RSC News

RSC Examples Editor Jessica Grzegorski (pictured) and Education and Orientation Officer Elisa Sze are looking forward to welcoming participants to a free online workshop on Training and Examples for Official RDA on Thursday 19 November at 19:00 - 21:00 UTC (There is a handy time converter

ORDAC (the Oceania RDA Committee) has delivered a series of three webinars that may be of interest to anyone planning to move from Original RDA in MARC to Official RDA. 

The RSC is very pleased to announce the appointment of Marcell Ottó Ormándy as Translations Team Liaison Officer Elect. Marcell will succeed Szabolcs Dancs as Translations Team Liaison Officer and Chair of the Translations Working Group on 1 January 2027, following a period of preparation which will include observing the RSC November Meeting and the monthly Executive Group Meetings.

Although there is no in-person meeting of the RSC this year, we are pleased to announce that our usual outreach and training event will go ahead on Thursday 19 November at 19:00 - 21:00 UTC (There is a handy time converter here). 

Technical Team Liaison Officer Chris Holden (pictured) has submitted the final two proposals dealing with soft-deprecated terms for discussion in the Public Session of the November Meeting of the RSC. 

The RDA Steering Committee has approved publication of the minutes of the April Meeting. 

You can access them on the Minutes page of the website or on ALAIR.

As the latest step in its work considering the use of AI in RDA cataloguing, the Joint RDA Board / RSC Working Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI) is seeking volunteer libraries / cataloguing organizations to help test an Application Profile for AI Processes. 

Observers at the RSC Public Session on 28 July may recall that the RSC approved the addition of terms for wood engraver, etc. and asked Translations Team Liaison Officer Szabolcs Dancs (pictured) to prepare a proposal to change the definition of engraver agent, etc. to make it clear that it is for intaglio techniques. 

In its July Public Session, voting members of the RSC approved RDA Examples Editor Jessica Grzegorski's proposal to revise the preferred order of recording sources for early printed resources in Data provenance: Recording a source of metadata that is a manifestation that is being described (RSC/ExamplesEditor/2026/1/decisions).

A very warm welcome to our July Meeting from RSC Chair Renate Behrens (pictured).