And what about "writer of afterword", while we're at it?
I've just have such a case in front of me: A novel, where the translator
has also provided notes and the said afterword. It gives information
about the author and her work. What is here presented as an afterword
might, in other cases, just as well be presented as an introduction.
Sometimes I think RDA makes too many distinctions. It would be far more
sensible to have only one relationship designator covering writers of
things like prefaces, introductions, forewords and afterwords. Then we
wouldn't have to wreck our brains about the differences. "Writer of
added text" would do the trick, if it wasn't restricted to primarily
non-textual work.
Heidrun
On 05.08.2013 11:29, Duncan Chalmers wrote:
I see that the relationship designators “writer of introduction” and
“writer of preface” have been fast tracked into RDA Appendix I.
However, nowhere in RDA can I see an explanation of what an
“introduction” is and what a “preface” is. It may be that the
unwritten assumption is that a preface is by the author of a book and
an introduction by a second party, but I’m speculating. As publishers
use “foreword”, “introductory”, “preface” etc. according to ad hoc
considerations of marketing, taking the path of least resistance here
and following title page usage would result in the same relationship
having two different designators, and two different relationships (if
indeed the relationships “writer of introduction” and “writer of
preface” can be said to be different) potentially being expressed
with the same designator. I’d be grateful if anyone could elucidate
this, and apologies if it’s already been covered on the list.
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