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Program of Work, September 2003 – April 2004

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Date Action Item Action Taken
Sept. 8-10 JSC Meeting in Brisbane ———
Oct. 1 Form Task Force on Specific Material Designations Done (11/25/03)
Oct. 14 Withdraw 4JSC/ALA/42 (Uniform Resource Names) Done (10/28/03):
ALA/42/ALA follow-up
Oct. 14 Response to 4JSC/Chair/71/Rev/Chair follow-up/6 Done (11/18/03):
Chair/71/Rev/Chair follow-up/6/ALA response
Dec. 5 Documents for CC:DA Meetings at ALA Midwinter due ———
Dec. 5 Revised proposal on German capitalization Document distributed (7/11/03):
CC:DA/Croissant/2003/1/Rev
Dec. 5 Revised proposal on Turkish word “bir” in Appendix E Document distributed (12/8/2003): CC:DA/CC:AAM/2003/1/Rev
Dec. 5 Documents from the Consistency Task Force Documents distributed: Area 2, Area 3, Area 4, Area 6, Area 7;
Prototype of Part 1
Dec. 5 Report of the Task Force on Rule 21.0D Document distributed (12/8/2003): CC:DA/TF/Rule 21.0D/4
Dec. 5 Follow-up to 4JSC/ALA/51, Coloured illustrations Document distributed (12/5/2003): CC:DA/Attig/2003/2/Follow-up
Dec. 5 New proposal to remove “entry” as “record” Deferred (again!)
Dec. 5 New proposal/discussion paper on rules for early printed monographs in Chapter 2 Document distributed (12/5/2003): CC:DA/Attig/2003/4;
action deferred; Task Force approved
Dec. 5 Discussion paper: Proposed changes to CCS policy on CC:DA representation Document distributed (12/8/2003): CC:DA/Chair/2003-2004/1
Dec. 5 Discussion paper: CC:DA Task Force(s) on Web presence and Web publications Document distributed (12/9/2003): CC:DA/Chair/2003-2004/2
Task Forces formed
Dec. 5 Orientation document for new CC:DA members and liaisons Document distributed (1/5/04): CC:DA/Chair/2003-2004/4
Dec. 15 Response to new proposal from LC on rule 21.29 Done (12/16/2003): LC/61/ALA response
Dec. 15 Response to Rule revisions/2004 Done (12/17/2003): Rule revision/2004/ALA rep response
Jan. 10 & 12 CC:DA Meetings at ALA Midwinter Meeting ———
Feb. 9 All proposals for April JSC Meeting are due! ———
Feb. 9 Follow-up to 4JSC/ALA/51, Coloured illustrations Done (1/23/04): ALA/51/ALA follow-up
Feb. 9 Revised proposals from Consistency Task Force Done (2/6/04): Area 2: ALA/49/Rev/2; Area 3: ALA/50/Rev/2; Area 4: ALA/53/Rev; Area 6: ALA/54/Rev
Feb. 9 New proposal from Consistency Task Force on Area 7 Deferred to finish proposal
Feb. 9 Prototype of Part 1 from Consistency Task Force Done (2/6/04): ALA/55
Feb. 9 New proposal to remove “entry” as “record” Deferred
Feb. 9 New proposal on German capitalization Done (2/3/04): ALA/56
Feb. 9 New proposal on Turkish word “bir” Done (2/3/04): ALA/57
Feb. 9 New proposal on relator terms (21.0D) Done (2/3/04): ALA/58
Feb. 13 Response to World-wide review of “Guidelines for OPAC Displays” Done (2/13/04): CC:DA/Chair/2003-2004/6
Feb. 16 Response to World-wide review of “Guidance on the Structure, Content and Application of Metadata Records for Digital Resources and Collections” Done (3/8/04): CC:DA/Chair/2003-2004/9
Feb. 16 Response to World-wide review of ISBD(G) Done (3/1/04): CC:DA/Chair/2003-2004/7
March 1 CCS Committee Charge Review: Questionnaire response Done (3/1/04): CC:DA/Chair/2003-2004/8
March 22 All responses to proposals for the April JSC Meeting are due! ———
March 22 Response to BL proposal on capitalization of single letters Done (8/27/03):
BL/7/BL follow-up/2/ALA response
March 22 Response to CILIP/BL paper on seriality of multiparts Response approved (3/30/04)
March 22 Response to Format Variations WG proposals on Chapter 25 Done (4/9/04): Chair/71/rev/Chair follow-up/7/ALA response
March 22 Response to sec. 5, of the LC response on FRBR terminology (Format) Done (3/15/04): Chair/76/.../LC response/ALA response
March 22 Response to LC document on FRBR terminology in the Glossary Done (3/15/04): LC/60/ALA response
March 22 Response to LC proposal for Part 3, Authority control Done (3/24/04) LC/54/Follow-up/2/Rev/ALA response
March 22 Response to Secretary document on optional rules Done (3/13/04): Sec/9/ALA response
April 19-21 JSC Meeting in Ottawa ———
May 1 Response to World-wide review of ISBD(ER) Document posted on IFLAnet
——— Background paper on SMDs TF formed
——— Review of examples for the new edition  

Rev. 4/9/04