[RDA-L] Uneven compilations

Hello, I have come across a number of resources, mainly art-related, which consist of a main text by one person with a number of very brief essays, interviews and suchlike by other people. Both the main and the minor components are about the same artist, exhibition, or movement, so the minor

Re: [RDA-L] Size of PDF files

Why not turn on the 34X fields for display in your catalog? This is where the data belongs in an RDA record. Adam Schiff Principal Cataloger University of Washington Libraries Seattle, WA 98195-2900 From: Felix, Kyley Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 8:13 PM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA

Re: [RDA-L] Size of PDF files

Hello Adam We have made a decision in this library not to show those fields as they may look like gobbledegook to the users. If the users could see the 347 field it would look like this from the OPAC: Digital file characteristics: text file PDF 3.97 MB rda Whereas if I put the information in

Re: [RDA-L] Uneven compilations

Dear Bernadette, We have been discussing very similar cases, which for us are usually exhibition catalogues. This matter has generated a lot of variation in our practice records and a lot of debate! To help us, we devised a flowchart for deciding whether something was a compilation or

Re: [RDA-L] Uneven compilations

PS. Sorry, I should have said more explicitly, the fact that the contributions by different authors and that there is clearly a main text is something we have decided to ignore at the Courtauld. As long as the texts have named authors - i.e. are not anonymous captions, bibliographies etc. -

Re: [RDA-L] Size of PDF files

The file types in RDA 3.19.2 do not convey anything that is not already conveyed by content type and media type, so there is no need for this element to be in RDA. In any event, a PDF file is not a text file as the term is commonly understood (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_file)

Re: [RDA-L] Statements of responsibility from various sources

Just a question here. How would this affect authority work when one is trying establish usage? On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 3:13 AM, Bernadette Mary O'Reilly bernadette.orei...@bodleian.ox.ac.uk wrote: Hello ** ** RDA gives an order of preferred sources of information for statements of

Re: [RDA-L] Use of brackets in RDA records

The RDA instructions say that you transcribe the form that's on the resource. Consider the various forms of name here: New York New York City New York, New York New York City, New York New York, N.Y. New York, NY These would all be correct in 264 $a, if they represented what appeared on the

[RDA-L] Interviews expressions

Hello, Can anyone elucidate where it would be correct to use the relators 'interviewer (expression) and 'interviewee (expression)? My original take was that the decision would depend on whether the interviewer or the interviewee was providing the real content. If the interviewer was

Re: [RDA-L] Interviews expressions

Does it depend on the context of an interview? If it is an interview for a research project, it is almost impossible for an interviewer to just prompt an interviewee to talk. An interviewer should clearly know his/her purpose, and is able to guide the direction based on an interviewer's

Re: [RDA-L] Interviews expressions

How about a translation of the interview? Steven Arakawa Catalog Librarian for Training Documentation Catalog Metada Services Sterling Memorial Library. Yale University P.O. Box 208240 New Haven, CT 06520-8240 (203) 432-8286 steven.arak...@yale.edumailto:steven.arak...@yale.edu From:

Re: [RDA-L] Size of PDF files

Kyley, Agreed that your display in 300 field does look clear and informative. Our ILS vendors really do need to catch up with display of data in the new MARC fields. We are able at least to suppress the $2 rda, which is really not useful to users at all other than catalogers. Adam From:

Re: [RDA-L] Use of brackets in RDA records

Narilyn Book posted: Ok, that makes sense but now question about the $a below. Sometimes it seems in the examples that the State is short formed as in Ann Arbor, MI, sometimes it is spelled out as in Berkley, California, sometimes the State is omitted, RDA has one transcribe what is there.

Re: [RDA-L] Electronic collation

Kyler Felix posted: I do wonder whether it is a waste of time though to put the file size again in 347 (c). It does seem redundant to have it in both 300 and 347, particularly if patrons don't see 347. What purpose does 347 serve? The same could be said for 336-338 if patrons don't see the

Re: [RDA-L] Uneven compilations

Bermadette asked: Would you treat such resources as compilations or as single works by the creators of the main texts? Or would you decide case-by-case, depending on the value of the minor components? If the main portion by one person is over 50% of the text, we would treat it as a monograph by

Re: [RDA-L] Interviews expressions

Bernadette asked: Can anyone elucidate where it would be correct to use the relators 'interviewer (expression) and 'interviewee (expression)? SLC most often uses interviewer and interviewee relator codes for oral history, whether print, electronic, or sound recording. We don't use the

Re: [RDA-L] Size of PDF files

Kyley, I'm saying that it's not necessary to give a file type as defined in RDA at all. For one thing, Digital file characteristic is not a core element. For another, the file types given in 3.19.2.3 consist of information that's already found in the content type and media type, and the

Re: [RDA-L] Size of PDF files

Hi John When I'm cataloguing, the fact that the document is a PDF file shows in the 300 field, but not in the 336 or 337 field. Perhaps that would be adequate and it is pointless repeating the information. This is how I'm doing it currently: 336 (a) text (b) txt ($2) rdacontent 337 (a)