August 2019 to March 2020

  • Project initiated by Billy Albina, then of Bard College, as Open Cataloging Rules
  • Core Committee develops the project’s vision, scope, principles, and draft element set

April 2020-December 2020

  • Project on hiatus

2021

  • Project revived by Denise Soufi, UNC-Chapel Hill, and Faye Leibowitz, formerly of the University of Pittsburgh
  • Resources for developing rules compiled
  • Publication platforms researched

2022

  • Series rules developed
  • Website developed on GitHub with help from the RBMS RDA Editorial Group
  • Name changed to Open Rules for Cataloging (ORC)

2023

  • Series rules published to the website
  • ORC incorporated and received federal non-profit status
  • First Executive Board formed

2024

  • Title rules published to the website
  • First elected Executive Board
  • Core Committee reorganized to Rules and Tech Committees

2025

  • Edition rules published to the website
  • Description Convention Source Code “orc” assigned by the MARC Standards Office
  • Imprint rules developed
  • Material Description draft started
  • ORC becomes an Open Library Foundation incubation partner