• The Prospectus now reflects the new organization of RDA
• The RDA Strategic Plan, which establishes long-term goals for RDA and the strategies for achieving those goals in the period 2005-2009
• The RDA Objectives and Principles document, which sets out the objectives and principles that govern the overall design of RDA as well as objectives and principles relating to the functionality of the data produced through the application of RDA
• RDA Scope and Structure document

JSC has also made available for comment a draft of RDA Sections 2-4 and 9. These are:

Section 2: Recording attributes of work and expression
• Chapter 5: General guidelines on recording attributes of works and expressions
• Chapter 6: Identifying works and expressions
Section 3: Recording attributes of person, family and corporate body
• Chapter 8: General guidelines on recording attributes of persons, families and corporate bodies
• Chapter 9: Identifying persons
• Chapter 10: Identifying families
• Chapter 11: Identifying corporate bodies
Section 4: Recording attributes of concept, object, event and place
• Chapter 16: Identifying places
Section 9: Recording relationships between persons, families and corporate bodies
• Chapter 29: General guidelines on recording relationships between persons, families and corporate bodies
• Chapter 30: Related persons
• Chapter 31: Related families
• Chapter 32: Related corporate bodies
Drafts of the following appendices of RDA — Resource Description and Access:
• Appendix F: Additional instructions on names of persons
• Appendix G: Titles of nobility, terms of rank, etc.
• Appendix H: Conversion of dates to the Gregorian calendar

The deadline for comments is March 17, 2008. Please see the JSC RDA Web site for the draft and instructions on making comments.