I am grateful for the feedback offered on the discussion paper
(http://www.rda-jsc.org/docs/6JSC-ALA-Discussion-1.pdf) and am glad to hear
that some of you think that implementing an Extent of Expression element (to
disambiguate content and carrier) would be a step in the right direction.
I
If a resource consists wholly or predominantly of image content, then this
content is no longer illustrative. That is, the images *are the primary
content* in such a resource, so they no longer fulfill RDA's definition of
illustrative content: Content designed to illustrate the primary content
Heidrun,
I think you raise excellent questions. Your message highlights areas of RDA
that are (to my mind at least) a bit muddy.
I believe RDA could be altered to make a clearer distinction between extent of
carrier and extent of content. The proposal for an Extent of Expression element
is
This topic is the subject of proposal to be put forth to JSC later this year.
See 6JSC/LC/24 (particularly in the neighborhood of change #10):
http://www.rda-jsc.org/docs/6JSC-LC-24.pdf
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Yale Center for British Art, Department
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Why not:
RDA 6.3 Form of Work: board book
Francis
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Many thanks John for your full and helpful reply. I'd like to respond to a
number of points you make (most of which I agree with), but let's focus on this:
One could not ask of the encoding in either of these examples to identify
most of these RDA elements, with the exception of Edition
I have what is probably a naïve question, touching on RDA and BIBFRAME. I'll
preface the question with an example. Imagine a resource with the following
title page:
An heroic epistle to an unfortunate monarch, by Peregrine the Elder.
Enriched with explanatory notes.
The second edition.
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Matthew
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I have
DCRM(B) acknowledges that hand-coloring is not always an item-specific
characteristic. See DCRM(B) 5C3.2:
5C3.2.
Do not describe hand-colored illustrations as col. unless there is evidence
that the publication was issued with the hand coloring. In case of doubt,
consider any machine-press
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