The RDA board will host a series of webinars to discuss the impact of RDA on their cataloging and metadata practices and how their parts of the world are addressing the obstacles and challenges of official RDA.
The RSC is pleased to announce the publication of its first set of Template RDA Teaching Slides (download here).
At its meeting in Washington last week, the RSC set the dates for its meetings in 2025. They will all take place asynchronously via Basecamp with some synchronous Zoom meetings, including the following Public Sessions, to which anyone can register as an observer:
The RSC would like to thank everyone who attended its Public Session on Tuesday (12 November) and its Outreach Day yesterday (Wednesday 13 November).
The recording of the Outreach Day presentations is now available, with thanks to the Library of Congress:
The agenda for the Public Session of the RSC Meeting on 12 November 2024 is now available.
The following proposals will be discussed:
RSC Chair Renate Behrens and RSC Meeting host Judith Cannan would like to invite you to an outreach day at the Library of Congress / online on Wednesday 13 November.
The latest release to RDA Toolkit took place on September 29 and contains no significant changes to the standard. It does include corrections to the English, Finnish and French versions of the Toolkit. Policy statements have been added, with significant additions from Library and Archives Canada and the National Library of New Zealand.
The RDA Steering Committee (RSC) is keen to explore ways in which RDA is of interest and use to those documenting archival resources, and the synergy that can exist between RDA and other standards and guidelines for cataloguing and documentation.
RSC Chair Renate Behrens would like to thank RDA Board member Judith Cannan and her Library of Congress colleagues for hosting the RSC Meeting in November.
Are you interested in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cataloging? Do you wonder how to streamline the cataloging process by automating repetitive tasks and ensuring consistency in metadata creation? What is the impact, including potential uses and threats, of AI presents in the production of RDA?
