Folks:

As of today, the RDA Roles on the NSDL Registry have been updated to 
reflect the changes in /RDA Appendix I: Relationship Designators: 
Relationships between a resource and Persons, Families, and Corporate 
Bodies Associated with the Resource /(available from the RDA 
Constituency Review page: 
http://www.rdaonline.org/constituencyreview//).  /Some roles were 
unchanged, others had changed definitions, or were new to the list.  See 
http://metadataregistry.org/schema/show/id/4.html for the vocabulary 
itself; click on "Properties" for the list of the roles.

In the document, the roles are presented according to the FRBR Group I 
entity they are associated with (in most cases this is also reflected in 
the definitions).  Because the FRBR Group I entities are not yet 
registered, there is not yet a machine-readable relationship to those 
entities, but we expect that there will be once IFLA completes the 
registration of the FRBR entities and relationships.

Regards,
Diane

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Diane I. Hillmann
Director of Metadata Initiatives
Information Institute of Syracuse
Partner, Metadata Management Associates
Website: http://managemetadata.org <http://managemetadata.org>
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