Elhanan,
The German-speaking community is still preparing for the implementation
of RDA, and many decisions have yet to be made. So I cannot tell you for
certain how we're going to do it.
But we have a strong tradition of recording information about e.g.
carrier in coded form. For display, they can be shown in various ways
(mostly, in our catalogs they are displayed as icons).
Therefore, my expectation is that we will go on using codes, at least
internally. For international data exchange, these codes could then be
transformed into English language terms (or terms in another language,
if desired).
I believe codes are especially useful in a multilingual environment. You
can decide how they're going to be displayed. It's easy to implement
displays in several languages and let the users choose between them.
In its response to DNB/2,
http://www.rda-jsc.org/docs/6JSC-DNB-2-LC-response.pdf
LC proposed expanding RDA 0.12 (Encoding RDA Data) like this: "When RDA
instructions specify recording a name or a term in an element, the data
may be recorded using a substitute encoding scheme (e.g., a country code
from ISO 3166 for a place name), provided the encoding scheme is
identified."
I like this idea very much.
Heidrun
On 06.10.2013 07:58, Elhanan Adler wrote:
Dear colleagues
What do people in non-English speaking countries do about the
terminology of these fields (MARC 336-338)? Do you translate them (all
terms?) to the local language of cataloging? Or do you leave them in
English since they are 'behind the scenes' data which you do not
display directly?
Here in Israel we use four distinct languages of cataloging (English,
Hebrew, Arabic, Russian) according to the script of the item being
cataloged (We use vernacular script in the regular MARC fields) and it
would be technically simplest to just use English in 336-338 for all.
What are other countries with multiple languages of cataloging doing?
Elhanan
Elhanan Adler
Email: elhan...@savion.huji.ac.il
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