Here are the RDA definitions of "editor" and "editor of compilation" (I.3.1):
+++++++++++++++ editor A person, family, or corporate body contributing to an expression of a work by revising or elucidating the content, e.g., adding an introduction, notes, or other critical matter. An editor may also prepare an expression of a work for production, publication, or distribution. For major revisions, adaptations, etc., that substantially change the nature and content of the original work, resulting in a new work, see author, I.2.1. editor of compilation A person, family, or corporate body contributing to an expression of a collective or aggregate work by selecting and putting together works, or parts of works, by one or more creators. The editor of compilation may also be involved in elucidating the content, e.g., adding an introduction, notes, or other critical matter, of the compilation. For compilations of data, information, etc., that result in new works, see compiler, I.2.1. +++++++++++++++ The "editor" "revises or elucidates the content, e.g. by adding an introduction, notes, or other critical matter." The "editor of compilation" MAY do these things, but he is still the editor of the compilation if all he does "select and put together works, or parts of works, by one or more creators." The "compiler" (I.2.1) puts together things that are not "works or parts of works." He/she is "responsible for creating a new work (e.g., a bibliography, a directory) through the act of compilation, e.g., selecting, arranging, aggregating, and editing data, information, etc." The data may be bibliographical references, names and addresses, words or terms in a dictionary or glossary, etc. Joan Biella Library of Congress usual disclaimers apply +++++++++++++++ Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 15:41:19 -0800 From: "J. McRee Elrod" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Cringeworthy RDA terminology >No, because a compiler is a creator, i.e. a 100 field entry, and can >appear in a citation. The person who puts together a bibliography is >a compiler. The person who puts together a conference proceedings is >an editor of a compilation. No, because "editor" implies changing or adding text (cf. the AACR2 definition). It is more than just collecting. If the compiler of conference proceedings simply puts the papers together, he is not an editor, only a compiler. What's wrong with having some compilers in 100, and some in 700, depending on the material compiled? The compiler of a bibliography is 100; the compiler of an essay or poetry collection is a 700. Unless the poems or essays were changed in some way, s/he is not an editor. RDA is doing too far in changing the established meanings of words. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editing
