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Re: AJL RAS CatCom agenda items

Nancy Sack
Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:40:05 -0700

I imagine the topic could generate considerable discussion. Remember the presentation Yossi made at the convention last year? I don't know if any progress has been made since then on devising standards or principles or guidelines or whatever. I know there's a lot better consistency among catalogers in the CJK community than in ours, but they don't have the bidirectionality problem. Chinese does have the complication of simplified and traditional characters, which is somewhat akin to our ketiv male/ketiv haser dilemma.
--Nancy

Jasmin Nof wrote:
Yes! I added it to the draft agenda (http://rascat.pbwiki.com/Agenda-June-2008). Do you have an idea how long you'd like us to devote to the topic?

Nancy Sack wrote:
Perhaps we could discuss and (maybe even come to a consensus about) the preferred form of heading for Hebrew script references in authority records? --Nancy