RDA’s AI Strategy and the Future Development of RDA

Abstract

This presentation outlines how RDA is addressing the increasing influence of artificial intelligence on cataloguing practices. It introduces the Joint RDA Board and RSC Working Group on AI, established to support libraries facing operational and economic challenges and to guide the responsible integration of AI into RDA workflows. The presentation and the white paper outline the general direction of the RDA's strategy in this area and a set of guiding principles for developing it.

(presented on 15 August 2025, at "Institutional Responses to AI: Libraries, Standards Bodies and Bibliographic Agencies in Transition" session)