That article was published in early 2007 and a few months later a couple of significant
announcements radically changed the direction and development of the RDA guidelines. The first was
the formation of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)/RDA Task Force, a collaborative effort
aimed at developing an RDA Dublin Core Application Profile.10 It is beyond the scope of this paper to
go into the details of the DCMI/RDA collaboration, but many feel this collaboration helped legitimize
the work of RDA, especially in the eyes of some of the non-library metadata communities, and will
make it much more likely that RDA will be useful in a semantic web or linked data context. Attracting
the interest of metadata communities outside of the library profession is one of the goals of the RDA
initiative and an important aspect for the future of libraries and library data.