There are no dumb questions, especially when it comes to RDA
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Arthur Liu <art....@gmail.com> wrote:
> I apologize if this is a dumb question, but is there a concrete definition
> for what a publisher is or does, or what constitutes the act of
> "publishing" or "publication"?
>
> The RDA Glossary states that a publisher is "A person, family, or
> corporate body responsible for publishing, releasing, or issuing a
> resource."
>
> What is the difference between publishing, releasing, and issuing?
>
> Also, RDA 2.8.1.1 (Publication Statements) states that all online
> resources are to be considered "published." To me, that implies that the
> act of hosting a file or set of files on the Internet is one type of
> publishing. For online resources then, is the server, domain owner, web
> administrator, etc. to be considered?
>
> One of the Oxford English Dictionary's definitions for "publisher" (I'm
> looking at 2b) is "A person or company whose business is the preparation
> and issuing of printed or documentary material for distribution or sale,
> acting as the agent of an author or owner; a person or company that
> arranges the printing or manufacture of such items and their distribution
> to booksellers or the public."
>
> This makes sense to me in the context of "normal" monographs put out by
> commercial publishers, but many government publications don't seem to use
> this terminology. I'm thinking of documents which have a "technical report
> documentation page" -- not sure that's what Cathy Crum was referring to.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Arthur
>
>
> Arthur Liu
> Library Technician
> John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 5:16 PM, J. McRee Elrod <m...@slc.bc.ca> wrote:
>
>> Deborah, with whom until recently I always agreed, said:
>>
>> >If you decide a statement is a responsibility statement (often based on
>> >layout) then remember that we do not 'guess' a publisher; we didn't under
>> >AACR, and we still don't, under RDA. So you would enter the corporate
>> body
>> >as statement of responsibility, and you would have to enter [publisher
>> not
>> >identified].
>>
>> Please, please, please don't do this. With the item in hand or on
>> screen, we are better able to determine data than the patron at the
>> catalogue. SLC has been guessing publisher for decades. Better to
>> pretend you are not guessing and just enter it, than to enter this
>> uninformative imprint.
>>
>> Rules are meant to help inform patrons, not deny them information.
>>
>>
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>
>
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