News and announcements

8 Aug 2008 There will be an IFLA satellite meeting on RDA in Québec City, Canada. Gordon Dunsire will give a presentation on RDA vocabularies and concepts.
7 Jul 2008 The CILIP-BL Committee on AACR changed its name to the CILIP-BL Committee on RDA, to reflect the name of its parent body, the Joint Steering Group for Development of RDA.
17 Jun 2008 Gordon Dunsire gave a presentation on Resource description and access for the digital world to the 2008 International DOI Foundation open meeting: Resource access for a digital world, Brussels, Belgium.
16 Apr 2008 Ann Chapman gave a presentation on RDA: cataloguing for the twenty-first century to the Library Association of Ireland and CILIP Ireland 40th joint annual conference held in Athlone, Republic of Ireland.
13-22 Apr 2008 The Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA met in Chicago, USA. Outcomes and an Executive summary of the meeting are available.
2 Apr 2008 Ann Chapman, Alan Danskin and Gordon Dunsire will repeat the presentations on RDA: the state of play, RDA: Implementation schedule, and RDA: benefits and opportunities, respectively, at the CIG Standards Seminars in Manchester, UK. The presentations were originally given at the Standards Forum of the Cataloguing and Indexing Group at its Annual General Meeting in London on 26 Sep 2007.
17 Dec 2007 A draft of RDA Sections 2-4 and 9 has been made available for comment.
17 Dec 2007 Revised versions, reflecting the new organization of RDA, of the RDA Prospectus, Strategic plan, Objectives and principles, and Scope and structure have been published. Revised versions of the RDA element analysis and RDA to FRBR mapping, and a new RDA to FRAD mapping, have also been published.
22 Nov 2007 Gordon Dunsire gave a presentation on "Collaborating communities: the RDA experience and its implications for common information environments" at the 11th annual seminar for archives, libraries, museums, Porec, Croatia.
15-20 Oct 2007 The Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA met in Chicago, USA. Outcomes of the meeting are available.
26 Sep 2007 Ann Chapman, Alan Danskin and Gordon Dunsire gave presentations on RDA: the state of play, RDA: Implementation schedule, and RDA: benefits and opportunities, respectively, at the Standards Forum of the Cataloguing and Indexing Group at its Annual General Meeting in London.
30 Aug 2007 Robina Clayphan chaired a special session on RDA at DC-2007, the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, Singapore. Gordon Dunsire and Diane Hillmann gave presentations on RDA and the work of the DCMI RDA Task Group.
18 Jun-17 Sep 2007 A revised draft of RDA part A, chapters 6-7 has been made available for comment.
18 Jun 2007 The RDA Scope and structure document has been revised and now has two accompanying documents, an RDA element analysis and an RDA to FRBR mapping.
16 Jun 2007 Gordon Dunsire gave a presentation on RDA to staff of the National Library of Finland, Helsinki.
15 Jun 2007 Gordon Dunsire gave a presentation on Resource description and access for DAISY to the DAISY cataloguing workshop, 14-15 Jun 2007, Helsinki.
14 Jun-16 Jul 2007 A short survey on user preferences for a print version of RDA is being conducted. To add your views, visit the RDA online website and follow the navigation link to the survey.
13 Jun 2007 Gordon Dunsire gave a presentation on RDA to the Branch/Group Day of the annual conference of the Chartered Institute of Information Professionals in Scotland, Peebles, Scotland.
9 May 2007 Gordon Dunsire gave a presentation on RDA and library systems to the 31st ELAG Library Systems seminar, Barcelona.
8 May 2007 Gordon Dunsire gave a presentation on RDA to the Hellenic Academic Libraries Union Catalog seminar and workshop, Athens.
30 Apr-1 May 2007 An invitational meeting was held in London to examine the fit between RDA and models used in other metadata communities. Outcomes of this Data model meeting are available.
24 Apr 2007 Gordon Dunsire gave a presentation on RDA to the staff of Bibliographic Data Services, Dumfries, Scotland.
16-20 Apr 2007 The Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR (JSC) met in Ottawa, Canada. Outcomes of the meeting are available. Note that JSC has changed its name to Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA.
23 Mar 2007 Gordon Dunsire gave a presentation on RDA to the 2007 Annual General Meeting of the Cataloguing and Indexing Group in Scotland, Edinburgh.
21 Mar-16 Jul 2007 A revised draft of RDA Part A, chapter 3 has been made available for comment.
20 Mar 2007 Gordon Dunsire gave a presentation on RDA: the story continues to the 3. Leipziger Kongress für Information und Bibliothek (96. Deutscher Bibliothekartag (German Libraries Annual Conference), Leipzig).
16 Mar 2007 Ann Chapman gave a guest lecture entitled The tools of our trade: AACR2/RDA and MARC at the School of Information Management at London Metropolitan University.
Jan 2007 An article by Gordon Dunsire on Distinguishing content from carrier: the RDA/ONIX framework for resource categorization has been published in D-Lib magazine, v.13, no.1/2.

Past news

16-20 Oct 2006 The Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR (JSC) met in Washington, D.C., USA. Outcomes of the meeting are available.
Oct 2006 An article by Ann Chapman on RDA: a new international standard has been published in Ariadne, issue 49.
20 Sep 2006 Representatives of the National Library of Scotland (Graeme Forbes) and the National Library of Wales (Robert Davies) have joined the CILIP-BL Committee on RDA, following a revision of the Committee's formal constitution.
3 Aug 2006 Version 1.0 of the RDA/ONIX Framework for Resource Categorization has been published. The RDA Editor will use both the Framework, and the recommendations of the GMD/SMD Working Group, in preparing draft text for RDA sections 3.2 (Media category), 3.3 (Type of carrier) and 4.2 (Content category).
3 Jul 2006 A prototype of RDA Online, the online (and main) version of Resource Description and Access, has been made available for comment. The prototype is intended to demonstrate the functionality of the software; the draft RDA rules included are for illustration only.
20 Jun 2006 A draft of of RDA Part A, chapters 6-7 (formerly known as RDA Part 2) was made available for comment.
1 May 2006 There have been some changes to the CILIP-BL Committee on AACR. Sally Strutt resigned from the committee, and Ann Chapman became the new Chair. Alan Danskin joined, and is the new BL representative to JSC.
24-28 Apr 2006 The Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR (JSC) met in Ottawa, Canada. Outcomes of the meeting are available.
11 Apr 2006 CILIP published the CILIP constituency response to the drafts of Part 1 of RDA and Chapter 3 of Part 1 of RDA (PDF file).
27-28 Mar 2006 An expert group met at the British Library, London, to discuss the adoption of a common high-level ontology of information carrier and content formats by RDA and ONIX. Work is continuing. See the JSC announcement RDA and ONIX launch joint initiative for further information.
22 Mar 2006 Gordon Dunsire gave a presentation on RDA: a new international standard (PowerPoint Show) to the 95. Deutscher Bibliothekartag (German Libraries Annual Conference), Dresden.
27-28 Jan 2006 Stuart Hunt gave a presentation on RDA to the Oslo University College workshop on implementation of FRBR.
19 Jan 2006 A draft of Chapter 3 (Technical Description) of Part 1 of RDA was made available for comment.
12 Dec 2005 A draft of Part 1 of RDA was made available for comment.
17 Nov 2005 Gordon Dunsire gave a presentation on RDA: a new international standard for bibliographic description and access (PowerPoint Show) to the International conference in honour of the 100th anniversary of Eva Verona's birth, Zagreb.
10-14 Oct 2005 The Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR (JSC) met at the British Library Conference Centre, London, U.K. from Mon 10 Oct to Fri 14 Oct 2005. An executive summary and outcomes of the meeting were made available.
13 Sep 2005 Matthew Beacom gave a presentation on RDA to the DC Libraries Working Group at DC 2005, Madrid. The Group hopes to establish a way to contribute to the review process for RDA.