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RDA Board at ALA Annual Conference jhennelly Tue, 03/05/2024 - 17:14

The RDA Board, an international group of library professionals, is responsible for setting the strategic direction for the development of RDA and ensuring good governance of the project. They also have a role to play in raising the profile of RDA in their region. The RDA Board will hold it's annual meeting in San Diego on June 26 and 27, and they will stay for a preconference event at the ALA Annual Conference (June 27- July 2).

NARDAC Spring Update Forum 2024

Do you have any questions about the training for the official RDA? What are the most challenging aspects of RDA trainings with the RDA Toolkit? Compared with the original RDA, how can one trainer adapt themselves and train others to use the official RDA Toolkit? If you have those questions, please come to the 2024 NARDAC Spring Update Forum.

Making RDA Work For You: Leveraging the Semantic Coherency of the RDA Element Set jhennelly Mon, 02/26/2024 - 15:33

This presentation by Damian Iseminger, the Technical Committee Liaison Officer to the RDA Steering Committee, the structure of RDA, the relationship between entities and their elements, and how this structure might inform decisions about what elements to use. The presentation was given online on February 26, 2024. The recording includes the full presentation, plus the Q&A session that followed immediately after. The video recording and slides are linked below.

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What's New (and Upcoming) with RDA Toolkit

James Hennelly, director of RDA Toolkit, will host a free webinar on December 19th. He will review recent updates to the Toolkit and preview some changes that will appear in the next year. Half the allotted time will be held open for questions from attendees. The webinar will be recorded and posted to the RDA Toolkit YouTube channel.

What's New (and Upcoming) with RDA Toolkit

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September 2023 RDA Toolkit Release

A new release was posted to RDA Toolkit last week. The September 2023 release is a minor one in terms of changes to the English text (corrections to typos and formatting, changes for consistency, and fixes of broken links), but there  are two significant updates – the introduction of a new alternative Guidance menu and completion of the French language translation of official RDA.

Finding Your Way with RDA

The Oceania region RDA Committee (ORDAC) is pleased to present a series of three webinars exploring concepts from the Official RDA Guidance chapters, presented by ORDAC member and Oceania RSC representative Charlotte Christensen based at the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa.

Countdown Clock for Original RDA Toolkit Set for May 2026

The RDA Board in consultation with the Copyright Holders of RDA have determined that a hard date for the removal of the original RDA Toolkit website is needed. This determination was made against a backdrop of giving user communities plenty of time for planning in their transition to official RDA. The Board plans to begin a countdown clock in May 2026 (specific date still to be determined), with the removal of the original Toolkit taking place a year later—May 2027. This plan was presented to the RDA Steering Committee last week, and the RSC fully supported this decision.

RDA Webinar series from CORE

CORE will present a four-part webinar series “The New and Official RDA Toolkit: A Practical Approach” this month. Originally presented as an in-person preconference for the 2022 Core Forum, this webinar is geared toward catalogers, metadata librarians, and anyone interested in Resource Description and Access (RDA). Core members and non-members are welcome to attend.

Now Available: August 1st Webinar and Usage Statistics

ALA Digital Reference's webinar series continued Monday, August 1, 2022 at 11 AM CT/Chicago time with Damian Iseminger's virtual iteration of his #ALAAC22 program RDA Linked Data Forum. Damian presented on how RDA and RDA Toolkit are now optimized for linked data environments in the wake of the 3R Project and answered related questions from the audience live. The webinar recording is now available.