I agree with Heidrun that you could apply 1.7.7 Letters or Words Intended to Be Read More Than Once
If a letter or word appears only once but the design of the source of information makes it clear that it is intended to be read more than once, repeat the letter or word. Notice that this instruction is in 1.7, which is the general guidelines on transcription, so it applies to the Statement of Responsibility. So: / mit Beiträgen von ; hg. von = with contributions by ... ; ed. by (assuming that the abbreviations are on the resource) The order of the statements (keeping the terms in the same language together) is from ISBD2007 p. 91 Deborah - - - - - - - - Deborah Fritz TMQ, Inc. <mailto:debo...@marcofquality.com> debo...@marcofquality.com <http://www.marcofquality.com> www.marcofquality.com From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Heidrun Wiesenmüller Sent: Monday, April 01, 2013 2:12 PM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] 2.4.3.3 Parallel statements of responsibility Ben, I think the "/" should indeed be replaced by a "=" according to 1.7.3, as it obviously is a case of parallel statements of responsibility (i.e. two different RDA elements). But I'd find it odd to have only "Mit Beiträgen von" as one of these statements of responsibility. As this is only an introductory phrase, it somehow seems to miss the point. I wonder if we could solve this problem by making use of RDA 1.7.7 "Letters or Words Intended to Be Read More Than Once": "If a letter or word appears only once but the design of the source of information makes it clear that it is intended to be read more than once, repeat the letter or word." Perhaps we could argue that on these title pages, the names are intended to be read twice, once with the German introductory phrase, and a second time with the English introductory phrase. Then you'd have: mit Beiträgen von X, Y, Z = with contributions by X, Y, Z ; hg. von A = ed. by A Does that make sense? Heidrun On 01.04.2013 19:36, Benjamin A Abrahamse wrote: When a resource has parallel statements of responsibility on its chief source of information, but only the "connecting words" are parallel, not the names themselves, how does one treat this under RDA? E.g., what I see on the t.p.: Mit Beiträgen von/With contributions by ... hg. von/ed. by ... Is simply transcribing what I see enough, or should the "/" be replaced with " = "? Mit Beiträgen von = With contributions by ... ; hg. von = ed. by .... Thanks, Ben Benjamin Abrahamse Cataloging Coordinator Acquisitions, Metadata and Enterprise Systems MIT Libraries 617-253-7137 -- --------------------- Prof. Heidrun Wiesenmueller M.A. Stuttgart Media University Faculty of Information and Communication Wolframstr. 32, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany www.hdm-stuttgart.de/bi
