The Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA held its final meeting Friday morning. The public agenda was brief; most of the day was spent in executive session. Unresolved Fast Track and vocabulary entries The JSC decided that the Applied Materials (3.7) and Base Materials (3.6) vocabularies will be merged, as there is near complete […]
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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 4, 2015
The Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA continued its meeting Wednesday morning. The agenda consisted of proposals and discussion papers relating to various RDA entities. In the case of proposals, this report concentrates on the decisions rather than the discussion; this means that the reasons for the decisions may not always be clear. In […]
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. […]
Joint Steering Committee meeting, November 2, 2015
The Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA (JSC) began its 2015 meeting today. Preliminary note: This week’s blog posts are going to be an interesting experiment. At the last moment, my plans to travel to Edinburgh for the JSC meeting fell through and I was unable to attend. Fortunately, Kathy Glennan, the ALA Representative […]
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 […]
Joint Steering Committee meeting, November 4, 2014
The Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA began its public sessions on Tuesday morning. Housekeeping The session began with some housekeeping tasks. The JSC tentatively agreed that the 2015 JSC meeting would take place in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. In addition to being the home of the JSC Chair, Edinburgh was felt to offer opportunities […]
Joint Steering Committee meeting, November 3, 2014
The Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA (JSC) began its 2014 meeting today. The Committee consists of seven representatives from JSC constituencies: American Library Association: Kathy Glennan (University of Maryland) Australian Committee on Cataloguing: Ebe Kartus (Australian Catholic University) British Library: Alan Danskin Canadian Committee on Cataloguing: William Leonard (Library and Archives Canada) CILIP: […]