Two new members have been appointed by their constituencies to the JSC: Gordon
Dunsire and Bill Leonard. Gordon represents CILIP (Chartered Institute of
Library and Information Professionals); the CILIP position in the JSC had
been vacant this past year. Bill represents the Canadian Committee on
It seems to me we need to be flexible about expressions in our data models.
Some cases warrant a "record" (or data) that identifies a specific expression;
but others (like, for example the expression that results from a translation of
another expression into a different language) it may be suffi
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The current NAF does include records for expressions, and those include
much, much more than literary works. Two of the most obvious are sacred
religious texts and musical works (including operas and ballets).
Scientific texts also have different expressions: the Latin and
vernacular expressio
I'm not actually sure that the need to distinguish between expressions
is that important -- outside of particular minority cases involving
voluminous works with many editions that are the subject of study by
literary scholars. I'm not saying it's useless, but I'm dubious that
it's as important
The title statement has never been that optimal for collocating works,
because even when it's not been left to cataloger judgement but has been
recorded according to very specific rules -- they were rules based on
how the title was printed on the item-in-hand (manifestation), which
isn't necces
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