> -----Original Message----- > From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access > [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Kevin M Randall > Sent: February-07-13 11:19 AM > To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA > Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three > persons etc. > > Ben Abrahamse wrote: > > > * Though now, looking at RDA 2.4. again, I'm not 100% sure it's saying > > to record. The heading for instruction 2.4.1.4 is "Recording > > statements of responsibility" but the first sentence in the > > instruction is, "Transcribe a statement of responsibility". > > In RDA, all of the data is "recorded". It's just that for some of the > elements, > the method of recording is specifically transcription. > > I wonder if it would be too weird to use the mark of omission, and have > something like: > > Madeleine Albright, Franz-Lothar Altmann, ... Carl Bildt [and 52 > others] > > or: > > Madeleine Albright, Franz-Lothar Altmann, ... Carl Bildt [and 55 > others] > > I'm not really sure about this! The first one totally ignores the number of > names represented by the mark of omission. The second one adds up all the > names omitted before and after Carl Bildt. Either way, I'm not sure I like > the > look of it. > > Kevin M. Randall
One could choose the optional omission and supply the element Note on Statement of Responsibility (RDA 2.20.3) -- "... a note providing information on a person, family or corporate body not named in the statement of responsibility ..." So the statement of responsibility could have the first named only, and the note could list additional names-- whichever names are important for "identification or access" (RDA 2.20.3.5). No change to existing Example: Statement of responsibility relating to title proper: Madeleine Albright [and 57 others] Note on statement of responsibility: Additional creators: Franz-Lothar Altmann and Carl Bildt This also dovetails in with RDA 18.6, which instructs to add explanatory notes for relationships of creators, contributors, etc. to the resource. One other observation: the role of the relationship designator is connected to the relationship between specific entities like Creator <> Work. Many "explanatory" or "justification" statements or notes are embedded in the Manifestation level. While those statements and notes do serve some user tasks (such as "identify"), the idea now is that bibliographic data about relationships could exist in different contexts, which means greater weight would be given to relationship designators for carrying the burden of explaining the relationship. Thomas Brenndorfer Guelph Public Library
