Kia ora koutou,
Apologies for cross-posting.
There are two more proposals being submitted to the RDA Steering Committee for their November meeting. Below Jack has compiled some excellent notes on these proposals. Do have a
read through the proposals and the comments, and if you have any queries, concerns or feedback then please do get in touch!
Ngā mihi nui,
Bridget
CatSIG ORDAC representative
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Hi all,
Another two proposals for the November meeting of the RSC have just been released. These are a continuation of the Technical Working Group's
suite relating to soft-deprecated elements that have been discussed at this year's meetings.
Soft-deprecated “Note on” elements
This proposal recommends the full deprecation of many of the “note on” elements, and proposing new note elements that are subtyped in a consistent manner. This would still allow intuitive use of the Toolkit to determine where to look for
specific conditions, options, and policy statements, without loading all of these onto generic “note on [entity]” elements. It would also allow for cleanup of the outdated and contradictory references to these elements throughout the Toolkit.
The proposal is available here: RSC_TechnicalWG_2026_5_0.pdf
Soft-deprecated parallel elements
Following feedback received on earlier proposals, the Technical Working Group proposed fully deprecating parallel elements. They argue RDA allows for more appropriate recording of this data such as repeating the element Manifestation: title
proper, and that parallel elements imply a hierarchy in multilingual environments. In their discussion they note ongoing issues, difficulty with MARC, and possibilities for institutions who wish to use the proposed deprecated elements locally.
The proposal recommends the soft-deprecated parallel elements be moved to the Legacy RDA Community Resources section of the Toolkit for those who wish to continue using them.
The proposal is available here: RSC_TechnicalWG_2026_6.pdf. I highly recommend reading this one in full and working through some examples of
how you may use parallel elements currently.
If possible, It would be wonderful to have feedback sent to me by Wednesday 30 September
for these and the other proposals. You can send to jack@rdatoolkit.org, or use the Oceania mailing list if preferred. If you would like to chat, just let me know and we can arrange a time.
As there is a tight timeframe, please share widely with your colleagues.
Cheers, Jack
Jack Ennis Butler
Oceania region representative to the RDA Steering Committee
On Tue, Aug 11, 2026 at 4:50 PM Jack Ennis Butler <jack@rdatoolkit.org> wrote: