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RDA Toolkit Release – May 14, 2013

Tue, 07 May 2013 - 2:20 pm e — jhennelly

A new release of RDA Toolkit was published on May 14, 2013. When there is a new release for RDA Toolkit, it is made on the second Tuesday of the month. Releases typically contain updates to content and metadata, enhancements to RDA Toolkit functionality, and fixes to existing bugs. You can subscribe to our RSS development feed to get notification of releases.

The details of the May release follow.

RDA-159 Change linking practice for cross references to a range of instructions

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 - 11:09 am e — jhennelly

Use Case

In RDA Toolkit, a cross-reference to another instruction is a hyperlink with a label consisting of the instruction number followed by an RDA "button". The button is part of the hyperlink. This becomes inconsistent when the cross-reference is to a range of instructions, for example 6.28.1.9–6.28.1.11 RDA (from 6.28.4.4). This is actually two hyperlinks: "6.28.1.9", and "6.28.1.11 RDA". This presumably will confuse many users, who click the RDA button and expect to be taken to the first instruction in the range; instead the link is to the last instruction.

RDA-133 Add display of links to the User Preferences in the Profile page

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 - 12:17 pm e — jhennelly

Use Case

As we add more and more links to outside resources to RDA Toolkit (for example the links we are adding to the AACR2 display, see RDA-125), users would like to be able to turn off links that are not of interest in order to unclutter the display.

RDA-125 Add links to AACR2 display

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 - 12:08 pm e — jhennelly

Use Case

Beginning in April 2013, AACR2 will only be available online at RD Toolkit. Cataloger Desktop subscribers will need a subscription to RDA Toolkit to access the AACR2 rules. Frequent users of AACR2 on Catalogers Desktop are used the interface provided on that site and and will have similar expectations for AACR2 on RDA Toolkit.

RDA Toolkit Release – December 11, 2012

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 - 11:13 am e — jhennelly

A new release of RDA Toolkit was published on December 11, 2012. When there is a new release for RDA Toolkit, it is made on the second Tuesday of the month. Releases typically contain updates to content and metadata, enhancements to RDA Toolkit functionality, and fixes to existing bugs. You can subscribe to our RSS news feed to get notification of releases.

The details of the December release follow.

RDA-138 Replace AACR2 Example Images with Text

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 - 5:10 pm e — tlinker

Use Case

Examples are in (not text).

RDA-128 Allow highlighting of PDF downloads of RDA text

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 - 11:19 am e — jhennelly

Use Case

Users would like to add highlighting to the PDF format of RDA text.

RDA-127 Allow consortial members to share user-created documents

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 - 11:07 am e — jhennelly

Use Case

It would be very useful for groups such as a consortium to be able to create and share consortial policies/workflows, etc. across institutions without sharing them globally with all RDA Toolkit users.

RDA Toolkit Release - October 9, 2012

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 - 10:09 am e — jhennelly

A new release was pushed to the live site of RDA Toolkit on October 9, 2012. When there is a new release for RDA Toolkit, it is made on the second Tuesday of the month. Releases typically contain updates to content and metadata, enhancements to RDA Toolkit functionality, and fixes to existing bugs. You can subscribe to our RSS news feed to get notification of releases.

The details of the Ocotber release follow.

RDA-116 Remove highlighted hits in examples when examples are excluded from search

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 - 2:45 pm e — jhennelly

Use Case

Users conducting an "Exclude Examples" search are confused by the presence of highlighted hits in the examples when clicking through to a search result. The highlighting of search terms is a process done separately from the search, so the presence of highlighted search terms in an example does not factor in the determination of search results. However, the highlighting in the examples is misleading and undermines user confidence in the search.