You can register for a Day Ticket to the RDA Day or join us for the entire 3-Day Conference in Bristol (11-13 March 2026).
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Attendees will consider:
- What weight does your bridge need to carry? (resource types, levels of description, available resources/tools, time constraints, institutional support, etc.)
- What materials will you use? (entities, elements, relationships, vocabularies, etc.)

There will be hands-on, interactive workshops to explore building RDA 'bridges' (application profiles), from the very basic upwards. Facilitators from UKCoR will provide the building blocks for each team to create their bridge from non-RDA/original RDA to official RDA.

The RDA Day will also include sessions on:
- Official RDA implementation - worldwide case studies
- The language of RDA
- Using the Toolkit as a toolkit
- Navigating the Toolkit
- Which implementation method works for you?

This presentation aims to contextualise the following questions & invite discussion:
- What does such a change mean?
- What impact does it have on our work?
- What is the current situation of libraries & other cultural institutions?
- Why do we still need standards in a world dominated by AI?

#RDAday Keynote: "Countdown to Official RDA" -- Renate Behrens (RSC Chair)

In May 2027, the Original RDA Toolkit will no longer be available. For all user communities, the new Official RDA Toolkit, which has been available for several years, will then become the working basis....

We are thrilled to have Chair of the RDA Steering Committee (RSC), Renate Behrens, as our Keynote speaker.
Renate has been committed to the further development & dissemination of RDA at an international level for many years, with multilingualism & cultural diversity being of particular concern.

Urgh. Sounds a complete nightmare! Hope you get through it soon x

Are the painters not coming back to finish?

(i.e. Is he confused about where you are in the process, or have you been abandoned by the decorators)?

Sorry for the stress in any case.

Done. But will still keep an eye out for more London events. Us London folk are The Worst for that, I know, but after over 30 years I’ve gone a bit native 🤷🏻‍♀️

Urgh. I’ve been doing that awful thing us London-dwellers do and waiting for you to announce your London dates. And this is slap bang in the middle of the Metadata and Discovery Group conference in Bristol. 🤦🏻‍♀️

I note they say “first of”. (Cataloguer, innit?) Have you got others lined up down here?