Dear All,

Many thanks Barbara.  

The text and agenda below will be going to the conference organisers in
about five hours.  This is your last chance to comment or get yourself
put on or taken off the agenda.  Would anyone like to make a
contribution from another community perspective?  SKOS, IEEE/LOM, W3C?

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Resource Description and Access Special Session

Resource Description and Access (RDA) is the content standard for
resource description being developed on the foundations of library
cataloguing practice established in the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules
(AACR). Dublin Core members have provided input to the RDA development
process from a non-traditional metadata perspective and this culminated
in a meeting between several metadata communities at the British Library
earlier this year. [1] The participants identified key strands of work
that would be useful to take forward collaboratively: the declaration of
an RDA element set, declaration of RDA controlled vocabularies, and
development of an RDA DC Application Profile.

This RDA Special Session is intended for those who are interested in the
background to these developments and the current position in relation to
the proposed work items. There will also be an opportunity for
discussion. 

[1] http://www.bl.uk/services/bibliographic/meeting.html

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Agenda

1) Welcome and Introduction - Robina Clayphan

2) Background to RDA and DC development - Diane Hillmann and Gordon
Dunsire

3) Current RDA/DC work plan - Diane Hillmann and Gordon Dunsire

4) Future developments - Diane Hillmann and Gordon Dunsire

5) Discussion - Robina Clayphan and All

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Best,
Robina

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