IFLA Metadata 
                      Newsletter 
                                  
                 Volume 7, Number 2, December 2021 
                                  
                        The Bibliography Section 
                        The Cataloguing Section 
                    Subject Analysis and Access Section 
                                  
                                  
                            ISSN 2414-3243 
                                                          
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                                                                         Volume 7, Number 2, December 2021 
                                                                                            Report from the National Library of Latvia 
                                                                                            on      Terminology           Conference          2021 
                                                                                            “Interoperability  of  Data  of  Cultural 
             Table of Contents                                                              Heritage Institutions in the Digital Space: 
                Letter from the Chairs ...................................4                 Terminological  Aspect”,  on  October  8, 
                Section News .................................................6             2021 ......................................................... 41 
                National and Regional News.......................18                         News from the RDA Steering Committee
                                                                                             ................................................................. 42 
                   News from Library and Archives Canada                                 Standards News........................................... 46 
                    .................................................................18     50 years of ISBD and more… ................... 46 
                   News from the Library of Congress ........19                             IFLA Library Reference Model and LRMoo 
                   News from China .....................................24                  Update ..................................................... 49 
                   News from Egypt .....................................25                  Collection description in RDA ................. 50 
                   News from Finland ..................................26                New Members ............................................. 54 
                   News from Germany ...............................27                
                   News from Japan .....................................28 
                   News from the Netherlands ...................30 
                   News from Russia ....................................32 
                Meeting Reports ..........................................35 
                   Report  of  IFLA  Subject  Analysis  and 
                   Access        Section        Representative           to 
                   American         Library       Association         Core 
                   Subject  Analysis  Committee  on  the 
                   American             Library           Association’s 
                   Committee on Cataloging .......................35 
                   DARIAH  Bibliographical  Data  Working 
                   Group Workshop on September 30, 2021
                    .................................................................37 
                   Dewey Decimal Classification – 10 years 
                   in Sweden ................................................39 
                   The International Scientific and Practical 
                   Conference  "Library  Science  in  the  XXI 
                   century:            content,           organization, 
                   digitalization and Scientometry" was held 
                   at the Russian State Library ....................39 
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           Bibliography Section:                                        Subject Analysis and Access: 
                   Jay Weitz                                                    Caroline Saccucci 
                   Senior Consulting Database Specialist,                       Chief, U.S. Programs, Law, and Literature 
                   WorldCat Metadata Quality, OCLC, USA                         Division, Library of Congress, USA 
                   Email:  weitzj@oclc.org                                      Email: csus@loc.gov 
                                                                                 
           Cataloguing Section:                                                 Drahomira Cupar 
                   Marja-Liisa Seppäla                                          University of Zadar, Croatia 
                   Development Manager, National Library of                     Email: dcupar@unizd.hr 
                   Finland                                                       
                   Email:  marja-liisa.seppala@helsinki.fi               
                    
                   Priscilla Pun 
                   University of Macau Library, China 
                   Email: nipun@umac.mo  
                    
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                                                                 Volume 7, Number 2, December 2021 
           LETTER FROM THE CHAIRS 
                                                                            revision of MulDiCat for English terms, which will 
           Dear colleagues,                                                 allow to launch a revision of the International 
                                                                            Cataloguing Principles. The Bibliography section’s 
                                                                            National Bibliographic Register comparative charts 
           There has been a flurry of activities since the last             and tables now include all available data from the  
           Newsletter was issued.                                            
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                                                                            48 countries currently in the Register , and the 
           This summer, IFLA held its first virtual WLIC                    incoming team’s efforts will be focused on getting 
           meeting. Our Sections organized open sessions that               new and updated profiles, especially from under-
           received good attendance and positive feedback.                  represented regions. The new Common Practices 
           The Subject Analysis and Access and Bibliography                 for National Bibliographies in the Digital Age will 
           Sections collaborated on a session titled Subject to             enter its cycle of permanent revision and updating 
           change (see blog entry here), the Cataloguing and                in 2022. The Subject Analysis and Access is 
           Bibliography Sections held a session that examined               continuing to monitor genre/form terminologies, 
           the question of Entity management, and the                       and on the competencies and skills required for 
           Committee on Standards held a session on                         information professions as they relate to knowledge 
           International Standards for a Digital World,                     organization systems, subject analysis, and subject 
           showcasing some of our sections’ resources, while                access. Two new projects have been initiated. The 
           the ISBD Review Group’s ISBD in transition session               first project is focusing on a survey of KOS 
           explored themes of metadata standards within and                 conceptual models and KOS data models and 
           beyond IFLA.                                                     proposing best practices, with especial attention 
                                                                            given to historical changes. The second is to 
                                                                            organize a workshop that will bring together 
           With the new IFLA structure implemented in August                information technology and subject analysis 
           2021, our Sections started planning their 2021-2023              communities of practice to better leverage 
           activities. Several projects are continuing and new              expertise for more effective automated indexing 
           projects are planned and started, working groups                 processes. 
           formed, and new collaborations across IFLA units                  
           and external groups are established. It is an exciting           We are grateful for the contributions of our 
           time and we are looking forward to the work within               outgoing standing committee members and wish 
           our individual teams but also in collaboration across            them well. We hope that they will stay connected 
           sections.                                                        with our groups. Our Sections welcomed new 
                                                                            standing committee members and we are looking 
           The sections have adopted new action plans for                   forward to their contributions and outcomes of our 
           2021-2023, in line with the IFLA strategic directions.           committees. 
           The actions will be published on the sections’                    
           webpages. For the Cataloguing section, we could                   
           highlight, among other long term actions as Names 
           of Persons and Anonymous Classics, the launching                                                     
           of a working group on needed competencies for                    1 See the series of articles by Pat Riva in previous issues 
           metadata librarians and the finalization of the                  of this Newsletter. 
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