The designator codes are not mandatory across the board, but certain values are considered core values under certain institutional policies for certain resources. So for example, “$e illustrator” is a Contributor relationship designator value that is a core element (i.e., mandatory) for the Library of Congress for children’s resources.
Thomas Brenndorfer Guelph 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: October 16, 2012 4:39 PM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Question about relationship terms for contributors But is the subfield e relationship designator mandatory or optional, for the 1xx field, for the 7xx field? Jack Jack Wu Franciscan University of Steubenville >>> "Brenndorfer, Thomas" >>> <tbrenndor...@library.guelph.on.ca<mailto:tbrenndor...@library.guelph.on.ca>> >>> 10/16/2012 4:27 PM >>> Here’s a simple chart: MARC has two main fields for making an access point for a Person: 100 700 Specific relationship designators can be added in subfield $e. But in RDA, there are two layers. There is a top level relationship element connected to a work, expression, manifestation, or item, and there are relationship designators that fall into groups under the top level relationship element. For example, “author” is a relationship designator that falls under the work-related “Creator” relationship element. Here’s the list of top-level relationship elements: WORK relationship elements: Creator Other Person, Family or Corporate Body Associated with a Work EXPRESSION relationship elements: Contributor MANIFESTATION relationship elements: Producer of an Unpublished Resource Publisher Distributor Manufacturer Other Person, Family or Corporate Body Associated with a Manifestation ITEM relationship elements: Owner Custodian Other Person, Family or Corporate Body Associated with an Item Under each relationship element there are a set of allowable and often hierarchical relationship designators, which are found in RDA Appendix I. Example for Owner (an item-level relationship element) and its subordinate relationship designators: Owner - current owner --- depositor - former owner --- donor --- seller Some top-level relationship elements, such as “Producer of an Unpublished Resource” have no subordinate relationship designators. Thomas Brenndorfer Guelph 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: October 16, 2012 3:54 PM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA<mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA> Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Question about relationship terms for contributors Some rather basic questions I'm still ignorant of. Is it allowable to have some access points with the relationship designator and some without any relationship designator? And are the terms of creator and author mutually exclusive. Thanks, Jack Jack Wu Franciscan University of Steubenville >>> Benjamin A Abrahamse <babra...@mit.edu<mailto:babra...@mit.edu>> 10/16/2012 >>> 1:11 PM >>> If we are cataloging a work, with a preface by someone other than the main author, RDA 20.2.1 says this is a relationship between a person and an expression. The examples in RDA 20 list this as "Writer of Added Commentary, Etc." In Appendix I.3, "Relationship Designators for Persons, Families, and Corporate Bodies Associated with an Expression" I see the following relationship designators: writer of added commentary A person, family, or corporate body contributing to an expression of a work by providing an interpretation or critical explanation of the original work. writer of added text A person, family, or corporate body contributing to an expression of a primarily non-textual work by providing text for the non-textual work (e.g., writing captions for photographs, descriptions of maps). If I wanted to give an access point for this person, and use a relationship designator, would I have to use "writer of added commentary" (which is the closest fit, I think, though not quite the same) or could I use "writer of preface", which is not on the list? Benjamin Abrahamse Cataloging Coordinator Acquisitions, Metadata and Enterprise Systems MIT Libraries 617-253-7137 ________________________________ Scanned for virus and spam by McAfee E500 Appliance ________________________________ Scanned by for virus, malware and spam by SCM appliance
