CC:DA/TF/Relationship Designators in RDA Appendix K/6 RDA Appendix K Revision and Expansion

Abstract

A fuller set of designators in Appendix K is badly needed in current cataloging. The task force is asking the JSC to consider the document as a whole, including its organization, but to approve as many of the individual designators as possible regardless of its position on incorporating the document as a whole. We are aware that a JSC working group is currently considering general questions about relationship designators, but the designators enumerated in this document themselves are needed and we request that Appendix K expansion not wait for the full outcomes of the JSC working group. Currently new designators are appearing in all the designator appendixes through the fast-track process, which in the case of Appendix K is resulting in a piecemeal expansion. This revision proposal also includes a related revision to RDA 29. This was necessary because nothing in Chapter 29 currently supports general agent-to-agent relationships.