A weblog following developments around the world in FRBR: Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records.

Maintained by William Denton, Web Librarian at York University. Suggestions and comments welcome at wtd@pobox.com.


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RDA coming in November

Posted by: William Denton, 23 June 2009 11:43 am
Categories: RDA

E-mail announcement from Nathalie Schulz sent to the rda-l mailing list:

News from the Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA:

  • Finalization of RDA text: The RDA text was handed to the co-publishers on schedule on 22 June. RDA is scheduled to be released at the end of November 2009.
  • New Chair: Alan Danskin will be the JSC Chair from 1 July 2009. Danskin is the Metadata and Bibliographic Standards Coordinator at the British Library.
  • During July, the JSC Secretariat will move to the British Library: jscsecretary@bl.uk
  • Web site: The JSC Web site has moved to http://www.rda-jsc.org/. There are redirections in place from the old site to pages on the new site explaining the change.

I haven’t been keeping up with everything about Resource Description and Access, the new cataloguing rules, because there’s an awful lot going on and I find it a bit confusing. When it’s done and released then we can, I hope, all see how it implements FRBR and how we can use it. I think access will be by subscription only, though. Perhaps things like the RDF schemas, which will be public, will be enough.