These should all represent variant access points on records for works (authority records in the current system). Part of the confusion may arise from the fact that examples under RDA instructions tend to exclude elements that are not addressed in the related instruction, so in the first two examples, the preferred access points for Canada and Japan, respectively, have been omitted. The works represented are "Canada. Species at Risk Act" [LC authority record no2007058176] and "Japan. Kenpō (1946)" [LC authority record n 82163354].
-----Original Message----- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Knight/osgoode Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 1:17 PM To: RDA-L@INFOSERV.NLC-BNC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Variant access points? This is this the example from the RDA draft that prompted my original question and which I still find confusing. The first two examples can be understood to be variant titles that one might enter in a 246. The third example for Treaty of Utrecht (1713) would obviously be used as 430s in an authority record. And although appearing under a section on 'variant titles, these are not a variant titles at all. They are variant access points. 6.25.1.3 Recording alternative linguistic forms as variant titles 6.25.1.3.1 > If the title recorded as the preferred title for a work has an alternative linguistic form(s), record the alternative linguistic form(s) as a variant title(s). Different language form Loi sur les espèces en péril (Preferred title recorded as: Species at Risk Act) Constitution (1946) (Preferred title recorded as: Kenpō (1946)) Freden i Utrecht (1713) Friede von Utrecht (1713) Perjanjian Utrecht (1713) Sporazum u Utrehtu (1713) Tractat d'Utrecht (1713) Traités d'Utrecht (1713) Tratado de Utrecht (1713) Trattato di Utrecht (1713) Utrechto sutartis (1713) Vrede van Utrecht (1713) Yutorehito jōyaku (1713) (Preferred title recorded as: Treaty of Utrecht (1713)) -----------------> F. Tim Knight, Head of Technical Services York University Law Library Osgoode Hall Law School [EMAIL PROTECTED] (416) 650-8403 Fax: (416) 736-5298 http://library.osgoode.yorku.ca ---------------------------------->
