RDA Steering Committee meeting, November 7-11, 2016

The RDA Steering Committee begins its meetings in Frankfurt, Germany, on Monday, November 7. This year I will not be attending the meeting, and will not be posting a blog of the results. For information, please consult the RDA Steering Committee website, where an announcement of the outcomes of the meeting will be posted later […]

Joint Steering Committee meeting, November 5, 2015

The Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA continued its meeting Thursday morning.  The agenda consisted of reports and discussions with current and potential partners, along with a few revision proposals. RDA and DCRM2 Note:  An unusual number of observers were present for this session, many of them rare materials catalogers who will be participating […]

Joint Steering Committee meeting, November 3, 2015

The Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA continued its meeting Tuesday morning with a discussion of various papers dealing with modeling. Before I start, I want to warn you that these discussions are particularly challenging to summarize.  These were mostly discussion papers, they tend to be abstract, and very few specific decisions were made.  […]

Welcome … [2015 version]

Welcome to the 2015 version of my blog.  Here I will be posting reports on the 2015 meeting of the Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA (JSC).  The JSC meets annually to consider proposals for revision of the text of RDA: Resource Description and Access — an international standard for resource description and discovery.For […]

Joint Steering Committee meeting, November 7, 2014

The Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA concluded its week of meetings on Friday.  Most of the remaining agenda consisted on a group of documents that addressed various aspects of the broad concept of internationalization. 6JSC/CCC/Discussion/1: Internationalization and RDA Appendix A Appendix A consists of instructions on capitalization and includes a section of general […]

Joint Steering Committee meeting, November 6, 2014

The Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA continued its meeting Thursday morning.  The first proposal considered was part of Wednesday’s consideration of issues related to manifestation and item. 6JSC/MusicWG/5: Revision proposal for RDA 3.4.3.2 and 3.21.2.5 The proposal dealt with two instructions on recording the extent of a resource consisting of a score and […]

Joint Steering Committee meeting, November 5, 2014

The Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA continued its meeting Wednesday morning. Subject 6JSC/TechnicalWG/3: High-level subject relationship in RDA This paper presented a series of recommendations dealing with technical issues relating to the addition of a new “subject” relationship in RDA. The JSC agreed to add a new “Subject” relationship element to RDA.  The […]

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