[Metadatalibrarians] PCC Statement on the LC/NAL/NLM RDA Implementation decision

[Beth Picknally Camden]

The PCC affirms its support of the US national libraries' decision to 
implement RDA, slated to be no sooner than January 2013, and looks 
forward to collaborating with them in this effort.

Among the anticipated benefits for user discovery and access are making 
the FRBR model more of a reality, making metadata more 
machine-actionable, supporting the semantic web, making data more 
internationally understandable (e.g. by un-abbreviating), lifting the 
rule of 3, and others.

PCC has already formed three task groups on RDA 
<http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/> to begin preparing for this transition, 
and others will be formed as warranted.  The PCC Policy Committee will 
also be preparing a set of PCC RDA FAQs to be posted on the PCC RDA web 
site.  PCC's goal during the shift to RDA is to develop and foster 
effective and efficient means of implementing a new set of rules, while 
gaining a maximum amount of benefits from them.

The PCC Post RDA Test Guidelines 
<http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/PCC-Post-RDA-Test.html> remain in effect 
until further notice.

Please feel free to distribute this statement further.


Sent on behalf of the PCC Policy Committee

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Beth Picknally Camden
Goldstein Director of Information Processing
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
215-746-4149bethpc at upenn.edu
http://staffweb.library.upenn.edu/~bethpc
"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."
--Winston Churchill
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