Teaching RDA in the LIS Classroom: Report and Webinar
In September 2021, Elisa Sze of the University of Toronto was appointed to the position of Education and Orientation Officer for the RDA Steering Committee (RSC).
RDA Steering Committee (RSC)
Call for Participation: Archives Working Group
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.
RDA Today - Outreach Event in Washington DC (and online)
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.
Minutes of the July 2024 RSC Meeting and Publication of RSC/ExtentWG/2024/1/rev2
The Minutes of the RSC Meeting in July (RSC/Minutes/469-482) are available on the RSC website and, with permanent URI, on ALAIR.
Survey on AI in Cataloging Open for Contributions
Dr Ahava Cohen (Chair) and the other members* of the newly-formed Joint RDA Board and RSC Working Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI) are very keen to hear the views of the cataloging community on the use of Artificial Intelligence in cataloging.
Survey on Soft-Deprecated Terms
During the 3R Project, several RDA elements were identified as being redundant with other elements or were considered to be too granular in scope.
How to Propose a Change to RDA
The “Submit Feedback” link in the official RDA Toolkit enables users to provide information about typos, errors, and broken links, as well as suggested changes to the text. Some of this feedback has resulted in updates to RDA. But for more significant changes to RDA, cataloging communities have another venue to suggest modifications: the RDA change proposal process.
Practical Implications: A Look at Cataloguing a Book Using the New RDA
On August 21 of this year, the European RDA Interest Group, along with the IFLA Cataloguing Section and the IFLA Committee on Standards, sponsored an IFLA World Library and Information Congress satellite meeting in Thessaloniki, Greece, at the Central Library of Aristotle University.
News from the RSC Meeting
The RDA Steering Committee (RSC) met in October on the campus of McGill University in Montréal, Québec. This week the RSC posted key documents describing the events and outcomes of that meeting. The most important outcome of the meeting is the announcement that the English language version of the revised RDA standard will stabilize in April 2019.
