Dear MIG colleagues,
The North American RDA Committee has drafted another proposal for review, attached here. The revision proposal is brief, and its main objective is to reintroduce language from Original RDA clarifying the scope of the term "corporate body" into Official RDA. Specifically, the language being proposed would clarify that entities like events, exhibitions, ships, and other types of entities are within scope of the definition of corporate body.
Please send me your feedback by end of day on Wed. 11 May, and I will compile any feedback in my statement to CC:DA on behalf of the MIG.
I can say that I support the proposal overall, but would suggest updating some of the language, especially the phrase "local church groups identified by the name of the church," to be more inclusive. So something along the lines of "local religious groups identified by the name of the religious institution, structure, denomination, or congregation," or something along those lines.
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Timothy Ryan Mendenhall (he/him)
Metadata Librarian, Columbia University
CORE Metadata Interest Group Liaison to CC:DA
trm2151@columbia.edu------------------------------