Joan said:
My understanding is the recording of title should be loyal to the
title (author's decision) found in the manifestation. The abridgement
of a statement of responsibility (cataloger's decision) should be
loyal to the cataloging language.
Yes, perhaps that's the reasoning behind it.
I'd still argue that both cases are fairly similar: We are talking about
an element which is normally transcribed as it appears in the resource.
But in both cases, a part of the element is not transcribed as it is for
some reason, but rendered in a slightly different way, as a verbal
description (of a symbol in one case, and of a list of names in the other).
Heidrun
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Prof. Heidrun Wiesenmueller M.A.
Stuttgart Media University
Faculty of Information and CommuniCation
Wolframstr. 32, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany
www.hdm-stuttgart.de/bi
