Mac said: >It seems to me "preferred title" is the RDA core element which is most >like "uniform title" in AACR2. Except that it applies only to >distinctive uniform titles. What about classical music form uniform >titles (the only 240s our clients like), and voluminous author form >uniform titles such as "Works" which fewer like? Presumably >"preferred title" takes care of "Romeo and Juliet" but not "Works", >"Plays", "Poems", etc.
In music, the “preferred title” corresponds to the “initial title element” in AACR2, i.e. the basic title without additions. These additions (e.g. medium of performance, number, key) are treated as distinct elements in RDA. Compilations, as aggregate works, also have preferred titles in RDA. “Works” or “Plays” are examples of such titles. >I can only hope "preferred title" will be in an authority record, not >in individual bibliographic records, in most cases; particularly when >identical to the title proper. The December 2008 draft of RDA includes the following text under instruction 6.0: Preferred access points [changed to “authorized access points” at the last JSC meeting] representing works and expressions can be used for different purposes. They provide the means for: ... b) identifying a work when the title by which it is known differs from the title proper of the resource being described Given that, in an implementation of RDA in current database structures, the preferred title for the work would appear in bibliographic records only as part of an access point (130, 1XX/240 or 7XX), I take this as an indication that in such an implementation, a 130 or 240 field would not be included in bibliographic records if it were identical to the 245. In a relational or object-oriented database structure with separate records for each of the Group 1 entities, I don’t see how work records could exist without a “Preferred title of the work.” Daniel Paradis Service de catalogage Pavillon Roger-Gaudry, local L-981 Universite de Montreal C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville Montreal QC H3C 3J7 Telephone: 514 343-6111, ext. 4019 Fax: 514 343-6402 Email: daniel.para...@umontreal.ca http://www.bib.umontreal.ca
