed executive sessions at the beginning and end of the week.

RDA Registry Website

The RDA Toolkit Technical Committee has updated the website of rdaregistry.info, the namespace of the RDA element sets. The website provides access to the element sets as well as examples and datasets which use RDA elements, and maps between RDA elements and other namespaces. The maps include one between elements for RDA relationship designators and the MARC relator codes.

Constituency Proposals

Add text here explaining process (proposals, responses, sec finals) and constituencies and communiites (examples, EURIG, music group, etc.).

You can search the the Proposal by constituency or year.

Link to By Constituency view

Link to By Year view

Explanation of JSC Document Numbering

Base JSC document numbers consist of 3 parts: [Sequence designation] / [Originator of proposal or Descriptive Title] / [Proposal number or designation] For example:
  • 5JSC/LC/7 (The 7th proposal from LC in the 5JSC sequence. The 5JSC numbering sequence will be used until the publication of RDA.)
  • 5JSC/Annual report/2005 (2005 annual report)
If there are responses or follow-ups, the number is extended: