Dear friends, I’d like to thank you for participating in this discussion. We’ve heard back from LC, who after consulting with our colleagues in the IJ section, has reconsidered. This is the guidance the IJ section shared:
For a specific day, follow the Gregorian calendar equivalent provided on standard date converters such as Heb-Cal. Do not worry about the few hours between nightfall and midnight. If the exact hour of the person’s date of birth or death is provided and that happens to be before midnight, then the cataloger would go with the day before. But we cannot routinely add the “or” construction to the day the way we do for the year. So, while from a NACO and EDTF standpoint it is possible to record the uncertainty presented by Hebrew dates (and this is NLI practice), from an LC/PCC standpoint, it is not required to so. In other words, feel free to continue with your current practice. Happy cataloging, Jasmin From: Ahava Cohen <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2021 1:38 AM To: Shinohara, Jasmin <[email protected]>; 'Hebrew Name Authority Funnel' <[email protected]>; Marlene Schiffman <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: RE: [Heb-NACO] [EXT] - Re: 046 Hebrew date coding in NARs Yossi cited our old work practice of 5000 and adding 1240, so I thought I'd chime in with NLI's current policy within our authority database – like the recommendation which started this thread, if all we have is a Hebrew date we do code the two possible dates in 046. 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I am working on a draft with your responses and counter-arguments. Thanks, Jasmin From: Marlene Schiffman <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Monday, April 26, 2021 7:05 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>; Shinohara, Jasmin <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Cc: Hebrew Name Authority Funnel <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>; Galron, Joseph <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: RE: [EXT] - Re: [Heb-NACO] 046 Hebrew date coding in NARs Maybe we should send this correspondence to Paul Frank? Does he read Heb-NACO? Sent from Mail<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986__;!!KGKeukY!hx0QYJPGVeB1Jg3zYS6GBwNaCTscsu0IKhBpyWQYCPOEysnigfp0knYfauNJsvY6eIW0$> for Windows 10 From: Robert M. TALBOTT<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 23, 2021 8:39 PM To: Shinohara, Jasmin<mailto:[email protected]> Cc: Hebrew Name Authority Funnel<mailto:[email protected]>; Galron, Joseph<mailto:[email protected]>; Marlene Schiffman<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [EXT] - Re: [Heb-NACO] 046 Hebrew date coding in NARs **External Email** I was under the impression that rules didn't go into effect until published. On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 11:58 AM Shinohara, Jasmin <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Dear colleagues, I regret that the guidance coming from LC/PCC is not more popular among you. Nevertheless, our NACO work is bound by LC/PCC policy. As such, henceforth, please code Hebrew dates that are not substantiated by Gregorian dates as uncertain in NACO records. Thanks and kol tuv, Jasmin From: Heb-naco <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> On Behalf Of Robert M. TALBOTT via Heb-naco Sent: Friday, April 23, 2021 9:34 AM To: Galron, Joseph <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>; Hebrew Name Authority Funnel <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [Heb-NACO] 046 Hebrew date coding in NARs I agree with Yosi. There's no real benefit in ramping up the complexity of the 046 to cover the possibility that someone was born before sunset. Bob On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 8:50 PM Galron, Joseph via Heb-naco <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I encountered this issue for my Lexicon as well for entering dates in Wikidata (and encyclopedic entries in the Hebrew Wikipedia). My opinion is that we should put the later date and only in cases we know the two dates then to prefer the Hebrew date. Our life is complicated enough. 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(the only case for us will be if someone was born/died on December 31, 1969 or January 1, 1970 – this changes the heading in the 100 field). I have so many stories I encountered while doing my biographical research for “my authors” where the Hebrew date is totally different then the Gregorian date on tombstones, in encyclopedias (Tidhar for example), Lexicons (Kressel and others). I saw letters by people who wrote that their Zeide told them they were born on Erev Shabbes of Hanukka, of תר"ע 1910 (Erev Shabbes of Hanukka was December 1909 and not 1910) Remember – we have a backlog of Sforim we need to catalog – not too much time to spend on the issue if someone was born or died before or after sunset. 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I recently had the opportunity to get some guidance on how to code dates in the authority 046 when the date/s available is/are only using the Hebrew calendar. This was my question: “Hebrew dates span two calendar days and, as such, two Gregorian dates. Till now, the majority of catalogers have made an assumption that the Hebrew date is the latter of the two Gregorian dates and only coded that date in the 046 (indicating certainty). The question is, is such practice ok/correct? Or should catalogers be erring on the side of caution and coding the 046 date as uncertain, e.g. [2012-07-31, 2012-08-01], unless a Gregorian date is also given to confirm the date? I don’t recall seeing any guidance on this subject. Can you please advise?” This was the response from LC: “What an interesting question about EDTF, especially since it was a topic here at LC a couple of weeks ago (not about Hebrew dates, but about what catalogers are supposed to do in the 046 field in general). I would err on the side of caution and give both dates in the 046 field when the Gregorian date is not known. Come to think of it, maybe I will add something about this to the DCM Z1 046 update that I am working on as a result of that meeting we had here a couple of weeks ago. That will document it.” (highlight added) Please let me know if you have any questions. 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