RSC Paper on RDA Conformance

Gordon Dunsire,
RSC Technical Team Liaison Officer
May 12, 2020

The RSC is soliciting feedback on the following paper that will be discussed at the July asynchronous meeting: RDA conformance.

This informative paper explains what is RDA-conformant metadata, “presents a draft expansion of RDA Toolkit guidance to accommodate the topic,” and asks three questions:

“Question 1: Should the RSC offer conformance certification in addition to the passive guidance included in the Toolkit?

Question 2: Should the Toolkit include content for assessing conformance for specific application communities? Content might include examples, alignments and mappings for parsing metadata statements, and decision trees.

Question 3: Should the RSC offer additional technical guidance and support for conformance, interoperability, and mappings between RDA metadata and non-RDA applications?”

Expression Excerpts

4 October 2019

Expression Excerpts

Gordon Dunsire, RSC Technical Team Liaison Officer

Abstract

This paper discusses the issues in recording extracts of expressions and how they can be resolved in RDA Toolkit. The recommendations in the paper are based on a set of assumptions that are listed as propositions. Detailed proposals for additions to RDA guidance and instructions are dependent on agreement with the propositions and recommendations and are not included in this paper.

Background documents:

  • 6JSC/LC/20 – Revisions to Chapter 6 to treat “Selections” as a work attribute
  • 5JSC/LC/12 –  Proposed revision of RDA Chapter 6, Additional instructions for musical works and expressions

RDA Content Elements

4 October 2019

RDA Content Elements

Gordon Dunsire, RSC Technical Team Liaison Officer

Abstract

This paper makes recommendations for developing expression “content” elements to conform to the aggregates model. The paper does not address the need for additional elements to improve the recording of aggregating expressions and aggregating works.

RSC/Operations/6 — Policy and procedures for RSC Meetings

RSC/Operations/6
1 August 2019

NARDAC members have been asked to share these operations documents with our constituencies for feedback, comments, suggestions, concerns, etc. CC:DA, please review and comment by September 24th.

CC:DA members are also encouraged to read and respond to these additional operations documents:  https://alcts.ala.org/ccdablog/?p=3756

  • RSC/Operations/1 — Policy and Procedures for RSC Operations 
  • RSC/Operations/2 — RSC Position Responsibilities
  • RSC/Operations/3 — General Terms of Reference for RSC Working Groups 
  • RSC/Operations/4 — Policy and Procedures for Updating RDA Content
  • RSC/Operations/5 — Guidelines for Proposals, Discussion Papers, and Responses to Them

RSC/Operations/3 — General Terms of Reference for RSC Working Groups

RSC/Operations/3
1 August 2019

NARDAC members have been asked to share these operations documents with our constituencies for feedback, comments, suggestions, concerns, etc. CC:DA, please review and comment by September 24th.

CC:DA members are also encouraged to read and respond to these additional operations documents: https://alcts.ala.org/ccdablog/?p=3756

  • RSC/Operations/1 — Policy and Procedures for RSC Operations 
  • RSC/Operations/2 — RSC Position Responsibilities
  • RSC/Operations/4 — Policy and Procedures for Updating RDA Content
  • RSC/Operations/5 — Guidelines for Proposals, Discussion Papers, and Responses to Them
  • RSC/Operations/6 — Policy and procedures for RSC Meetings

RSC/Operations/1 — Policy and Procedures for RSC Operations

RSC/Operations/1
6 August 2019

NARDAC members have been asked to share these operations documents with our constituencies for feedback, comments, suggestions, concerns, etc. CC:DA, please review and comment by September 24th.

CC:DA members are also encouraged to read and respond to these additional operations documents:  https://alcts.ala.org/ccdablog/?p=3756

  • RSC/Operations/2 — RSC Position Responsibilities
  • RSC/Operations/3 — General Terms of Reference for RSC Working Groups 
  • RSC/Operations/4 — Policy and Procedures for Updating RDA Content
  • RSC/Operations/5 — Guidelines for Proposals, Discussion Papers, and Responses to Them
  • RSC/Operations/6 — Policy and procedures for RSC Meetings