Big RDA News!

Just when you thought there was no cataloging/metadata news ... An RDA Data Model meeting held at the British Library (April 30-May 1) announced the decision that RDA and DCMI will work together on a RDA DC Application Profile.

The announcement from the British Library.

Recommendations:

The meeting participants agreed that RDA and DCMI should work together to build on the existing work of both communities.

The participants recommend that the RDA Committee of Principals and DCMI seek funding for work to develop an RDA Application Profile -- specifically that the following activities be undertaken:

• development of an RDA Element Vocabulary
• development of an RDA DC Application Profile based on FRBR and FRAD
• disclosure of RDA Value Vocabularies using RDF/RDFS/SKOS

Outcomes:

The benefits of this activity will be that:

• the library community gets a metadata standard that is compatible with the Web Architecture and that is fully interoperable with other Semantic Web initiatives
• the DCMI community gets a libraries application profile firmly based on the DCAM and FRBR (which will be a high profile exemplar for others to follow)
• the Semantic Web community get a significant pool of well thought-out metadata terms to re-use
• there is wider uptake of RDA

Also, Karen Coyle's interview with Diane Hillmann concerning the implications of this news.

Via Repositories for the rest of us, Z666.7.L364 (www.jenniferlang.net)