Welcome to the April 2026 Meeting of the RSC
A very warm welcome to our April Meeting from RSC Chair Renate Behrens (pictured).
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April Public Session, Including Presentation on Danish Implementation
RSC Chair Renate Behrens is looking forward to welcoming Camilla Riis Petersen, Bibliographic Consultant, DBC Digital (pictured), to speak at the next Public Session of the RSC, on Tuesday 28 April at 18:00 - 20:00 UTC (There is a handy time converter here).
RSC/TechnicalWG/2026/2
Title: Soft-deprecated elements: “Details” elements
Document Number: RSC/TechnicalWG/2026/2
Document Type: Proposal
Year: 2026
Status: RSC/TechnicalWG/2026/2 was published on 25 February for discussion at the April 2026 Meeting of the RSC.
RSC/TechnicalWG/2026/1
Title: Soft-deprecated elements related to Manifestation: material
Document Number: RSC/TechnicalWG/2026/1
Document Type: Proposal
Year: 2026
Status: RSC/TechnicalWG/2026/1 was published on 23 February and was approved with amendments in the Public Session of the RSC on Tuesday 28 April 2026.
RSC/TranslationsTLO/2026/1
Title: Proposal on adding new elements, applicable to rare and old materials, to the RDA Toolkit, the corresponding new definitions to the Glossary, and the corresponding new properties to RDA Registry
Document Number: RSC/TranslationsTLO/2026/1
Author/Constituency: Szabolcs Dancs, Translations Team Liaison Officer
Document Type: Proposal
Year: 2026
Watch Now: RDA in Europe and the World
Couldn't make it to our recent webinar? You can catch up with all the presentations on the RDA Toolkit YouTube.
Presentations and Outreach 2026
RSC members deliver presentations across the world, in person or online. You can find out about current members on their individual About pages, each of which is linked from the RSC Members page.
Here is a list of this year's presentations and outreach, in reverse chronological order:
Save the Times: RSC Public Sessions April - November 2026
Following our announcement of the dates of the RSC Public Sessions in November 2025, we are happy to confirm the following times for the meetings, with thanks to new RSC Members Trina Soderquist (North America) and Chris Oliver (RDA Board Chair, ex officio) for confirming their availability:
A Welcome to Trina Soderquist and Welcome Back to Chris Oliver
At last night's Synchronous Meeting of the RSC, we were delighted to welcome Trina Soderquist (pictured) to her first RSC Meeting.
RSC/TechnicalWG/2025/1
Title: Discussion paper on soft-deprecated parallel elements
Document Number: RSC/TechnicalWG/2025/1
Document Type: Discussion Paper
Year: 2025