News and announcements 2007

17 Dec 2007 A draft of RDA Sections 2-4 and 9 was 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 were published. Revised versions of the RDA element analysis and RDA to FRBR mapping, and a new RDA to FRAD mapping, were also 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 was conducted.
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 was published in D-Lib magazine, v.13, no.1/2.