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Dear all 1. I have now registered for DC2007 and booked my flights and accommodation. I will have to miss the first day of the conference proper to give me enough time to recover after IFLA in Durban; the need to keep expenses down means I have to fly Edinburgh-Durban return, then immediately followed by Edinburgh-Singapore (single tickets would have doubled the cost). So I will miss the session on Collections, which is a pity. But I'll be ok for the RDA session, and the Advisory Board on Saturday. Robina: please let me know what you want me to do in respect of the RDA session. I'm booked in to the Intercontinental. The travel and accommodation have exhausted the budget allocated by JSC, unless the US dollar makes a significant recovery against the British pound. CDLR has agreed, however, that I should not starve, and will make up any additional expenses. I have been talking to Diane Hillman about the possibility of assisting in her metadata decisions workshop to get some additional funding. 2. I have just returned from giving a presentation on RDA to the IFLA Libraries for the Blind Section workshop on Daisy (Digital Accessible Information System) cataloguing in Helsinki, Finland. See http://www.daisy.org/ for more about Daisy. The consortium is developing a global standard for metadata for digital talking books. They have already settled on using Dublin Core, so the cataloguers were very interested in the news about the work proposed for the DCMI Resource Description and Access Task Group. The vocabularies for content and carrier type proposed in RDA are of particular interest, especially if the equivalent RDA/ONIX framework values can be used to restrict union catalogue searches to exclude resources requiring visual intermediation. There was also interest in using, if appropriate, the proposed RDA application profile. 3. As you will have seen, I have added all members of the RDA Joint Steering Committee to this list. If you wish to add any technically-minded colleagues, please let me know. Cheers Gordon