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The Co-Publishers of RDA Online (the American Library Association, the Canadian Library Association, and the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) have reached the conclusion that further time is required to complete the development of the new software that will be used for distributing the full draft of RDA for constituency review.

The full draft was originally scheduled for release on August 4, 2008. Instead, it will now be issued in October 2008. The three month time period allocated for comments on the full draft is unchanged, and in this new schedule will extend from October into January 2009. More specific dates for RDA's final release will be forthcoming shortly.

Members of the Committee of Principals (CoP) and the Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA (JSC) agree that the importance of distributing RDA content in a well-developed and tested version of the new software is such that a two-month delay is justified. They concluded that this extension is worthwhile given the ultimate value of the exceptional effort that is going into RDA and feel that the review by constituencies will be enhanced as a result.




- Mads, Request For Comments
A request for comments from the MADS folks. The MODS/MADS Editorial Committee has released a draft the MADS 2.0 XML Schema for community review and testing. Your comments are invited on the draft schema, posted at http://www.loc.gov/standards/mads/mads-2-0-draft.xsd...

- Mods 3.4 Schema
The latest version of the Metadata Object Description Schema is available for comment.The Library of Congress and the MODS Editorial Committee are happy to announce the release of a draft MODS 3.4 Schema for community review. The draft Schema itself may...

- Resource Description And Access
News about RDA.Outcomes of the October 2007 meeting of the Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA have been mounted on the JSC Web site.The Outcomes outline a new organization for RDA which has been agreed to by the Joint Steering Committee and...

- Rda: Resource Description And Access
Now available RDA: Resource Description and Access Part I - Constituency Review of December 2005 Draft and RDA: Resource Description and Access Part I - Constituency Review of January 2006 Draft of Chapter 3 from the UK Chartered Institute of Library...

- Onix
The Serials Release Notification (SRN) subgroup of the NISO/EDItEUR Joint Working Party (JWP) invites you to participate in a review of the draft Serials Release Notification message. The SRN is an XML message based on ONIX for Serials structure, and...



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