On 05/17/2011 10:43 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
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Yeah, if RDA _required_ all capital titles, that might be bad. I
don't think anyone thinks all capital titles are preferable.
But in the actual real world eco-system, where we're often going to be
harvesting data from other sources rather
:* Re: [RDA-L] [ACAT] Upper case in records
To all who think case doesn't matter...
Let me explain why I care about all upper case text.
The Latin alphabet has letters that go above the line (t, d, l, b, f, h,
k) (also called ascenders), letters that go below the line (descenders)
(e.g
, May 16, 2011 1:19 PM
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Can anyone suggest how to effectively edit titles such as these to remove the
upper case and appropriately capitalize words in the title? A manual
title-by-title edit is a non-starter
[mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Stephen Early
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On AUTOCAT, a recent posting recommended http://thesentencecase.org/ . I copied
and pasted the titles below in its text
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On AUTOCAT, a recent posting recommended http
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[mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Akerman, Laura
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Misha,
I assume you've examined the Options in Word
Adger Williams wrote:
Those ...with poor vision find all-caps difficult to read
Mac Elrod wrote:
I would think either sentence or title capitalization, even with the occasional
error in lower casing an acronym or name, would be better for at least 245,
246, and 740. than all caps.
Even people
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To read the full text of a 2 or 3 hundred page monograph printed in
all caps would be tiresome. However, a line or two in a bibliographic
record is not much trouble
Matthew Beacom asked about this display:
Author:
HANKINS, JOHN ERSKINE.
http://traindb.library.yale.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?SC=AuthorSEQ=20110517150630PID=Ty5Sl6Vcndib-jw55hW71MesffEA9hSA=HANKINS,+JOHN+ERSKINE.
Title:
THE POEMS OF GEORGE TURBERVILE [electronic resource] / EDITED WITH
:* Re: [RDA-L] [ACAT] Upper case in records
I’d give it a 6 if I take my glasses off. And many people’s vision
cannot be corrected to any sharper than mine. I don’t think it’s up to
us to decide what can be read and by whom. There are websites that
discuss ADA accessibility and how to be sure your
=245 10$ai. The heterogeneity of rabbit anti-bovine serum albumin antibody.
Ii. Kinetic studies of antibody-hapten interactions$h[electronic
resource]
In the all capital version below, would not the title file under 'I.?
Having I. at the beginning with no filing indicator is not an all
caps
Adger Williams cautions:
Just a small caveat to Misha's plan for those who haven't tried it yet.
Many (all?) diacritical marks will come out reassigned to non-ALA characters
if you copy and paste into Word. (or at least this was true at some point.
Perhaps not true now?)
I have indeed seen
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[mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Schutt, Misha
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Adger Williams cautions:
Just a small caveat to Misha's plan for those who haven't tried
Can anyone suggest how to effectively edit titles such as these to remove the
upper case and appropriately capitalize words in the title? A manual
title-by-title edit is a non-starter since the above are the first 10 titles in
a set of about 15,000 records (only a few thousand in the set
From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access
[mailto:RDA-L@listserv.lac-bac.gc.ca] On Behalf Of Beacom, Matthew
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Can anyone suggest how to effectively edit
Can anyone suggest how to effectively edit titles such as these to
remove the upper case and appropriately capitalize words in the
title?
Dealing with upper case derived or cut and paste data:
It is not even necessary to
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