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RE: Comments requested: one new NARDAC proposal for RDA revision

Posted By Timothy Mendenhall Apr 16, 2025 12:50 PM
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Hi there, My apologies -- please send all comments by Sunday 11 May. Best,TRM -- Timothy Ryan Mendenhall (he/him/his)Metadata Librarian Columbia University Libraries Cataloging and Metadata Services 102 Butler Library535 West 114th StreetNew York, NY 10027 trm2151@columbia.edu(212) 851-2452

Comments requested: one new NARDAC proposal for RDA revision

Posted By Timothy Mendenhall Apr 15, 2025 12:19 PM
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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 ...

Comments requested: one new NARDAC proposal for RDA revision

Posted By Timothy Mendenhall Apr 15, 2025 12:18 PM
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RE: Comments requested: RSC/NARDAC/2025/3 - Revision of two sets of condition and condition options for Corporate Body: variant access point for corporate body

Posted By Timothy Mendenhall Apr 02, 2025 09:02 AM
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Hi there, Although I did not get any comments from the Core Metadata Interest Group, I support both of the proposals. My one reservation concerns RSC/NARDAC/2025/3 : although I can't think of a good example, I wonder if recommendation 2 should retain both of the original condition options, rather ...

Comments requested: two new NARDAC proposals for RDA

Posted By Timothy Mendenhall Mar 20, 2025 01:47 PM
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Dear MIG colleagues, The North America RDA Committee (NARDAC) has requested comments on drafts of two RDA revision proposals that it plans to submit, both attached to this post. Please send me your comments by end of day on 8 April so that I can forward them to NARDAC. RSC/NARDAC/2025/2, ...

Comments requested: two new NARDAC proposals for RDA

Posted By Timothy Mendenhall Mar 20, 2025 01:46 PM
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RE: Opportunity to comment on NARDAC proposal on regnal numbers

Posted By Timothy Mendenhall Mar 04, 2025 08:03 AM
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Hi there, I received no comments from the Metadata Interest Group constituency, but agree that the proposal is sensible. I support the proposal. ------------------------------ Timothy Ryan Mendenhall (he/him) Metadata Librarian, Columbia University CORE Metadata Interest Group Liaison to CC:DA t ...

Request for comments: RDA revision proposal on regnal numbers

Posted By Timothy Mendenhall Feb 25, 2025 08:58 AM
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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 ...

Reminder: CC:DA Midwinter meeting this Thur. 6 Feb - Fri. 7 Feb. -- agenda, reports, and links

Posted By Timothy Mendenhall Feb 06, 2025 08:47 AM
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Dear MIG colleagues, Sending a friendly reminder that the CC:DA Midwinter 2025 meeting will take place this Thur. 6 Feb. and Fri. 7 Feb. virtually on Zoom. I am pasting in below the complete agenda, which includes Zoom links to join the meeting, as well as assorted reports of committee liaisons ...

CC:DA Midwinter Meeting

Posted By Timothy Mendenhall Jan 17, 2025 10:37 AM
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Dear MIG colleagues, Forwarding the announcement about the CC:DA Midwinter Meeting. As a reminder, CC:DA is the ALA constituency for submitting feedback, revision proposals, and other relevant comments and concerns relating to the RDA cataloging standard. CC:DA (Committee on Cataloging: Description ...

RE: RDA proposals: please send comments by 29 Sept.

Posted By Timothy Mendenhall Aug 30, 2024 08:26 AM
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RE: RDA proposals: please send comments by 29 Sept.

Posted By Timothy Mendenhall Aug 30, 2024 08:26 AM
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Dear MIG colleagues, I'm writing with an update relating to the RSC Extent Working Group discussion paper mentioned yesterday: RSC/ExtentWG/2024/1/rev2. The Core Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access (CC:DA) task group to formulate an ALA response to this discussion paper has completed ...

RDA proposals: please send comments by 29 Sept.

Posted By Timothy Mendenhall Aug 29, 2024 09:31 AM
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Dear Core Metadata Interest Group colleagues, There are three RDA proposals and discsussion papers which will be discussed at the upcoming RDA Steering Committee (RSC) meeting in November. Please review them and send any comments or feedback to me--read on for details. Your comments will help Core ...

LD4 2024 Conference: Call for proposals (deadline August 25, 2024)

Posted By Timothy Mendenhall Aug 01, 2024 08:29 AM
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Call for Proposals: LD4 2024 Conference: Building Community for Linked Open Data Submission deadline: August 25, 2024 Submission form: https://forms.gle/jYXkFMYMVBVSYd6o7 The call for proposals for LD4 2024 Conference: Building Community for Linked Open Data is officially open! The deadline to ...

Report on the ALA-LC Romanization Table Review Board's MARC discussion paper

Posted By Timothy Mendenhall Jun 29, 2024 03:19 PM
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Related to the item recently added to the CC:DA meeting agenda, please find attached a report on a MARC discussion paper authored by the ALA-LC Romanization Table Review Board with participation from individuals on the PCC Standing Committee on Standards and CC:AAM. The discussion paper concerns tagging ...

Report on the ALA-LC Romanization Table Review Board's MARC discussion paper

Posted By Timothy Mendenhall Jun 29, 2024 03:18 PM
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RE: Comments requested: RSC/TechnicalWG/2024/1

Posted By Timothy Mendenhall Mar 14, 2024 09:09 AM
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Hi there, I have received no comments from the Metadata Interest Group constituency, but the proposal looks sensible and I support it. ------------------------------ Timothy Ryan Mendenhall (he/him) Metadata Librarian, Columbia University CORE Metadata Interest Group Liaison to CC:DA trm2151@columbia.edu ...

RE: Comments requested: RSC/ORDAC/2024/1

Posted By Timothy Mendenhall Mar 14, 2024 09:08 AM
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Hi there, I have received no comments from the Metadata Interest Group constituency, but agree with Kathy and John's comments and support the proposal. ------------------------------ Timothy Ryan Mendenhall (he/him) Metadata Librarian, Columbia University CORE Metadata Interest Group Liaison to ...

Call for comments: RDA proposal on work group elements

Posted By Timothy Mendenhall Mar 08, 2024 08:24 AM
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Dear colleagues, Another RDA revision proposal has come down to pike: RSC/TechnicalWG/2024/1 This proposal seeks to clean up element hierarchies for appellations of a work groups, which were introduced to RDA during the 3R project. In particular, there are some inconsistencies in inverse elements ...

Call for comments: RDA proposal on dual-language naming of corporate bodies and places

Posted By Timothy Mendenhall Mar 06, 2024 08:27 AM
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Hi there, ORDAC (Oceania RDA Committee) has issued an RDA change proposal which seeks to better accommodate practices for dual-language naming of corporate bodies and places: http://rda-rsc.org/sites/all/files/RSC_ORDAC_2024-1.pdf As an example, this proposal would seek to add options to the instructions ...