Both AACR2 and MARC21 have been called "straight jackets".
We find RDA to be much more of a straight jacket than either.
For example, recently a separate item (offprint or reprint?) was
described as 730 02 $iContained in (work):$aJournal ...
That is a bald faced lie. Talk about forcing square pegs in into
round holes1 What's wrong with:
503 $aOriginally published in Journal ...
730 0 $aJournal ...
apart from 503 being mistakenly made obsolete?
The relationships among authors and works, manifestations and works,
are for too varied to be expressed in set "vocabularies". Creating
them seems like a Medieval exercise in theology.
Rules should be made for patrons, not for machines.
__ __ J. McRee (Mac) Elrod (m...@slc.bc.ca)
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