Australian Subject Analysis Project (ASAP)
The ASAP Working Group met on Thur 11 December to continue work on project planning and documentation. The projecty will commence with a small literature review and environmental scan, outlining the history of subject analysis in Australian libraries. More to come in the new year.
NSLA RDA Project
The project’s December update is now available on the NSLA website.
The Policy Statement Working Group has completed their review of their earlier entity work, and have started creating Policy Statements for the common elements across the Metadata Application Profiles. The Policy Statement Working Group will ramp up in early 2026 when the group splits into subgroups to create policy statements for the roughly 150 remaining elements used in the MAPs.
MARC Advisory Committee (MAC)
The (northern) Midwinter meeting of the MARC Advisory Committee (MAC) has been postponed from mid-December to mid-January due to delays resulting from the recent US government shutdown. In a new initative, ACORD and NLA will solicit and gather Australian library community feedback on MAC proposals. This feedback will be incorporated into the NLA’s formal response. Watch this space!
Also in MARC standards news, MARC21 Update No. 41 is now available. Of particular interest is the newly redefined 245 $z Title statement context note: ‘Note providing immediate explanatory or historical context for the title statement, for example, when it uses obsolete or misleading language or when it is from an unclear source.’ Examples are listed on the MARC Bibliographic website.
Other
The UK chapter of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO UK) has a wide variety of conference and webinar recordings on their YouTube channel.