RDA includes ISBD.
There is an entire Appendix devoted to how RDA maps with ISBD and what
punctuation to use, etc.
The Joint Steering Committee has a representative on the ISBD Review Group to
assure harmonization, and we are now working together about the GMD
replacements for content type,
The final version plus a resolution and the Glossary is now out for a final
vote from the IME ICC 1-5 participants (deadline Nov. 14), and then it goes to
the Division IV Sections in IFLA for approval to publish. I continue to hope
it will be completed before the end of this calendar year.
To all who are making comments on IME ICC Principles using the RDA-L, if you
wish to make your comments known to the IFLA Planning Committee on IME ICC,
please go to the Web site at IFLANET
http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/icc/principles_review_200804.htm
and complete the voting form.
You are
Just a quick response on the 'authority files on the Web' part of this query,
the Virtual International Authority File is a reality, even if it is still in
start up project mode - try http://viaf.org (for now it is just the personal
name authority records from the Library of Congress, the
DNB and others to eventually join VIAF will not necessarily follow the same
cataloging rules or conventions or even the same scripts or language (we hope
soon to add more non-Latin scripts) - records for the same entitity are mapped
to each other using a computer algorithm that is about 95%
Just a quick note - gender as an element comes from FRAD and the French (and
other countries') requirement of this element in their national authority
records. Although a decision has not yet been made for LC or PCC, I would be
very surprised if we decided to add this element. It should be
For the RDA list, I would like to note that at the ALA Seattle meeting, where
Karen Coyle says she is quoting me, I said that user studies are very difficult
to do well, to get unbiased results, but that I would welcome user studies to
help guide the development of cataloging rules and
Just putting in my personal two cents - I highly recommend libraries just
continue to use the letters of the alphabet and not the special Unicode
characters for the Roman numerals (they cover 1-12 and the 50, 100, etc.). -
Barbara Tillett (This is not an official LC pronouncement - just my
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