Re: [RDA-L] Some more examples of qualified conventional collective titles

2013-12-23 Thread Adger Williams
2013 08:37:18 -0500 From: Adger Williams awilli...@colgate.edu Reply-To: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Some more examples of qualified conventional collective

Re: [RDA-L] Happy Holidays from this mountain top log house

2013-12-23 Thread J. McRee Elrod
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Re: [RDA-L] Happy Holidays from this mountain top log house

2013-12-23 Thread Gaye DAgata
Nice. I enjoy the views, but I've never been tempted to live among them. But I have always admired you mountain dwellers. Gaye D'Agata *“I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little

Re: [RDA-L] About the coming transfer of RDA-L

2013-12-20 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
Jamie, Two more questions about the forthcoming transfer of RDA-L: 1. Will the URLs for mails in the present archive still be working? For example, will http://www.mail-archive.com/rda-l@listserv.lac-bac.gc.ca/msg11767.html still retrieve your announcement of 18 December? I've sometimes

Re: [RDA-L] Some more examples of qualified conventional collective titles

2013-12-20 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
the CCTs for our local records. Adolfo -Original Message- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Adam L. Schiff Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 12:45 PM To:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA

Re: [RDA-L] Some more examples of qualified conventional collective titles

2013-12-20 Thread Bernhard Eversberg
Am 20.12.2013 13:37, schrieb Heidrun Wiesenmüller: I think the interesting point to note is that not everything which consists of several works by the same person is in fact a compilation of works. Rather, in the case of... This is the sort of casuistry we've never envied AACR users for.

Re: [RDA-L] Some more examples of qualified conventional collective titles

2013-12-20 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
We are talking about the level of the work here. The title of the manifestation is, of course, always recorded in the respective manifestation element. Heidrun Bernhard Eversberg wrote: Am 20.12.2013 13:37, schrieb Heidrun Wiesenmüller: I think the interesting point to note is that not

Re: [RDA-L] Some more examples of qualified conventional collective titles

2013-12-20 Thread Adger Williams
Aren't conventional collective titles really Form/Genre headings? (Poems. Selections, vs. Essays Selections, vs. Works Selections) Would they not serve their function less confusingly if we treated them that way? FWIW, my institution has been removed CCTs from LC records ever since the

Re: [RDA-L] Some more examples of qualified conventional collective titles

2013-12-20 Thread Bernhard Eversberg
Am 20.12.2013 14:32, schrieb Heidrun Wiesenmüller: We are talking about the level of the work here. The title of the manifestation is, of course, always recorded in the respective manifestation element. But you know that we had non of that casuistry in our rules? And for reasons that had been

Re: [RDA-L] Some more examples of qualified conventional collective titles

2013-12-20 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
Bernhard Eversberg wrote: But you know that we had non of that casuistry in our rules? And for reasons that had been discussed thoroughly for quite some time. Did we or our users suffer from that or were they pestering us for qualified contentional collective titles? Isn't it just the very

Re: [RDA-L] Some more examples of qualified conventional collective titles

2013-12-20 Thread James Weinheimer
difficult was suddenly very simple. That is why I suggested something new: the word cloud where those titles become obvious. http://blog.jweinheimer.net/2013/12/re-rda-l-collective-cities-that-is.html So the titles that are pretty much useless now *could* turn out to be useful (at least I think so

Re: [RDA-L] Some more examples of qualified conventional collective titles

2013-12-20 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
James Weinheimer wrote: On 12/20/2013 2:49 PM, Heidrun Wiesenmüller wrote: snip Adger Williams wrote: Aren't conventional collective titles really Form/Genre headings? (Poems. Selections, vs. Essays Selections, vs. Works Selections) Would they not serve their function less confusingly if

Re: [RDA-L] Some more examples of qualified conventional collective titles

2013-12-20 Thread James Weinheimer
On 12/20/2013 4:15 PM, Heidrun Wiesenmüller wrote: snip Are you really sure they can? My feeling is that up to now, both aims have been fulfilled only partly. Maybe this is what makes it so unsatisfactory. /snip I honestly don't think that is the real problem. For the public, the collective

Re: [RDA-L] Some more examples of qualified conventional collective titles

2013-12-20 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
James, Before making our records even more complicated (and committing more and more ever-disappearing resources) it would make sense to find out if collective uniform titles are/could be useful to the public and if not, why not, and then continue from there. Otherwise, we are all working on

Re: [RDA-L] Some more examples of qualified conventional collective titles

2013-12-20 Thread James Weinheimer
On 12/20/2013 5:13 PM, Heidrun Wiesenmüller wrote: snip Thanks, I wasn't aware of this LCRI (I'm afraid there's still a lot I don't know about Anglo-American cataloging). Indeed this sounds rather complicated and a lot of effort. Also, I'm not sure I've really understood its consequences:

Re: [RDA-L] Some more examples of qualified conventional collective titles

2013-12-20 Thread Tarango, Adolfo
Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Heidrun Wiesenmüller Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 4:37 AM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Some more examples of qualified conventional collective titles Adolfo, I've read up

Re: [RDA-L] Some more examples of qualified conventional collective titles

2013-12-20 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
Adolfo, My understanding of FRBR is that regardless of independent existence prior to its appearance, each poem, short story, song, etc., is considered a work in and of itself regardless of whether their creator considered them such. Since a compilation is simply defined as a gathering of

Re: [RDA-L] Some more examples of qualified conventional collective titles

2013-12-20 Thread Adam L. Schiff
Dec 2013 08:37:18 -0500 From: Adger Williams awilli...@colgate.edu Reply-To: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Some more examples of qualified conventional collective titles

Re: [RDA-L] About the coming transfer of RDA-L

2013-12-19 Thread Cynthia Warren
Thanks Di From: Diane Hillmann [mailto:d...@cornell.edu] Sent: 18 December 2013 07:40 PM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] About the coming transfer of RDA-L Jamie: Just a clarification on one statement in your message: On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 12:14 PM, James Hennelly

Re: [RDA-L] Some more examples of qualified conventional collective titles

2013-12-19 Thread Tarango, Adolfo
for our local records. Adolfo -Original Message- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Adam L. Schiff Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 12:45 PM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Some more

Re: [RDA-L] Identifying a person of religious vocation

2013-12-19 Thread Liba Levicek
: Thursday, December 19, 2013 2:19 PM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Identifying a person of religious vocation Thank you all for a very enlightening discussion of all the permutations of this problem. I will incorporate your suggestions into what I hope will be a useful

Re: [RDA-L] Some more examples of qualified conventional collective titles

2013-12-18 Thread Adam L. Schiff
-BAC.GC.CA To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Some more examples of qualified conventional collective titles Adam, These examples all seem to follow LC's interpretation of the first sentence of RDA 6.2.2.10, i.e. none of these collections was treated as being known under its own

Re: [RDA-L] Identifying a person of religious vocation

2013-12-18 Thread Moore, Richard
Is it possible that she might be Siostra Maria Goretti Nowak? http://gazetacz.com.pl/artykul.php?idm=432id=9957 It's hard to be certain, but this might be the same person as in this picture: http://martel-ksiazki.pl/image/cache/Ciasta_i_ciasteczka-500x500.jpg Regards Richard

Re: [RDA-L] 6.2.2.10 and 6.27.1.9

2013-12-17 Thread James Weinheimer
On 16/12/2013 21.09, Kevin M Randall wrote: snip Adam Schiff wrote: LC's policy, however, implies that the compiled work does not become known by its title except through the passage of time (e.g. Whitman's Leaves of Grass), and that for newly published compiled works, a conventional collective

Re: [RDA-L] 6.2.2.10 and 6.27.1.9

2013-12-17 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
James, All of these careful arrangements *completely disintegrated* when they were placed into the computer catalog. Since computers are rather mindless, the uniform title Works is now placed alphabetically under the author's name (W) and as a consequence, people are supposed to *actively

Re: [RDA-L] 6.2.2.10 and 6.27.1.9

2013-12-17 Thread James Weinheimer
On 17/12/2013 14.07, Heidrun Wiesenmüller wrote: snip But, is it possible to make collective uniform titles useful and functional for today's information tools? I believe they could and that people would appreciate it, but that would take complete reconsideration from the user's point of

Re: [RDA-L] 6.2.2.10 and 6.27.1.9

2013-12-17 Thread Gary Hough
Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Robert Maxwell Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 6:55 PM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] 6.2.2.10 and 6.27.1.9 I confess to having been part of the writing of the NACO Module 6 training materials, but the more

Re: [RDA-L] 6.2.2.10 and 6.27.1.9

2013-12-17 Thread Gary L Strawn
[mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Gary Hough Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 10:03 AM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] 6.2.2.10 and 6.27.1.9 While there is a theoretical sense in which an author can write only one complete works, in actual practice

Re: [RDA-L] 6.2.2.10 and 6.27.1.9

2013-12-17 Thread Robert Maxwell
been heretofore pursued--Eliza R. Snow, 1842. From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Gary Hough Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 9:03 AM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] 6.2.2.10 and 6.27.1.9

Re: [RDA-L] Identifying a person of religious vocation

2013-12-17 Thread Jennifer Gullickson
Hi Richard, I don't know how they do it in other countries, but here in the U.S., the person takes on a saint's name as their FIRST name. Whether the entire name is taken is dependent on how well known the saint is or if their order has others in the same monastery or priory who have taken

Re: [RDA-L] Collective cities

2013-12-17 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
Mac, Yes, I was only talking about collective titles as a subtype of the former uniform titles. It seems RDA calls this a conventional collective title. The glossary gives as the definition: A title used as the preferred title for a compilation containing two or more works by one person,

Re: [RDA-L] Collective cities

2013-12-17 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Heidrun quoted RDA: It seems RDA calls this a conventional collective title. The glossary gives as the definition: A title used as the preferred title for a compilation containing two or more works by one person, family, or corporate body, or two or more parts of a work (e.g., Works, Poems,

Re: [RDA-L] 6.2.2.10 and 6.27.1.9

2013-12-17 Thread Wilson, Pete
and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Adam L. Schiff Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 9:21 PM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] 6.2.2.10 and 6.27.1.9 no2013093410 Adémar, $c de Chabannes, $d 988-1034. $t Works. $k

Re: [RDA-L] Collective cities

2013-12-17 Thread Brenndorfer, Thomas
  -Original Message- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of J. McRee Elrod Sent: December-17-13 4:46 PM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Collective cities Heidrun quoted RDA

Re: [RDA-L] Identifying a person of religious vocation

2013-12-17 Thread Moore, Richard
Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Charles Croissant Sent: 17 December 2013 20:03 To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Identifying a person of religious vocation Richard, since you are dealing with a person in religion who may wind up being

Re: [RDA-L] 6.2.2.10 and 6.27.1.9

2013-12-16 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Heidrun posted: I am uncertain about the relationship of 6.2.2.10 (Recording the Preferred Title for a Compilation of Works of One Person, Family, or Corporate Body) and 6.27.1.9 (Additions to Access Points Representing Works) - both in theory and in practice. Can't comment on the theory,

Re: [RDA-L] 6.2.2.10 and 6.27.1.9

2013-12-16 Thread Chew Chiat Naun
A few comments on this very interesting thread. In MARC date qualifiers are ambiguous between works and expressions. Always sticking dates in $f with the old-style punctuation perpetuates this ambiguity. The problem affects not only conventional collective titles, but potentially also any work

Re: [RDA-L] 6.2.2.10 and 6.27.1.9

2013-12-16 Thread Wilson, Pete
and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Adam Schiff Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 6:19 AM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] 6.2.2.10 and 6.27.1.9 They are considered separate compilation works, assuming that they have different contents. The PCC NACO

Re: [RDA-L] 6.2.2.10 and 6.27.1.9

2013-12-16 Thread Adam L. Schiff
, Wilson, Pete wrote: Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 01:44:25 + From: Wilson, Pete pete.wil...@vanderbilt.edu Reply-To: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] 6.2.2.10 and 6.27.1.9 Adam--Can

Re: [RDA-L] 6.2.2.10 and 6.27.1.9

2013-12-16 Thread Bernhard Eversberg
16.12.2013 23:39, John Hostage: We need to be able to enter data in MARC fields without punctuation and let the punctuation be generated as necessary on output. The punctuation could even differ in different contexts. (We can dream, can't we?) This dream has long since been reality in

Re: [RDA-L] Bodleian/OLIS RDA materials

2013-12-14 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
I'd like to add my thanks for sharing this huge amount of work with the community. After having started on the Bodleian's documents, I'm most favourably impressed. These materials are very thorough with lots of helpful detail, easy to understand, and contain very good explanations even for

Re: [RDA-L] Bodleian/OLIS RDA materials

2013-12-13 Thread Jackie Johnson (Library Services)
Of Meehan, Thomas Sent: 13 December 2013 08:43 To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Bodleian/OLIS RDA materials Bernadette, Thank you for sharing all this! It is very much appreciated. Shared open documentation has been indispensable to us so far in looking at RDA

Re: [RDA-L] addition to authorized access point for serial title

2013-12-10 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Patricia Fogler posted: holdings for 2009-2012, when it went to web-only I suggest a closed record (end date in 008, 264$c's, and 362). I would have a 264 1 for the first publisher, and 264 31 for the second. I would have a 785 pointing to the electronic continuation. Thus I am needing an

Re: [RDA-L] Relationship designator for corporate creator

2013-12-09 Thread FOGLER, PATRICIA A GS-11 USAF AETC AUL/LTSC
I have to say that I was going with creator myself after reading a few RDA-list comments. But putting it out locally to our bibliographers, it's been voted down in favor of author. So I guess it's going to vary from one library to another. As much of RDA appears to be doing. //SIGNED//

Re: [RDA-L] Relationship designator for corporate creator

2013-12-09 Thread Adam Schiff
of Washington Libraries -Original Message- From: FOGLER, PATRICIA A GS-11 USAF AETC AUL/LTSC Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 7:04 AM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Relationship designator for corporate creator I have to say that I was going with creator myself

Re: [RDA-L] Who grants the degree?

2013-12-09 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
Mac, Many thanks to yourself and your grandson! My interpretation is that the power of actually granting the degree resides with the university only. But obviously the faculty must tell the representative of the university (the chancellor) who is to be decorated in this way. I think this is

Re: [RDA-L] Access to the knowledge of cataloging

2013-12-08 Thread James Weinheimer
On 12/7/2013 9:38 PM, Kevin M Randall wrote: snip No, the FRBR model uses the language of entity-relationship models. But that model is being used to illustrate the relationships of the elements. It's a language for understanding the data. But the model isn't talking at all about the

Re: [RDA-L] FRBR

2013-12-08 Thread James Weinheimer
On 12/7/2013 6:24 PM, J. McRee Elrod wrote: snip How bibliographic record exchange would work when full manifestation records no longer exist, and collections have differing manifestations of works, I've not seen discussed. /snip Yes, I have not seen this issue discussed either. Just as

Re: [RDA-L] 7.9 Dissertation/Thesis and FRBR

2013-12-08 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Heidrun said: I know that the second case was treated differently under AACR2. You wouldn't give a dissertation note (MARC 502), but a general note (MARC 500) saying something like Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral) Unril/unless we have actual work records (as in

Re: [RDA-L] Access to the knowledge of cataloging

2013-12-07 Thread James Weinheimer
On 12/6/2013 11:12 PM, Kevin M Randall wrote: snip James Weinheimer wrote: To be fair, the original version of FRBR came out before (or at least not long afterward) the huge abandonment by the public of our OPACs. Google had barely even begun to exist when FRBR appeared. Still, there could have

Re: [RDA-L] FRBR

2013-12-07 Thread J. McRee Elrod
James said: FRBR proposes to take out data that is now in the manifestation record and put certain parts of it into a work instance, while other data will go into an expression instance. Bibframe has work and instance data, no expression category. What are different expressions in FRBR/WEMI

Re: [RDA-L] Access to the knowledge of cataloging

2013-12-07 Thread Kevin M Randall
James Weinheimer wrote: FRBR proposes to take out data that is now in the manifestation record and put certain parts of it into a work instance, while other data will go into an expression instance. No. Most emphatically, NO. This is at the heart of your fundamental misunderstanding of

Re: [RDA-L] Access to the knowledge of cataloging

2013-12-07 Thread Kevin M Randall
James Weinheimer wrote: Designers of relational databases want to make their databases as efficient as they can, and one way to do that is by eliminating as much duplication as possible. This is what FRBR proposes. No, the FRBR model uses the language of entity-relationship models. But that

Re: [RDA-L] Access to the knowledge of cataloging

2013-12-06 Thread Bernhard Eversberg
06.12.2013 09:12, James Weinheimer: I do believe that FRBR is the main enemy (to use your term). Why? Because everything, including RDA and the new formats, etc. all state explicitly that this is what they are aiming for, even though the model has never been proven to be what people want. Why

Re: [RDA-L] Relationship designator for corporate creator

2013-12-06 Thread FOGLER, PATRICIA A GS-11 USAF AETC AUL/LTSC
@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Relationship designator for corporate creator I agree that author is unsatisfactory as a relationship designator for a corporate body. I don't think it meets most users' expectations of what an author is. ... When we enter this sort of exhibition

Re: [RDA-L] Publication/distribution/manufacturer statement

2013-12-06 Thread Jack Wu
When all elements are lacking, and there's no RDA provision, I suppose you can for the time being at least, go back to AACR: Just use: S.L. : s.n., n.d. Until no mixed record or coding is allowed, or a 264 5 should come along. Jack Jack Wu Franciscan University of Steubenville Brenndorfer,

Re: [RDA-L] Publication/distribution/manufacturer statement

2013-12-06 Thread Brenndorfer, Thomas
Public Library From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Jack Wu Sent: December-06-13 11:07 AM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Publication/distribution/manufacturer statement When all elements

Re: [RDA-L] Publication/distribution/manufacturer statement

2013-12-06 Thread Myers, John
NO, NO, NO!!! (Yes, the vehemence is intentional and warranted at the gross contravention of RDA's stipulations in this matter.) RDA explicitly eliminates the use of AACR2's Latin abbreviations of [S.l. : s.n.]. The use of [n.d.] from AACR1 was eliminated in AACR2. There is provision in RDA to

Re: [RDA-L] Publication/distribution/manufacturer statement

2013-12-06 Thread Jack Wu
Forgot, that WAS the good old days. Jack Myers, John mye...@union.edu 12/6/2013 11:31 AM NO, NO, NO!!! (Yes, the vehemence is intentional and warranted at the gross contravention of RDA's stipulations in this matter.) RDA explicitly eliminates the use of AACR2's Latin abbreviations of [S.l.

Re: [RDA-L] Relationship designator for corporate creator

2013-12-06 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Patricia posted: We're not happy with |e author either. We've been using a staggered |e author, |e issuing agency I agree with you that author seems strange applied to a corporate body, and will seem strange to our patrons. I assume you are unhappy with $eissuing body alone, since it is not

Re: [RDA-L] Publication/distribution/manufacturer statement

2013-12-06 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Jack Wu said: you can for the time being at least, go back to AACR: Just use: S.L. : s.n., n.d. AACR2 did no have n.d.. One was supposed to guess, even [19--?]. RDA provides [Place of publication not identified] etc. Our cataloguers are instructed to never use those long uninformative

Re: [RDA-L] Access to the knowledge of cataloging

2013-12-06 Thread Kevin M Randall
Bernhard Eversberg wrote: Thus, considering that much of what FRBR promises is reality already FRBR doesn't promise anything. It just describes what was always being done, and shaped into a model to help us better understand what was being done. The newer functionalities we are seeing, such

Re: [RDA-L] Publication/distribution/manufacturer statement

2013-12-06 Thread Jack Wu
Of course Mac and others are right, there's no n.d. in AACR2, and to guess a place and a date is better than no information and Not Identified. Still I wonder, if I know just 1 place and 1 date, as with much legacy data, whether they are of publication, or distribution, or just copyright will

Re: [RDA-L] FRBR

2013-12-06 Thread J. McRee Elrod
James said: The structure of the card catalog allowed people to do the FRBR user tasks (where--for those who understood--people really and truly could find/identify/select/obtain works/expressions/manifestation/items by their authors/titles/subjects (or at least they could if the catalogers

Re: [RDA-L] FRBR

2013-12-06 Thread Cindy Wolff
If I want an English translation of a work, why would I want to know about the original and other translations? I think the operative word here is I. What if someone else wants to know, either a researcher or a library staff member doing collection development? The catalog serves many purposes

Re: [RDA-L] FRBR

2013-12-06 Thread Wagstaff, D John
-244-4070 e-mail: wagst...@illinois.edu From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Cindy Wolff Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 3:23 PM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] FRBR If I want an English

Re: [RDA-L] Access to the knowledge of cataloging

2013-12-06 Thread James Weinheimer
On 12/6/2013 7:12 PM, Kevin M Randall wrote: snip FRBR doesn't promise anything. It just describes what was always being done, and shaped into a model to help us better understand what was being done. The newer functionalities we are seeing, such as the faceting in Jim's Hamlet example, are

Re: [RDA-L] FRBR

2013-12-06 Thread Kevin M Randall
/ Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Cindy Wolff Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 3:23 PM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] FRBR If I want an English translation of a work, why would I want to know about the original and other

Re: [RDA-L] Access to the knowledge of cataloging

2013-12-06 Thread Kevin M Randall
James Weinheimer wrote: To be fair, the original version of FRBR came out before (or at least not long afterward) the huge abandonment by the public of our OPACs. Google had barely even begun to exist when FRBR appeared. Still, there could have been a chapter on the newest developments back

Re: [RDA-L] FRBR

2013-12-06 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Kevin said: FRBR is *not* about user displays. At all. Nor is RDA about display. But isn't user display the end result of what we do, and what must concern us? What's the point if our efforts don't result in intelligible displays? It would seem to me the basic functional requirement of

Re: [RDA-L] Access to the knowledge of cataloging

2013-12-05 Thread Bernhard Eversberg
04.12.2013 21:07, Laurence S. Creider: If I were a business or business group thinking about adopting a new standard and had a choice between the costs of RDA and a community standard that was largely open, I probably would not choose RDA even if it were markedly superior to the other

Re: [RDA-L] Access to the knowledge of cataloging

2013-12-05 Thread James Weinheimer
On 12/5/2013 9:03 AM, Bernhard Eversberg wrote: snip 04.12.2013 21:07, Laurence S. Creider: I think that the most we can hope for is for other content standards that we can make compatible to RDA so that data can be exchanged in the other format. We have to realize that schema.org,

Re: [RDA-L] 240 uniform title

2013-12-04 Thread FOGLER, PATRICIA A GS-11 USAF AETC AUL/LTSC
and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Adam Schiff Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 1:08 PM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] 240 uniform title Patricia, If the combination of author + title is identical to another work

Re: [RDA-L] Access to the knowledge of cataloging

2013-12-04 Thread Arakawa, Steven
[mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Kevin M Randall Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 2:54 PM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Access to the knowledge of cataloging John Hostage wrote: I think what he meant was, what use is it to have access to the PSs if you can't

Re: [RDA-L] Access to the knowledge of cataloging

2013-12-04 Thread Breeding, Zora
-Original Message- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Arakawa, Steven Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 3:42 PM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Access to the knowledge of cataloging I

Re: [RDA-L] Access to the knowledge of cataloging

2013-12-04 Thread James Hennelly
, December 04, 2013 4:13 PM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Access to the knowledge of cataloging Is this Kindle version updated? That may be what is meant by less than full range of content as the subscription product. If so, it would be equivalent in content to the print

Re: [RDA-L] Access to the knowledge of cataloging

2013-12-04 Thread Arakawa, Steven
Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Breeding, Zora Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 5:13 PM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Access to the knowledge of cataloging Is this Kindle version updated? That may be what is meant by less than full

Re: [RDA-L] Faculty in 7.9.3.3

2013-12-03 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] on behalf of John Hostage [host...@law.harvard.edu] Sent: 02 December 2013 22:04 To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Faculty in 7.9.3.3 RDA appendix I.2.2 has

Re: [RDA-L] Faculty in 7.9.3.3

2013-12-03 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
John, I think the RDA instruction was probably worded that way to allow freedom to record whatever feels most useful and to take into account varying amounts of information available. In most cases it's enough to record the university name, but some libraries feel very particular about

Re: [RDA-L] Faculty in 7.9.3.3

2013-12-03 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
Mac, Another of those ambiguous English words. It can mean the teaching staff of an educational institution. But in this context, it means a subunit of a university which grants degrees. In other words, the body which granted the degree should be in 502. $b. (...) The institution in

Re: [RDA-L] Habilitation theses

2013-12-03 Thread M. E.
Heidrun Wiesenmüller wiesenmuel...@hdm-stuttgart.de wrote: The other day, we were wondering how habilitation theses should be treated under RDA. These are quite common in Germany. In case you're not familiar with this European concept: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habilitation I don't have

Re: [RDA-L] Habilitation theses

2013-12-03 Thread Benjamin A Abrahamse
Since habilitation is not an Anglo-American institution, I would be surprised indeed if RDA discusses it. (Just to confirm--searching the Toolkit for habilitation or any of its variants returns no hits.) So I think this is an area where the (Continental) European cataloging community will have

Re: [RDA-L] Faculty in 7.9.3.3

2013-12-03 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Heidrun asked: Have you got a good example for such a school/faculty which actually grants its own degrees ... When next in my doctor's office, I will check his degree on the wall. We will note and trace (500/710) the department, and faculty adviser (500/700$epraeses), if the client wishes,

Re: [RDA-L] 240 uniform title

2013-12-03 Thread Adam Schiff
Patricia, If the combination of author + title is identical to another work then a 240 would be needed to differentiate this work from others. Typically only a year is used, not year month date. You only break the conflict when there already is one, not when you expect/suspect there will be

Re: [RDA-L] Habilitation theses

2013-12-03 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
Ben, You're right. We'll try and work something out. One idea which has already come up is defining an additional element which would express the character of a thesis instead of a specific degree. But isn't it amazing how these cultural differences pop up at the most unexpected places. I

Re: [RDA-L] Faculty in 7.9.3.3

2013-12-03 Thread John Hostage
] On Behalf Of Heidrun Wiesenmüller Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 11:39 To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Faculty in 7.9.3.3 John, I think the RDA instruction was probably worded that way to allow freedom to record whatever feels most useful and to take into account

Re: [RDA-L] RDA Toolkit Price Change

2013-12-03 Thread Cindy Wolff
Really? Has anyone out there in the industry even noticed? What *might* get noticed is a change in communication formats, but not in rules. This is what I have been thinking about for a while as I read these discussions: What if we gave a standard and nobody came, but some other powerful,

Re: [RDA-L] Faculty in 7.9.3.3

2013-12-03 Thread Thomas Berger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 03.12.2013 17:38, schrieb Heidrun Wiesenmüller: but the Fakultaet fuer Agrarwissenschaften would be an example of a faculty. It's definitely a faculty, but does it fit the text of the instruction: the granting institution or faculty?

Re: [RDA-L] Relationship designator for corporate creator

2013-12-03 Thread Finnerty, Ryan
@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Relationship designator for corporate creator Neither an issuing body nor a host institution is a creator in RDA, so using those relationship designators in 110 fields is not correct. Works are not named by combining the authorized access point for issuing

Re: [RDA-L] Relationship designator for corporate creator

2013-12-03 Thread M. E.
Finnerty, Ryan rfinne...@ucsd.edu wrote: What if you have an entity that has multiple roles, one at the creator level and the other at another level (e.g. author and publisher)? Would it be acceptable to use relationship designator for both roles in a 1XX, like this: 110 2_ Geological

Re: [RDA-L] Faculty in 7.9.3.3

2013-12-02 Thread J. McRee Elrod
In article 529c5974.5010...@hdm-stuttgart.de, you wrote: I'm not quite certain about the meaning of faculty in the element Dissertation or Thesis Information. Another of those ambiguous English words. It can mean the teaching staff of an educational institution. But in this context, it means

Re: [RDA-L] Relationship designator for corporate creator

2013-11-30 Thread Adam L. Schiff
The corporate body is the creator of the work. The relationship designator would either be author or if you preferred to use the element name (see the PCC guidelines on relationship designators), creator. Adam Schiff University of Washington Libraries On Sat, 30 Nov 2013, Wilson, Pete wrote:

Re: [RDA-L] Relationship designator for corporate creator

2013-11-30 Thread Adam L. Schiff
On Fri, 29 Nov 2013, J. McRee Elrod wrote: Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 20:23:35 -0800 From: J. McRee Elrod m...@slc.bc.ca Reply-To: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Relationship

Re: [RDA-L] Treatment of alternative formats in RDA

2013-11-29 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Audrey Williams asked: if a print edition of an E-book is already in the database, is it better to add a link to the E-book on the bibliographical record of the print expression or add a new bibliographical record ... Add a new record. The fixed fields would differ, as would the 33X media

Re: [RDA-L] Treatment of alternative formats in RDA

2013-11-29 Thread Myers, John
Different carriers constitute different manifestations, warranting separate records. As Mac Elrod responded, the physical descriptions would be different. The single-record/multi-version approach had an appeal at one point, primarily to avoid presenting patrons with multiple records for a single

Re: [RDA-L] Relationship designator for corporate creator

2013-11-29 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Pete Wilson asked: Here's what I hope is a quick question. Say you're cataloging an exhibition= n catalog that is legitimately entered under corporate body--e.g., a museum= . The museum put on the exhibit, published the catalog and owns all the ar= t involved. What is the appropriate

Re: [RDA-L] Relationship designator for corporate creator

2013-11-29 Thread Wilson, Pete
with it. Pete From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] on behalf of J. McRee Elrod [m...@slc.bc.ca] Sent: Friday, November 29, 2013 10:23 PM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L

Re: [RDA-L] Relationship designator for corporate creator

2013-11-29 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Pete Wilson said: This might not be as important if PCC policy weren't to use relationship designators for all creators. If you don't like any of the more exact terms, your best option would seem to be to use $ecreator. It's not in one of the lists, but we've been told in the absence of an

Re: [RDA-L] Deadlines reminder

2013-11-28 Thread Danskin, Alan
Judy, Thanks for this. It is very helpful. I am going to be (even) late(r) with the outstanding EURIG responses, as I simply have not had time to look at them since last week. I don't think this should hold up the two that have already been agreed. Alan From: Resource Description

Re: [RDA-L] The meaning of 372 Field of Activity

2013-11-27 Thread Patricia Juez
Robert Bratton Enviado el: jueves, 14 de noviembre de 2013 22:41 Para: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Asunto: Re: [RDA-L] The meaning of 372 Field of Activity Hi John, I have run into situations where I thought a corporate body or personal should be a field of activity. If someone has written

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