Dear MIG colleagues,
Apologies for the short turnaround time. NARDAC (North American RDA Committee) has published an RDA revision proposal, RSC/NARDAC/2025/1. I would appreciate if you could send me any comments by Monday 3 March so that I can forward them as part of the CC:DA response to the proposal--either reply to this thread or email me at trm2151@columbia.edu.
Summary of the proposal: current RDA contains some language with Anglo-American bias regarding numbers associated with an access point or variant access point for a name, typically associated with regents such as queens and kings, or an ecclesiastical official like a pope: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth II, Pope John XXIII. The text of some of the RDA instructions refer to these numbers as Roman numerals, although other languages often do not use Roman numerals for these numbers, which could be more neutrally described as "regnal numbers." The proposal therefore advocates for a change in the RDA text to replace "Roman numeral" with "regnal number" in some of the relevant instructions, which would make RDA more inclusive of practices for regnal numbers in other language and script communities.
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Timothy Ryan Mendenhall (he/him)
Metadata Librarian, Columbia University
CORE Metadata Interest Group Liaison to CC:DA
trm2151@columbia.edu------------------------------