October 2020 Draft Agenda and Briefing Papers Available

Addendum: The final version of the agenda was published on 11 October 2020.

The draft agenda and briefing papers for the October 2020 RDA Steering Committee (RSC) meeting are now available. The final version of the agenda will be published just before the meeting begins, but the agenda is not expected to substantively change.

As previously announced, this will be a two-week virtual meeting (12-15 October and 20-23 October), which will use a mix of asynchronous and video meeting styles.

It is not possible to have observers at the asynchronous meetings due to software constraints. Outcomes from that portion of the meeting will be publicly reported as soon as practical.

However, the public session of the agenda will be discussed in a Zoom video call which will be open to observers. This call is scheduled for Wednesday 14 October at 21:00 UTC/GMT (5 pm EDT; 8:00 am AEDT on Thursday 15 October in Oceania). It will be a two hour call. The RSC offers apologies to those for whom this is an inconvenient time; the group rotates calls throughout time zones to share the burden of middle-of-the-night calls. Outcomes will be publicly reported as soon as practical.

The topics for the public session are:

• Internationalization of RDA Toolkit during the 3R Project
• Timespans and units of time
• RDA vocabulary encoding scheme for Manifestation: type of binding
• Proposal to add the elements 'curator agent of work' and its inverse to RDA (This will be a discussion of the proposal process; the RSC will consider the content of the proposal at a future meeting)

Please contact the RSC Secretary, Linda Barnhart at rscsecretary@rdatoolkit.org by 5 October to register to attend this video call.

The RSC does not publish the recordings of its meetings, which are captured for the purpose of creating accurate minutes.