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.
RDA Board Chair Colleen Barbus and RSC Chair Renate Behrens are pleased to make available the Minutes of the latest Joint Meeting of the RDA Board and the RSC.
Following approval from the RDA Board at its December Meeting and from the RSC at its November Meeting, the White Paper Considering AI in the Growth of RDA has been published as RSC/Papers/2025/1.
At December's meeting of the RDA Board, the specific dates for the countdown clock were set as follows:
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.
Friday, June 28, 2024
9:00am -11:30am
Convention Center Room 30 ABCDE
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.
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, which is responsible for setting the strategic direction for the development of RDA, will meet next month in London. In anticipation of the April meeting the Board recently announced the current appointments for the April meeting.
Effective immediately, Keri Cascio will represent the American Library Association (ALA) on the Board of Directors for Resource, Description and Access (RDA), a unified cataloging standard designed for the global, digital world and metadata users in many environments.