RDA Website Content Freeze (13th March) and Soft Launch Date (25th March)

Dear RDA Community,

After over a year of hard work and dedication from the team at Wicket, our new association management platform partner, and the RDA Secretariat, we are excited to report the soft launch of the long awaited RDA redesigned website on 25 March. After a decade of incremental upgrades, the underlying technology is completely redesigned to provide improved integration of communication channels and additional services - as well as a more modern and approachable look.

Due to the change of the underlying software solutions, RDA members will be asked to reset their passwords to validate their information in order to access members-only features of the website.

As reported in earlier communications, a content freeze on the current website will take place to enable the migration of existing data and content. This freeze is scheduled to take place from Wednesday, 13 March UTC 23:59. Although data and content can still be added during this period, they will not be automatically added to the new site. As such, we recommend you keep a record of any website updates you make on the current site (group page posts and emails, user comments, events, form submissions, etc.) so that you can easily repost them to the new platform.

Lastly, although the new site will be available to the public and members on 25 March, users may experience limited functionality with features of the site for the first few weeks as the Wicket development team works to roll out enhanced functionality to the new member registration system, group pages, etc. We ask that you be patient with the process. As we get closer to the launch date, questions regarding the content freeze can be directed to secretariat@rda-foundation.org.

Again, thank you for your patience and we look forward to introducing you to our new online presence in the next few weeks.

Regards,

RDA Secretariat