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• The committee supports implementing of the international cataloguing standards at the Finnish libraries. The committee creates policy statements and application profiles in close co-operation with the other national expert groups as well as the Cataloguing standard service of the National Library of Finland.
• The committee replies to requests for comments on the standards by the international standard networks. The committee also forwards comments on the standards from the national expert groups to the international networks.
• The committee is a part of the national network for sharing and clustering of the know-how about the cataloguing standards.
• The standards in focus are:
  • Resource Description and Access (RDA)
  • International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD)
  • International Cataloguing Principles (ICP)
  • Library Reference Model (LRM)

The main areas of interest on the term 2020-2021:

• Support Supporting the adapting adoption of the renewed RDA Toolkit
• Encourage Encouraging the structural change in descriptive metadata
• Learning more about other than cataloguing standards and other than descriptive metadata
• Defining quality requirements for the bibliographic metadata produced by AI (artificial intelligence)

SendPlease, please, send questions and comments to the Cataloguing standard committee at kuvailustandardit-posti ät helsinki.fi