For Constituency Review: Two Proposals from the RDA Examples Editor
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).
Jessica (pictured) was asked to prepare a follow-up proposal to deal with issues raised by the Technical Team Liaison Officer (RSC/ExamplesEditor/2026/1/TWG) and Europe Representative (RSC/ExamplesEditor/2026/1/EURIG), and we are happy to publish this today as RSC/ExamplesEditor/2026/3 -- Proposal to add condition options regarding preferred recording source in Data provenance: Recording a source of metadata that is a manifestation that is being described.
We are also happy to publish RSC/ExamplesEditor/2026/2 -- Proposal to revise guidance chapter section Introduction to RDA: Examples. This proposal recommends the addition of a new paragraph in the guidance chapter section Introduction to RDA: Examples to clarify how and when string encoding schemes are used in examples in the RDA Toolkit.
Your Regional Representatives will share the date by which they need to receive your comments in order to compile them for the July Meeting, which will take place on Tuesday 17 November at 19:00 - 21:00 UTC. (There is a handy time converter here). As a reminder, here are their contact details:
- If you are based in Europe, your Regional Representative is Dr Ahava Cohen. If you are part of EURIG, please feedback in the usual way. If you are not a EURIG member yet, please contact Ahava directly: Ahava.Cohen@rdatoolkit.org
- If you are based in Latin America or the Caribbean, your Regional Representative is Dr Filiberto Felipe Martinez Arellano. If you are part of ALyC, please feedback in the usual way. If you are not an ALyC member yet, please contact Felipe directly: felipe@rdatoolkit.org
- If you are based in North America, your Regional Representative is Trina Soderquist. If you are part of NARDAC, please feedback in the usual way. If you are not a NARDAC member yet, please contact Trina directly in the first instance: tsod@rdatoolkit.org
- If you are based in Oceania, your Regional Representative is Jack Ennis Butler. If you are part of ORDAC, please feedback in the usual way. If you are not an ORDAC member yet, please contact Jack directly: jack@rdatoolkit.org
- If you are not based in any of these Regions (i.e. you are based in Asia or Africa), please contact the Wider Community Engagement Officer (WCEO) Elect, Dr Getaneh Alemu. He will be happy to hear responses from members of the RDA community from these regions: getaneh@rdatoolkit.org