Re: [RDA-L] Fwd: [RDA-L] Undifferentiated personal names: call for community discussion

2012-04-02 Thread Akerman, Laura
John Myers' suggestion was my first thought as well. We need to think about human differentiation in search results, as well as machine differentiation. In a context where multiple results appear associated with multiple people who happen to have the same name, giving users more clues could

Re: [RDA-L] Offlist reactions to the LC Bibliographic Framework statement

2011-11-08 Thread Akerman, Laura
I'm posting this to the BIBFRAME list as well since it seemed relevant... To me, the original main entry concept could more usefully be thought about in a larger context of for any field that is repeatable in a set of bibliographic description fields, is it useful to be able to designate one

Re: [RDA-L] Offlist reactions to the LC Bibliographic Framework statement

2011-11-08 Thread Akerman, Laura
-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Akerman, Laura Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 2:00 PM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Offlist reactions to the LC Bibliographic Framework statement I'm posting this to the BIBFRAME list as well since it seemed relevant... To me, the original main entry

Re: [RDA-L] [ACAT] Upper case in records

2011-05-16 Thread Akerman, Laura
Misha, I assume you've examined the Options in Word and un-checked anything that says replace as you type... ? It's in different places depending on what version, but I found it by opening Spelling and Grammar and clicking Options... Laura From: Resource Description and Access / Resource

Re: [RDA-L] Web catalog

2010-12-05 Thread Akerman, Laura
I've been uploading some test records and it got me thinking about catalog displays. ILS OPACs usually displays catalog data in at least 2 different ways: in a results list (either one field in a browse list, or often a few chosen bits in a brief display), and in a record display, which may be