[yul-naco] RDA Updates in OCLC

[Arakawa, Steven]

>From today's logon message:

For some months now, OCLC's WorldCat Quality Management Division has been actively
working on the project to incorporate Resource Description and Access (RDA)
practices, references, and examples into OCLC's Bibliographic Formats and
Standards (BFAS) http://www.oclc.org/bibformats/en.html and to thoroughly revise
the document. Policies are being updated, links to Searching WorldCat Indexes http://oc.lc/5SfZ7D
will be added, references to RDA and the LC-PCC PSs are being incorporated, and
some examples will be modernized and others added to reflect RDA practices. We
have also begun adding the dates of the most recent revision to the bottom of
pages that have been revised. This is a huge undertaking and will be happening
gradually over time. Meanwhile, we have brought together on the OCLC About RDA
page http://www.oclc.org/rda/about.en.html links to LC, OCLC, other documentation
about RDA, the current RDA policy statement, and a webinar about it: http://oc.lc/2PC2UO.
You will continue seeing changes regularly as the BFAS Update Project progresses.

Steven Arakawa
Catalog Librarian for Training & Documentation  
Catalog & Metadata Services   
Sterling Memorial Library. Yale University  
P.O. Box 208240 New Haven, CT 06520-8240     
(203) 432-8286 steven.arakawa at yale.edu