Below is a brief background for this discussion paper. Please see the attached for the full proposal and comment no later than Monday, December, 22, 2025.
Background
The RSC has been examining the possibility of fully deprecating the soft-deprecated elements in RDA, including the parallel elements (for prior discussions see RSC/TechnicalWG/2-23/2 ; RSC/Minutes/413-443/datecorrected Items 415 and 417 ; RSC/Minutes/508-520 Item 518 ; and RSC/Minutes/521-537 Item 523). The following discussion paper is an attempt to look at how cataloging might work if the parallel elements in RDA were fully deprecated and no longer available for use.
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Karl Pettitt
Coordinator of Cataloging and Metadata Services
University of Denver Libraries
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