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| Agenda for April 2021 RSC asynchronous meeting | 19 March 2021 |
The agenda for the upcoming RSC asynchronous meeting, to be held 12-15 April, has been posted. The agenda includes links to two updated standing working group charges (in draft form) which will be discussed at the meeting. Unfortunately, it is not possible to accommodate observers at RSC asynchronous meetings due to software constraints. Comments on public session topics are welcome and should be shared with your regional representative. |
| RSC Meeting Calendar for 2021 | 24 November 2020 |
The quarterly meeting schedule for the RDA Steering Committee for 2021 is shown below. The meetings are held asynchronously using Basecamp software. Agendas and supporting materials will be posted on the RSC website three weeks before the meeting begins. Minutes are posted on the RSC website following the meeting. |
| October 2020 Draft Agenda and Briefing Papers Available | 21 September 2020 |
Addendum: The final version of the agenda was published on 11 October 2020. The draft agenda and briefing papers for the October 2020 RDA Steering Committee (RSC) meeting are now available. The final version of the agenda will be published just before the meeting begins, but the agenda is not expected to substantively change. |
| RSC Meeting in October 2020 | 30 July 2020 |
The in-person meeting of the RDA Steering Committee planned for October 2020 at the National Library of Israel has been shifted to a virtual meeting format due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The RSC thanks the National Library for their invitation and looks forward to holding our annual in-person meeting in Jerusalem at some point in the future. |
| Technical Working Group news | 12 May 2020 |
The RDA Steering Committee (RSC) is pleased to announce that Damian Iseminger will succeed Gordon Dunsire as the Technical Team Liaison to the RSC and chair of the RSC's Technical Working Group; his two-year term starts January 2021. Iseminger is currently a member of the Working Group and now takes on the additional role of Technical Team Liaison-Elect. At the beginning of 2021, Dunsire will step down as chair but will continue as a member of the Working Group. |
| RSC Meeting Calendar for 2020 | 28 February 2020 |
The quarterly meeting schedule for the RDA Steering Committee for 2020 is: |
| Conversation continuing between the RSC and BIBFRAME | 14 February 2020 |
The conversation continued at the 2019 ALA Midwinter Conference in Philadelphia between representatives of the RDA Steering Committee and the larger BIBFRAME community (which includes the Library of Congress/NDMSO, LD4P, Share-VDE, and the organizer group of the annual BIBFRAME workshops in Europe). A possible field of future cooperation is an approach to application profiles. For the coming years, the RSC has a BIBFRAME mapping on its action plan. The group is pleased to report continuing progress and the intention to meet again at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago in June 2020. |
| Statement on 3R Project Completion | 18 October 2019 |
This announcement was posted on the RDA Toolkit blog on 15 October 2019: Current Status |
| Thank you for your feedback | 16 October 2019 |
The RSC would like to thank the many people who responded about the RDA beta site through the feedback form and through other formal mechanisms such as regional representatives and task groups. Around 400 submissions have been made to date through the feedback form alone, some comprising multiple points. In addition, the RSC received substantive feedback from several national libraries, national cataloguing committees, and task groups. |
| Minutes posted for September 2019 asynchronous meeting | 9 October 2019 |
The RDA Steering Committee held its first asynchronous meeting from 16-19 September 2019 (17-20 September 2019 in Oceania), using Basecamp software. Minutes for that meeting have been posted on the RSC website. |