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== Internationalization ==

RDA is in step with the Statement of International Cataloguing Principles published by IFLA in 2009, and updated in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ifla.org/publications/node/11015|title=IFLA -- Statement of International Cataloguing Principles (ICP) 2016|last=|first=|date=|website=IFLA|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2017-04-30}}</ref>

The Committee of Principles for RDA now the RDA Board, announced its commitment to internationalization of RDA in 2015.<ref name=":0" /> This is reflected in the new governance structure with representation based on the [[United Nations Regional Groups]], comprising, Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, North America, and Oceania.

As of May 2017, the RDA Toolkit has been translated from English into [[Catalan language|Catalan]], Chinese, Finnish, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rdatoolkit.org/translation|title=RDA in Translation|last=|first=|date=|website=RDA Toolkit|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2017-04-30}}</ref> RDA Reference is currently being translated into these languages as well as others including Arabic, Danish, Dutch, Greek, Hebrew, Swedish, and Vietnamese.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rdaregistry.info/termList/|title=RDA value vocabularies|last=|first=|date=|website=RDA registry|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2017-04-30}}</ref>

==ReceptionAdoption andof testingRDA==

In March 2012 the [[Library of Congress]] announced that it would fully implement RDA cataloging by the end of March 2013.<ref>{{cite press release|title=Library of Congress Announces Its Long-Range RDA Training Plan|date=2 March 2012|publisher=[[Library of Congress]]|url=http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/news_rda_implementation_date.html}}</ref> [[Library and Archives Canada]] fully implemented the standard in September 2013. Several other national libraries including the [[British Library]], [[National Library of Australia]], and [[Deutsche Nationalbibliothek]] alsoand plannedother tonational implementlibraries RDAhave insince 2013.<ref>{{citeimplemented press release | publisher=[[Library of Congress]] | url=http://wwwRDA.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/news_rda_implementation_date.html | title=Library of Congress Announces Its Long-Range RDA Training Plan | date=2 March 2012 }}</ref>

===Opposition===

In the U.S.United States, the cataloguing community expressed reservations about the new standard in regard to both the business case for RDA in a depressed economy and the value of the standard's stated goals.<ref name=LCbibfuture>{{cite web|last=Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control|title=Testing Resource Description and Access (RDA)|url=http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/rda/|accessdate=31 January 2011}}</ref> [[Michael Gorman (librarian)|Michael Gorman]], one of the authors of AACR2, was particularly vocal in expression of his opposition to the new guidelines, claiming that RDA was poorly written and organized, and that the plan for RDA unnecessarily abandoned established cataloging practices.<ref name=Gorman>{{cite web |last=Gorman |first=Michael |title=RDA: The coming cataloguing debacle |url=http://www.slc.bc.ca/rda1007.pdf |accessdate=31 January 2011}}</ref> Others felt that RDA was too rooted in past practices and therefore was not a vision for the future.<ref>[http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january07/coyle/01coyle.html Coyle, Karen and Diane Hillmann. Resource Description and Access (RDA): Cataloging rules for the 20th century. D-Lib Magazine, Jan./Feb. 2007, v. 13, no. 1/2.]</ref> In response to these concerns, the three [[United States]] national libraries (Library of Congress, [[United States National Library of Medicine|National Library of Medicine]], and the [[United States National Agricultural Library|National Agricultural Library]]) organized a nationwide test of the new standard.

===Results of the U.S. RDA test===

On 13 June 2011, the Library of Congress, the National Agricultural Library, and the National Library of Medicine released the results of their testing.<ref name=june2011report>{{cite web|title=Report and Recommendations of the U.S. RDA Test Coordinating Committee on the implementation of RDA—Resource Description & Access|url=http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/rda/|accessdate=15 June 2011}}</ref> The test found that RDA to some degree met most of the goals that the JSC put forth for the new code and failed to meet a few of those goals. The Coordinating Committee admitted that they "wrestled with articulating a business case for implementing RDA", nevertheless the report recommended that RDA be adopted by the three national libraries, contingent on several improvements being made.<ref name=june2011report /> The earliest possible date for implementation was given as January 2013, as the consensus emerging from the analysis of the test data showed that while there were discernible benefits to implementing RDA, these benefits would not be realized without further changes to current cataloging practices, including developing a successor to the [[MARC standards|MARC]] format.<ref name=june2011report /><ref>Library of Congress. [http://www.loc.gov/bibframe/news/framework-103111.html "A Bibliographic Framework for the Digital Age"]. 31 October 2011. Retrieved 26 October 2015.</ref>

Several other institutions were involved in the RDA test. Many of these institutions documented their findings in a special issue of [[Cataloging & Classification Quarterly]].<ref>{{cite journal|editor1-last=Hall-Ellis|editor1-first=Sylvia D.|editor2-last=Ellett|editor2-first=Robert O.|title=Special Issue: RDA Testing: Lessons Learned and Challenges Revealed|journal=Cataloging & Classification Quarterly|date=2011|volume=49|issue=7-8}}</ref>

===International reception===

RDA was developed to be an international standard and is in step with the Statement of International Cataloguing Principles published by IFLA in 2009. RDA is also in step with established international display and encoding standards.<ref name=introrda /> The emergence of the European RDA Interest Group (EURIG) and the addition of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek as a member of the JSC<ref>Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA. [http://www.rda-jsc.org/1111out.html "Outcomes of the Meeting of the Joint Steering Committee Held in Glasgow, Scotland, 1-4 November 2011"]. Retrieved 28 March 2012.</ref> signaled interest in RDA beyond the English-speaking library community.

==See also==