CILIP Submissions

Superseded: British Library (BL) and CILIP submissions are now made via the RDA Europe community in the Europe documents series.

Although members of the CILIP-BL Committee on RDA jointly discuss proposals for the development of RDA at meetings and via email, the formal relationship with the Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA (JSC) requires the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) to submit proposals and responses to other proposals separately from the British Library (BL).

Most of the CILIP proposals and responses are publicly available as online documents in Portable Document Format (PDF). You can download the Adobe Acrobat Reader software required to view or print such documents free of charge from Adobe Systems Incorporated.

Note that these documents are made available for outreach to resource description communities and to assist the JSC in its work. Under no circumstances should the documents be copied or re-transmitted without prior consultation with the Chair of JSC.

The CILIP document series contains proposals originated by CILIP together with responses from other JSC constituencies.

CILIP responses to proposals from other JSC constituencies are listed below in chronological order, with the latest first. The original proposals and responses from other JSC constituencies can be found in the working documents section of the JSC website.

• Revision of RDA 2.12.9.2 and 2.12.17.2: Source of numbering within series and subseries (25 Sep 2014)
• Creating a priority order for Sources of Information in Date of Manufacture element (RDA 2.10.6.2) (25 Sep 2014)
• Clarifying core element status for "not identified" elements in the Distribution and Manufacture Statements (RDA 2.9 and 2.10) (25 Sep 2014)
• Using the mark of omission when recording titles (RDA 6.2) (25 Sep 2014)
• Subject Relationship Element in RDA Chapter 23 (25 Sep 2014)
• Expanding the scope of Statement of Responsibility in RDA 2.4 and eliminating the instructions for Performers, Narrators, Presenters (RDA 7.23), and Artistic and/or Technical Credits (RDA 7.24) (25 Sep 2014)
• Clarifying instructions for Sequences of Plates (RDA 3.4.5.9) (25 Sep 2014)
• Eliminating the instructions for Date of Expression of a Religious Work (RDA 6.24) and modifying the instructions for Authorized Access Point Representing an Expression of the Bible (RDA 6.30.3.2) (25 Sep 2014)
• Creating instructions for using nominative case for titles (RDA 6.2), names (RDA 8.5), and places (RDA 16.2) (25 Sep 2014)
• Clarifying instructions for Recording Duration (RDA 7.22) and Note on Carrier (RDA 3.21) (25 Sep 2014)
• Transcription issues associated with the Production Statement (RDA 2.7) (25 Sep 2014)
• Revision of 0.6 Core Elements Draft (25 Sep 2014)
• Merging 3.6.1.3 Recording Base Material and 3.6.2 Base Material for Microform, Microfiche, Photographic Film, and Motion Picture Film (25 Sep 2014)
• Changes to Appendix D.0 and D.1.3.1 (25 Sep 2014)
• "Between", "Before" and "After" dates (Revision of RDA 9.3.1.3) (25 Sep 2014)
• Post-nominal letters as Other Designation (Additional examples for RDA 9.6.1.9 and 9.19.1.7, and addition to Appendix E) (25 Sep 2014)
• Priority order for additions to authorized access points representing a person (Revision of RDA 9.19) (25 Sep 2014)
• Fictitious Families and Corporate Bodies (Revision of RDA 10.0, 10.3.1.3, 10.11.1.2, 11.0, 11.7.1.4, 11.13.1.2) (25 Sep 2014)
• Place Associated with the Corporate Body (Revision of RDA 11.3.1, 11.13.1.3) (25 Sep 2014)
• Field of Activity of the Corporate Body (Revision of RDA 11.10.1.3) (25 Sep 2014)
• Full name as addition to Initialism or Acronym in Access Points for Corporate Bodies (Revision of RDA 11.13.1.2) (25 Sep 2014)
• Simplification of RDA 2.7-2.10 (25 Sep 2014)
• Add instructions to supply terms indicating the function recorded under the optional addition provisions at 2.7.4.4, 2.8.4.4, 2.9.4.4, or 2.10.4.4, in a language and script preferred by the cataloguing agency (25 Sep 2014)
• Internationalization and RDA Appendix A Capitalization: Discussion Paper (25 Sep 2014)
• Discussion paper: Mixture of work level and manifestation level in RDA 2.3.2.6 (Collective Title and Titles of Individual Contents), Optional Additions (25 Sep 2014)
• Discussion paper: Hidden relationships in attributes (examples: RDA 9.4.1.4.2, 9.13, 10.6, 11.3, 16.2.2)> (25 Sep 2014)
• Revision proposal for RDA 6.28.3, Authorized Access Point Representing a Musical Expression (25 Sep 2014)
• Revision proposal for RDA 3.4.3.2 and RDA 3.21.2.5 (25 Sep 2014)
• Revision proposal for choosing and recording preferred titles for music in RDA 6.14.2.3–6.14.2.6 (25 Sep 2014)
• Revision proposal for RDA 6.2.1.9, 6.14.2.7.1, Appendix B.3: Abbreviation for the part designation Number or its equivalent in another language (25 Sep 2014)
• Revision proposal for conventional collective titles in RDA 6.14.2.8 and Glossary definitions for conventional collective titles and the term Type of Composition (25 Sep 2014)
• Additional terms for Base Material in RDA 3.6.1.3 and Applied Material in RDA 3.7.1.3 (25 Sep 2014)
• Meta-metadata elements in RDA (25 Sep 2014)
• Note and related elements in RDA (25 Sep 2014)
• High-level subject relationship in RDA (25 Sep 2014)
• Court and Jurisdiction in RDA (25 Sep 2014)
• Revision to RDA 16.2.2.8 (Place Names for Jurisdictions) (25 Sep 2014)
• Revision to RDA 2.4.1.8 (Noun Phrase Occurring with a Statement of Responsibility) (25 Sep 2014)
• Compilations of Works by Different Persons, Families, or Corporate Bodies (New 6.2.2.11) (25 Sep 2014)
• Works without titles (25 Sep 2014)
• Revisions to instructions on Parts of the Bible (6.23.2.9.2–6.23.2.9.5 and 6.23.2.9.7) (25 Sep 2014)
• Major and minor titles changes for serials in languages which do not divide text into words: proposal for new wording and instructions (25 Sep 2014)
• Change in mode of issuance for online resources: proposal for a revised instruction (25 Sep 2014)
• Revision to 6.2.2.10 (Recording the Preferred Title for a Compilation of Works of One Person, Family, or Corporate Body) and 6.2.2.4 (Works created after 1500) (25 Sep 2014)
• ISBD Review Group response to JSC Response to the two Discussion Papers from the ISBD Review Group (3 Oct 2013)
• Revision of A.29, Capitalization of Hyphenated Compounds; changes in Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition (2010)  (3 Oct 2013)
• Variant title as access point (RDA 6.27.4.1, 6.28.4.1, 6.29.3.1, 6.30.5.1, 6.31.3.1) (3 Oct 2013)
• RDA Appendix K Revision and Expansion (3 Oct 2013)
• Colour Content (RDA 7.17) (3 Oct 2013)
• Machine-Actionable Data Elements in RDA: Discussion Paper (2013) (3 Oct 2013)
• Instructions for Recording Relationships: Discussion Paper (3 Oct 2013)
• Note on Manifestation and Item (3 Oct 2013)
• Revision of RDA 2.3.1.7 (Titles of Parts, Sections, and Supplements) and RDA 2.3.2.6 (Collective Title and Titles of Individual Contents) (3 Oct 2013)
• Revision of RDA 3.5.3 (Dimensions of still images) (3 Oct 2013)
• Proposals for Subject Relationships (3 Oct 2013)
• Parts of the Bible: Books (RDA 6.23.2.9.2) (3 Oct 2013)
• Larger place – Revision of RDA 16.2.2.4 (Recording the Preferred Name); 16.2.2; 16.2.2.9.1; 16.2.2.9.2; 16.2.2.10; 16.2.2.10.1; 16.2.2.11; 16.2.2.11.1; 16.2.2.12; 16.2.2.13; 16.2.2.14 (3 Oct 2013)
• Discussion paper: First issue v. latest (current) issue (3 Oct 2013)
• Illustrative content and other augmentations: Discussion Paper (3 Oct 2013)
• Compilations of Works: Discussion paper (3 Oct 2013)
• Representing date of works and expressions in RDA: Discussion Paper (3 Oct 2013)
• Representing language of expressions in RDA: Discussion Paper (3 Oct 2013)
• Language of the Family (10.8) (3 Oct 2013)
• Revisions to instructions for production, publication, distribution and manufacture statements (2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10) (3 Oct 2013)
• Recording dates in more than one calendar (RDA 2.6.7.1, 2.6.9.1, 2.7.6.3, 2.8.6.3, 2.9.6.3, 2.10.6.3) (3 Oct 2013)
• Changes to instructions on liturgical works (6.30.1.5) (3 Oct 2013)
• Treatment of Choreographic Works in RDA (3 Oct 2013)
• Proposed revision to instructions 6.2.2.9.2, "Two or More Parts," 6.14.2.7.2, "Two or More Parts," 6.27.2.3, "Two or More Parts,"and 6.28.2.3, "Two or More Parts" (3 Oct 2013)
• Proposed revision to instruction 6.14.2.5, "Preferred Title Consisting Solely of the Name of One Type of Composition" (3 Oct 2013)
• Proposed revisions for medium of performance (RDA 6.15.1, 6.28.1.9, 6.28.1.10, and Appendix E.1.1) (3 Oct 2013)
• Addition of the Copyright holder relationship – Amendments to RDA 21.6.1.1 and Appendix I (2 Oct 2013)
• Compilers and editors of compilations – Amendments to RDA 20.2.1 (16 Sep 2013)
• Qualifications after an identifier – Amendments to RDA 2.15.1.7 (16 Sep 2013)
• Revision proposal for RDA instructions for treaties (16 Sep 2013)
• Treatment of Subjects in RDA (16 Sep 2013)
• Revision of 9.8.1.3, 9.9.1.3, 9.10.1.3, 9.11.1.3, 10.5.1.3, 11.3.1.3, 11.13.1.3, 16.2.2.4, 16.2.2.9.2, B.1, B.11 to eliminate use of abbreviations for places (16 Sep 2013)
• Revision of RDA 11.4 and 11.3 and Glossary (16 Sep 2013)
• Revision of RDA 11.7 and 11.13 (16 Sep 2013)
• Revision of RDA 9.6 (16 Sep 2013)
• Revision of RDA 11.13.1.8.2 (16 Sep 2013)
• Revision of Appendix D regarding capitalization (16 Sep 2013)
• Revision of RDA 1.7.3 (Punctuation) (16 Sep 2013)
• RDF representation of RDA relationship designators: a follow-up discussion paper (16 Sep 2013)
• Attributes of manifestations: Instructions for more than one instance of an element (16 Sep 2013)
• Compilations in RDA chapter 6, Discussion paper (5 Oct 2012)
• Revision of RDA 6.21 (Other distinguishing characteristics of a legal work) and 6.29.1.33 (Additions to access points representing treaties, etc.) (5 Oct 2012)
• Initial Articles in Place Names (RDA 16.2.2.3) (5 Oct 2012)
• Revision of RDA 2.5.1.4, Recording Edition Statements (5 Oct 2012)
• Revision of RDA 2.11.1.3 (Recording Copyright Dates) (5 Oct 2012)
• Revision of RDA 6.15.1.3 (Recording Medium of Performance) (5 Oct 2012)
• Hearings in RDA 19.2.1.1.1 (5 Oct 2012)
• Revision of RDA 3.19.3 for video encoding formats and addition of a new element for optical disc characteristics (5 Oct 2012)
• Machine-Actionable Data Elements in RDA Chapter 3: Discussion Paper (5 Oct 2012)
• Proposed revision of RDA 2.1.2.2 and 2.1.2.3, Basis for Identification of the Resource (5 Oct 2012)
• Proposed Revisions of RDA instructions on Sources of Information (RDA 2.2.2.1–2.2.2.4) (5 Oct 2012)
• 3.11.4 Layout of tactile text and 3.13 Font Size (5 Oct 2012)
• Terms of rank, honour or office: Revision of RDA 9.4.1 and 9.19.1 (5 Oct 2012)
• Other designation associated with the person: Revision of RDA 9.0, 9.6.1 and 9.19.1 (5 Oct 2012)
• Fuller forms of name: Revision of RDA 9.19.1.4 (5 Oct 2012)
• Other place associated with the person: Revision of RDA 9.11 (5 Oct 2012)
• Change to Definition of 9.16.1.1 Profession or Occupation (5 Oct 2012)
• Change to 19.3 and Appendix I. Recording relationships to persons, families, and corporate bodies associated with works of unknown or uncertain origin. (5 Oct 2012)
• Change to 2.2.4 to remove parallel title proper (5 Oct 2012)
• Date of expression – Revision of RDA 6.10.1.1 and 6.10.1.3 (5 Oct 2012)
• Language of expression – Revision of RDA 6.11, 6.11.1.3, 6.11.1.4, 7.12.1.3, 26.1.1.3 (5 Oct 2012)
• Musical arrangements – Revision of RDA 6.18.1.4 and 6.28.3.2.1 (5 Oct 2012)
• Musical arrangements: discussion paper (5 Oct 2012)
• Revision of RDA 2.5.2.1, 2.5.2.2 Designation of Edition, addition in Chapter 2 of a core element for Format of Notated Music Statement, revision of affected chapters in RDA (0.6.2, Core Elements - Section 1: Recording Attributes of Manifestation and Item; 1.3, Core Elements; 1.4, Language and Script; 2.2.4, Other Sources of Information; 2.20 Note on Manifestation or Item; 18.6, Note on Persons, Families, and Corporate Bodies Associated with a Resource; Appendix A; Glossary). (5 Oct 2012)
• Serials and changes in mode of issuance – is a new description always needed? (5 Oct 2012)
• Revision to RDA 11.13.1.8 (Number, date, location, of a conference, etc.) (5 Oct 2012)
• Reorganization of instruction on saints in 9.2.2.18 (5 Oct 2012)
• Additional exception in 9.19.1.2 (Title or Other Designation Associated with the Person) for titles of religious rank (5 Oct 2012)
• Revision of RDA 3.19.7.3, Recording transmission speed (5 Sep 2012)
• Revision of RDA 11.5.1.3 (Recording Associated Institutions) and 9.13.1.3 (Recording Affiliations) (5 Sep 2012)
• Revision of RDA 2.12.8 and 2.12.16, regarding recording ISSNs (5 Sep 2012)
• Revision of RDA 6.28.1.9, Additions to access points representing musical works with titles that are not distinctive (5 Sep 2012)
• Revision of RDA instructions relating to librettos and lyrics for musical works (RDA 6.2.2.10.2, 6.27.4.2, Appendix I.2.1, and Glossary) (5 Sep 2012)
• Revision of RDA instructions for arrangements and adaptations of musical works (RDA 6.28.1.5.2 and 6.28.3.2.2) (5 Sep 2012)
• Proposed Revision of RDA Instructions for Government and Non-Government Corporate Bodies (5 Sep 2012)
• Proposed Revision of RDA 16.2.2 (Preferred Name for the Place) (5 Sep 2012)
• Instruction for choosing the preferred title for choreographic works (RDA 6.2.2.4) (5 Sep 2012)
• Proposed revision to instructions 6.14.2.7.2, "Two or More Parts," 6.14.2.8, "Compilations of Musical Works," and 6.28.2.3, "Two or More Parts" (5 Sep 2012)
• Proposed revision to instruction 6.28.1.11, "Additions to Access Points Representing Compilations of Musical Works" (5 Sep 2012)
• Proposed revision to instruction 6.16.1.3, "Recording Numeric Designations of Musical Works" (5 Sep 2012)
• Proposed revision to Appendix B.1 General Guideline to explicitly include the usage of units of measure expressed as symbols (5 Sep 2012)
• Performances – Addition of examples in RDA 6.12.1.3 and 6.27.3. (5 Sep 2012)
• Revision of RDA 1.6.2.2, and RDA 3.1.6.1 regarding change in media type of serials (5 Sep 2012)
• Major title changes for serials in Chinese, Japanese and Korean (RDA 2.3.2.13.1, ISBD A.2.6.1 and ISSN 2.3.1), discussion paper about the "first five words" rule (5 Sep 2012)
• Revisions to date associated with the person (RDA 9.3, 9.3.2, 9.3.3) (5 Sep 2012)
• Revisions to date associated with the corporate body (RDA 11.4, 11.4.3, 11.4.4, 0.6.4) (5 Sep 2012)
• Priority order of additions to authorized access points representing a person (9.19.1.1, 9.19.1.5, 9.19.1.6) (5 Sep 2012)
• Adjustment to exception for recording acronym/initialism titles in favor of base instruction (2.3.2.5, exception) (5 Sep 2012)
• Revision to RDA 9.3.1.3 (Recording Dates Associated with Persons), H.1 (B.C. and A.D. Dates), and associated examples to clarify recording date spans (5 Sep 2012)
• Reorganization of instructions for recording extent (3.4.1.3, 3.4.1.5) (5 Sep 2012)
• Revisions to change of name of jurisdiction or locality (RDA 11.3.3.4) (5 Sep 2012)
• Additional instructions for preferred sources and preferred titles in different languages or scripts (RDA 2.2.3.1 and 6.2.2.4) (5 Sep 2012)
• Revisions to RDA Chapter 6 to treat "Selections" as a work attribute (5 Sep 2012)
• Clarification of leaves and pages (3.4.5.2 and Glossary) (5 Sep 2012)
• Revisions to date associated with the person (9.3) when recording more than a year alone (5 Sep 2012)
• Review of 6JSC/ALA Rep/3: Vocabularies: Extent terms (29 Apr 2011)
• Revision to: Categorization of content and carrier RDA (31 Aug 2010)
• Issues deferred until after the first release of RDA: CILIP decisions (15 Jul 2010)
• Proposed revision of RDA chap. 6, Additional instructions for musical works and expressions (2 Feb 2009)
• Proposed revision of RDA chap. 6, Additional instructions for musical works and expressions (2 Feb 2009)
• RDA: Resource description and access - constituency review of full draft (26 Jan 2009)
• Consideration of proposals from the ISBD Review Group (1 Dec 2008)
• RDA: Resource Description and Access sections 2-4, 9 - constituency review of December 2007 draft (17 Mar 2008)
• Designation of roles in RDA (15 Mar 2008)
• Proposed revision of RDA chap.6, Additional instructions for musical works and expressions (15 Mar 2008)
• RDA: Resource description and access part A - consitituency review of June 2007 draft of chapters 6-7 (17 Sep 2007)
• Addition to "Other agreements involving jurisdictions" (31 Aug 2007)
• Bible uniform titles (2 Aug 2007)
• RDA: Resource description and access part A - Constituency review of March 2007 draft of chapter 3 (16 Jul 2007)
• Additions to RDA based on MARC 21 elements (19 Mar 2007)
• Change to AACR2 rule 5.5B1 (RDA 3.4.2.2.2) Extent of item for notated music, and Glossary definition of "Score" (19 Mar 2007)
• Numbering for serials: alternative instruction (19 Mar 2007)
• RDA: Resource description and access part A, chapters 6-7. Constituency review of June 2006 draft (25 Sep 2006)
• Categorization of content and carrier (18 Sep 2006)
• Rule revision proposals relating to technical description of digital media (18 Sep 2006)
• Video format characteristics (16 Sep 2006)
• List of specialist cataloguing manuals for RDA (15 Sep 2006)
• Bible uniform titles (14 Sep 2006)
• RDA part I internationalization (14 Sep 2006)
• Addition to Other agreements involving jurisdictions (7.9.5.5) (13 Sep 2006)
• Breton initial articles (AACR2 E.1A) (1 Sep 2006)
• Initial articles in Maori & Pacific Island languages (1 Sep 2006)
• Persistent identifiers and URLs (1 Sep 2006)
• Family names (26 Mar 2006)
• GMD/SMD Working Group: Proposal for content and carrier terms in RDA (26 Mar 2006)
• Persistent identifiers and URLs (26 Mar 2006)
• RDA part 1 internationalization (26 Mar 2006)
• RDA: Resource description and access part 1 - Constituency review of December 2005 draft; RDA: Resource description and access part 1 - Constituency review of January 2006 draft of Chapter 3 (20 Mar 2006)
• Levels of description, access, and authority control (30 Aug 2005)
• Rule proposals for musical format information (30 Aug 2005)
• Proposals to simplify AACR2 Ch.21 special rules (27 Aug 2005)
• Rule proposals for archival and manuscript sources (26 Aug 2005)
• Re: Call for proposals to simplify AACR2 Ch.21 special rules (1 Aug 2005)
• AACR3 (now RDA) Area 4 example of simplified rules (30 Jul 2005)
• A0 rules for what is being described, number of records, basis of description, sources; changes to A1.0 and A1.1B [in AACR3 draft] (19 Jun 2005)
• Editor's follow-up to constituency responses on focus of the description and sources of information [in AACR3 draft part 1] (19 Jun 2005)
• AACR3 - part 1 - Constituency review of December 2004 draft (28 Mar 2005)