RSC/FT2024-05/Decisions

Abstract

The text below sets out the decisions taken by the RDA Steering Committee during its meeting 15-18 April 2024. The Technical Team Liaison Officer alerted the RSC to the need to update the Data Provenance Guidance in the RDA Toolkit. The acceptance of the Collections Model in RDA has led to a slight revision of the categorization of metadata works. A metadata description set was previously defined as “One or more metadata statements that describe and relate individual instances of one or more entities”. It is now defined as “A metadata work that is an aggregating work that is a plan to select and arrange one or more expressions of one or more metadata statements that describe one or more individual instances of RDA entities and embody them in an aggregate. The plan may be part of an application profile”. The concept of a metadata statement is essentially unchanged. Voting members of the RSC approved the new text submitted by the Technical Team Liaison Officer as RSC/FT2024-05 (RSC/Minutes/456-468 Item 461.2).