Thanks Bob for answering this while the UK slept!
The considerations in choosing between an acronymic and a formally
spelled-out form of conference (or other corporate name) are broadly
similar in RDA as in AACR2. RDA 11.2.2.5 says:
"If variant forms of the name are found in resources associated with
the body, choose the name as it appears in the preferred sources of
information (see 2.2.2) as the preferred name, as opposed to forms found
elsewhere in the resources."
So if the preferred source (usually the title page) has "WWIC 2012", and
the spelled out form appears elsewhere, then the acronymic form is the
preferred name. That's not different from AACR2.
Where RDA practice differs is in the following:
RDA 11.2.2.11 says:
"Omit from the name of a conference, congress, meeting, exhibition,
fair, festival, etc. [...] indications of its number, or year or years
of convocation, etc."
AACR2 24.7A1 said the same (except that it also required the omission of
frequency), but LCRI 24.7A allowed an exception for acronyms:
"If the name of a conference consists of a phrase that combines an
acronym or an initialism with the abbreviated or full form of the year,
retain the year as part of the name."
So under AACR2 we could have "WWIC 2012" as the name.
There is no equivalent of LCRI 24.7A in RDA or the LCPS. We can't retain
the year of convocation.
Therefore, from "WWIC 2012" we omit the year, and are left with "WWIC".
As Bob says below, RDA 11.13.1.2 and the LCPS for 11.7.1.4 instruct us
to qualify it with an "Other designation", and the most suitable
designation would seem to be "Conference". We've used "Conference" in
these access points, regardless of whether a meeting calls itself a
Conference, Colloquium, Symposium, etc., in the interests of consistency
and collocation. Bearing in mind also that LCRI 21.1.B1 no longer
applies, so a phrase no longer has to contain a word that connotes a
meeting, in order to be considered named.
Regards
Richard
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Bob,
Thanks! I hope we will have some examples of such headings since this is
a pretty major change from AACR2/NACO practice.
Mary Charles
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RDA 11.7 says the "Other Designation Associated with the Corporate Body"
element is core "for a body with a name that does not convey the idea of
a corporate body." This element, in turn, becomes part of the authorized
access point (as a qualifier) under 11.13.1.2.
The LCPS to 11.7.1.4 says that, for LC at least, "If the name chosen for
the authorized access point for a corporate body is an initialism or
acronym written in all capital letters (with or without periods between
them), add a qualifier to the name." In other words, for LC, a body with
a preferred name that consists of an initialism or acronym written in
all capital letters is a body with a name that does not convey the idea
of a corporate body.
Bob
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Sent: Monday, July 23, 2012 9:16 AM
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Subject: Re: [RDA-L] RDA Conference headings created by BL
Richard,
I am seeing lots of BL created RDA conference headings show up for
individual conferences, many using initials. The biggest difference I
see is the word (Conference) added to the initials.
Example:
111: 2|aWWIC (Conference)|n(10th :|d2012 :|cThera Island, Greece)
I like it since it seems to be more in-line with serial type cataloging
treatment than the AACR2 heading: WWIC 2012|d(2012 :|cThera Island,
Greece)
Can you (or anyone else) point me to documentation about this? I don't
remember seeing anything that would have caused me to create the
preferred heading this way.
Mary Charles Lasater
Vanderbilt
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