For what it's worth, I doubt OL will ever institute any policies on OL cataloging practice. It's intended to be wiki-like, not proscriptive. If there are standards out there in library-world that you deem useful, then go ahead.
(Karen may disagree!) Cheers, george On 2/14/11 11:07 AM, Sarah Breau wrote: > Am I the only one who doesn't see the problem with merging all the works by > one > person into one author record? Why is it bad that all the individual Samuel > Clemens and Mark Twain records are merged into one? I haven't worked on those > records, but I think that if I had I probably would have done some merging, so > please let me know where the error lies. ;-) > > Anyway, I am also interested in the discussion of pseudonyms. My reasoning is > to > use the author's real name in the author field, and then put the pseudonym in > the by statement field. That way, when you are looking at an author's page, > all > the works appear there. It's also a good way to discover that an author wrote > other works you might be interested in, but didn't know it was by the same > person. It also provides a way to log who wrote which work in the case of > shared > pseudonyms. There are cons to this approach, though, as in most of the > Stratemeyer Syndicate pseudonyms, where records of who wrote which work > weren't > always kept. :-/ > > That being said, I once went through and cleaned up some of the multitude of > Dr. > Seuss author records, and in the process I changed them to direct to the > Theodore Geisel record. Later, someone went back and changed the author name > to > Dr. Seuss, with the comment that everyone calls him Dr. Seuss, not Theodore > Geisel. Not true, since he also published under his own name, and now all > those > works ERRONEOUSLY show the author name as "Dr. Seuss" as well. But I'm not > going > to get into a Wikipedia-style edit war over it. > > Sarah > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
