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.
Title: Soft-deprecated parallel elements
Document Number: RSC/TechnicalWG/2026/5
Document Type: Proposal
Year: 2026
Status: RSC/TechnicalWG/2025/6 was published on 9 September 2026 for constituency review and discussion at the Public Session of the November 2026 RSC Meeting.
Title: Soft-deprecated “Note on” elements
Document Number: RSC/TechnicalWG/2026/5
Document Type: Proposal
Year: 2026
Status: RSC/TechnicalWG/2025/5 was published on 9 September 2026 for constituency review and discussion at the Public Session of the November 2026 RSC Meeting.
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.
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.
Title: Proposal to revise engraver agent, etc.
Document Number: RSC/TranslationsTLO/2026/3
Author/Constituency: Szabolcs Dancs, Translations Team Liaison Officer
Document Type: Proposal
Year: 2026
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).
Title: 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
Document Number: RSC/ExamplesEditor/2026/3
Document Type: Proposal
Year: 2026
Title: Proposal to revise guidance chapter section Introduction to RDA: Examples
Document Number: RSC/ExamplesEditor/2026/2
Document Type: Proposal
Year: 2026
Status: RSC/ExamplesEditor/2026/2 was published on 31 July 2026 for discussion at the November 2026 RSC Meeting. Formal responses were received between 28 September and 5 October and RSC/ExamplesEditor/2026/2/Summary was published on 5 October.