[RDA-L] 2.2.3.1 Preferred sources of information in different languages or scripts

2013-07-22 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
I may (as usual) simply worry too much about the rules, but I'm wondering about bilinguial dictionaries with separate facing title pages in two languages. Which of these two title pages should be used as the preferred source of information? 2.2.3.1 a) to d) aren't applicable, so we're left

Re: [RDA-L] 2.2.3.1 Preferred sources of information in different languages or scripts

2013-07-22 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Heidrun said: I'm wondering about bilinguial dictionaries with separate facing title pages in two languages. Which of these two title pages should be used as the preferred source of information? Bolh. We would treat this the same way we treat any title page which extends over two pages. pften

Re: [RDA-L] 2.2.3.1 Preferred sources of information in different languages or scripts

2013-07-22 Thread Kevin M Randall
Heidrun Wiesenmueller wrote: I may (as usual) simply worry too much about the rules, but I'm wondering about bilinguial dictionaries with separate facing title pages in two languages. Which of these two title pages should be used as the preferred source of information? 2.2.3.1 a) to d)

Re: [RDA-L] 2.2.3.1 Preferred sources of information in different languages or scripts

2013-07-22 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
Mac said: We would treat this the same way we treat any title page which extends over two pages. often happens with chilren's books. Right, I see that this can be done, although it's perhaps a bit of a stretch in the light of the existence of 2.2.3.1. But if you treat the two facing title

Re: [RDA-L] 2.2.3.1 Preferred sources of information in different languages or scripts

2013-07-22 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
Kevin M Randall wrote: If the resource is one in which pages are read left to right, then I would probably take the one on the left-hand side as the preferred source. But seeing as the sequence of the two pages is probably arbitrary, I would not object to someone just deciding that none of

Re: [RDA-L] 2.2.3.1 Preferred sources of information in different languages or scripts

2013-07-22 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Heidrun said: But if you treat the two facing title pages as only one source of information, then you still must decide which one comes first in the description ... As Kevin said, in a language read from left to right, (contrary to German practice) I would begin with the left hand data. In