[RDA-L] Christianity-centric terminology in RDA

All: I catalog as a volunteer at the Sosnick Library, Temple B'nai Israel in Sacramento, CA. I confess to some puzzlement as to why RDA has not apparently chosen to update dates to non-Christian-centric terminology, e.g. BC/AD -- BCE/CE. These terms have been in common usage now for many years

Re: [RDA-L] Christianity-centric terminology in RDA

Buzz Haughton said: I confess to some puzzlement as to why RDA has not apparently chosen to update dates to non-Christian-centric terminology, e.g. BC/AD -- BCE/CE ... This was one of several good ideas in early RDA drafts which got lost. Another was removing alternate title from title

Re: [RDA-L] Christianity-centric terminology in RDA

Wouldn't the RDA version of the non-Christian-centric terminology have to be spelled out as Christian Era or Before the Christian Era ?I fail to see how these are any less Christian-centric, since they explicitly mention it. Dave Giglio Head of Technical Services Dover Public Library

Re: [RDA-L] Christianity-centric terminology in RDA

The JSC decided to defer this issue at its April 2008 meeting. (http://www.rda-jsc.org/docs/5m216-265.pdf p. 52) I believe they felt that CE/BCE were not in widespread-enough use to justify a change. -- John Hostage Authorities and Database Integrity