Category Archives: Standards and Guidelines

CC:DA Liaison Blog Post

After my recent appointment as the Metadata Interest Group’s liaison to the Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access (CC:DA), I reached out to outgoing liaison Jessica Hayden to inquire about her experience.  One of her principle recommendations was to use … Continue reading

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RDA Steering Committee Announces Special RDA Event

For those of you in the Chicago area, the RDA Steering Committee (RSC) is inviting catalogers and metadata librarians to a special one-day event “Reconstructing RDA in the LRM: Aggregations, Authorities, and Appellations” on Tuesday, May 16.  Visit http://www.rda-rsc.org/SpecialRDAevent for … Continue reading

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New Metadata Guidelines and METS Profile for Video Published by the Human Rights Documentation Initiative

The University of Texas Human Rights Documentation Initiative has just released Version 1.0 of the “Human Rights Documentation Initiative Metadata Guidelines for Video” (HRDI-MGV) and registered a new UTVideo METS Profile with the Library of Congress.  These new documents are … Continue reading

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