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About the JSC

The Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA (JSC) is responsible for maintaining RDA: Resource Description and Access. JSC was previously responsible for maintenance of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR), which RDA was developed to replace. The constituent organizations represented on the Joint Steering Committee are:
  • The American Library Association
  • The Australian Committee on Cataloguing
  • The British Library
  • The Canadian Committee on Cataloguing
  • CILIP: Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals

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.

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New JSC Chair for 2014-2015

Gordon Dunsire is the new Chair of JSC for 2014-2015, following his election as Chair-Elect at the JSC's meeting in November 2012. Gordon has been the CILIP representative to the JSC since 2012, and a member of the CILIP-BL Committee on RDA since 2003. He is a member of the FRBR Review Group and ISBD Linked Data Study Group, and chairs the IFLA Namespaces Technical Group.

2013 RDA Proposals, Discussion Papers, Etc.

The proposals, discussion papers, etc., related to revision and development of RDA from the JSC constituencies and others have been submitted for discussion at the November 4-8, 2013 JSC meeting in Washington, D.C., USA. A table of the documents is available for your use. The documents are posted in the constituency proposals section of this web site. JSC responses to the documents will be posted by early October. Constituency responses to the new proposals are due October 5, 2013.

New ALA JSC Member

Kathy Glennan joined the Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA (JSC) on July 1, 2013. She replaced John Attig as the representative of the American Library Association (ALA).

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