Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-13 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Thomas posted: >written by Joe Smith and edited by Bob Turner > >one would have to treat that as the first statement of responsibility >according to RDA 2.4.1.5, even though there are two functions being >performed. > >But if one is confronted with > >written by Joe Smith >edited by Bob Turner >

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-13 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Don Charles said: >For example if I possess a resource with five authors, two >illustrators, and two editors ... what RDA core requires ... I've little to add to Heidrun's excellent analysis. If the five authors are writers of inclusions in a collection, they do not relate to title proper. As

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-13 Thread Greta de Groat
t is in the context of a video game. Greta de Groat Stanford University Libraries - Original Message - From: "Heidrun Wiesenmüller" To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 9:02:29 AM Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than th

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-13 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
: by John Smith [and four others]. --Ben Benjamin Abrahamse Cataloging Coordinator Acquisitions, Metadata and Enterprise Systems MIT Libraries 617-253-7137 -Original Message- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@listserv.lac-bac.gc.ca] On

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-13 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
urce Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@listserv.lac-bac.gc.ca] On Behalf Of Don Charuk Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 11:02 AM To: RDA-L@listserv.lac-bac.gc.ca Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc. We have be

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-13 Thread Robert Maxwell
-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Don Charuk Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 9:02 AM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc. We have been just debating this point recently and have reached in impasse on i

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-13 Thread Brenndorfer, Thomas
> RDA treats each "function" as a separate statement (see 2.4.1.6). Unless the statement uses grammatical links between names performing different functions. RDA 2.4.1.5 gives the example of this situation of a single statement of responsibility: prepared for the Ethical Union by Mass-Observa

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-13 Thread Joan Wang
The following is from RDA Toolkit. Core Elements Statement of responsibility Statement of responsibility relating to title proper (if more than one, only the first recorded is required) If my understanding is correct, the first statement of responsibility (include all people) has to be transcri

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-13 Thread Benjamin A Abrahamse
Systems MIT Libraries 617-253-7137 -Original Message- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@listserv.lac-bac.gc.ca] On Behalf Of Don Charuk Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 11:02 AM To: RDA-L@listserv.lac-bac.gc.ca Subject: Re: [RDA-L]

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-13 Thread Don Charuk
We have been just debating this point recently and have reached in impasse on interpreting the omission options. For example if I possess a resource with five authors, two illustrators, and two editors RDA instructs me to transcribe all information according to rules 2.4.1.4-2.4.1.6. Therefore,

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-11 Thread Goldfarb, Kathie
PM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc. Kathie said: >... other than for classification purposes, I do not believe the Main >entry really has that much significance ... Wouldn't that be Cuttering pu

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-11 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Kathie said: >... other than for classification purposes, I do not believe the Main >entry really has that much significance ... Wouldn't that be Cuttering purposes, not classification? What about 600$a$t and 700$a$t entries? Then there is the matter of coordination with scholarly citation prac

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-11 Thread Brenndorfer, Thomas
> -Original Message- > From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access > [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Goldfarb, Kathie > Sent: February-11-13 10:07 AM > To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA > Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Statement of res

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-11 Thread Goldfarb, Kathie
@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc. Does it help for collocating works under the same person? I think that this is the significance of distinguishing creators from contributors. Joan Wang Illinois Heartland Library System

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-11 Thread Joan Wang
> > -Original Message- > From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access > [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Brenndorfer, Thomas > Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 3:03 PM > To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA > Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Statemen

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-11 Thread Goldfarb, Kathie
- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Brenndorfer, Thomas Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 3:03 PM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-08 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
Mac wrote: Heidrun said: If you come upon a very long list of names, I believe it will (at least in the >area of textual works) typically be for people who have written an essay or a chapter in a collection. The example I cited, for example, was a festschrift. In which case there should be no

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-08 Thread Brenndorfer, Thomas
>I think we're all agreed that transcribing all names in a statement of >responsibility is preferable to any kinds of shortening the statement. >I'm not so sure about your argument that the first name in such a list is of >special importance as a potential part of the access point of the >work.

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-08 Thread Benjamin A Abrahamse
uary 08, 2013 12:18 PM To: RDA-L@listserv.lac-bac.gc.ca Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc. Thomas, I think we're all agreed that transcribing all names in a statement of responsibility is preferable to any kinds of shortening the statement.

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-08 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Heidrun said: >If you come upon a very long list of names, I believe it will (at >least in the >area of textual works) typically be for people who have >written an essay or a chapter in a collection. The example I cited, >for example, was a festschrift. In which case there should be no 245/$c sta

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-08 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
AC.GC.CA] *On Behalf Of *Heidrun Wiesenmüller *Sent:* February-07-13 3:11 PM *To:* RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA *Subject:* Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc. Thomas, If I understand your reasoning correctly, your main concern is with the case of t

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-08 Thread Adam L. Schiff
I think this may be the best solution so far too. ^^ Adam L. Schiff Principal Cataloger University of Washington Libraries Box 352900 Seattle, WA 98195-2900 (206) 543-8409 (206) 685-8782 fax asch...@u.washington.edu http://faculty.washington.edu/~aschiff ~~

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-08 Thread Adam L. Schiff
Heidrun, I agree - it's not clear. I'm not sure there's anything better than to transcribe the first name and then make a note about any other significant creators that you want to provide access points for. Something along the lines of: 245 / by John Smith [and 15 others] 500 Other signif

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-08 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Roslyn Smith suggested: >Madeleine Albright [and 57 others including Carla Del Ponte and >Joschka Fischer]. Great idea! But note that this would apply only to joint authors of a work. Authors of parts in a collection go after their titles in a contents note. The collection itself is entered un

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-07 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
Roslyn Smith wrote: Another possibility which occurred to me was a statement of responsibility along these lines: Madeleine Albright [and 57 others including Carla Del Ponte and Joschka Fischer]. Now this may be just the thing. I like this solution very much. In a way, it's a sort of compro

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-07 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
Adam, I think the problem with this solution is that it's not so easy to interpret: The marks of omission certainly show where names have been left out. But it's not so clear how many names there really were in the list on the source of information: What about the omitted names which are indi

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-07 Thread Roslyn Smith
and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Brenndorfer, Thomas Sent: Friday, 8 February 2013 5:48 a.m. To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc. One could choose th

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-07 Thread Brenndorfer, Thomas
Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc. Thomas, If I understand your reasoning correctly, your main concern is with the case of transcribing selected names from further down the list (which, as I've tried to explain, I would see as an exception an

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-07 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
GC.CA] *On Behalf Of *Heidrun Wiesenmüller *Sent:* February-07-13 1:39 PM *To:* RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA *Subject:* Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc. Thomas Brenndorfer wrote: AACR2 also says “not named in a statement of responsibility” but its a

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-07 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Thomas said: >One could choose the optional omission and supply the element Note on >Statement of Responsibility (RDA 2.20.3) -- "... a note providing >information on a person, family or corporate body not named in the >statement of responsibility ..." SLC has been doing that for years for such t

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-07 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Felicity Dykes said: >From CONSER standard record documentation, 07/22/2010: 245 $c: It >is not required to transcribe a statement of responsibility of any >kind in field 245 $c. For items of mixed responsibility we do not record a 245/$c, but added entries are justified in notes, e.g., for DV

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-07 Thread Adam L. Schiff
If the point is to "transcribe" then I don't see how one could accurately transcribe the first, sixth, and fifteenth names without some indication that you've omitting names in between. One could do this perhaps using ellipses: / by John Smith ... Robert Jones ... Louise Jefferson [and 13 othe

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-07 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
Shana McDanold wrote: I really like your suggested local policy: (...) Permission to suggest it for local use at my institution? Absolutely :-) Heidrun -- - Prof. Heidrun Wiesenmueller M.A. Stuttgart Media University Faculty of Information and Communication Wolframstr.

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-07 Thread Joan Wang
I think that LCC-PCC PS is an option for omitting more than three names. There should be an alternative for omitting how many names. Apparently cataloging agencies can have a choice. Once a local decision has been made, it should be consistently applied across records. I am learning from different

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-07 Thread Shana McDanold
I didn't think you specifically were advocating cherry picking. I was getting that vibe from other posts in this particular thread. And in my experience the term "relevant" is basically a disguise for "cherry picking" and does vary from institution to institution. A better/more complete policy than

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-07 Thread Brenndorfer, Thomas
-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc. Thomas Brenndorfer wrote: AACR2 also says “not named in a statement of responsibility” but its application extended to situations when all but the first named in a transcribed statement of responsibility

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-07 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
Thomas Brenndorfer wrote: AACR2 also says “not named in a statement of responsibility” but its application extended to situations when all but the first named in a transcribed statement of responsibility were omitted. Thanks for this information; I didn't know that. Nonetheless, the idea doe

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-07 Thread Brenndorfer, Thomas
/ Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Heidrun Wiesenmüller Sent: February-07-13 12:21 PM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc. Thomas Brenndorfer wrote: One could

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-07 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
Shana, It wasn't my intention to advocate arbitrary "cherry picking". I believe that the case I mentioned would (or should) appear only rarely. It probably got too much emphasis in the discussion here simply because it is a rather tricky one, but I still felt we should know how to handle it.

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-07 Thread Benjamin A Abrahamse
d Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@listserv.lac-bac.gc.ca] On Behalf Of Heidrun Wiesenmüller Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 12:33 PM To: RDA-L@listserv.lac-bac.gc.ca Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc. Benjamin A Abrahamse

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-07 Thread Shana McDanold
The idea of "cherry picking" who to include and who to exclude from the statement of responsibility really makes me uncomfortable. The idea of relevancy is very subjective depending on context, library, etc. Remember you can always pull out additional creators/access points LOCALLY as needed. If s

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-07 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
Benjamin A Abrahamse wrote: If we were expected to transcribe the statement of responsibility, not just record it, the use of the mark of omission would make perfect sense. Yet, the two Optional Omission instructions under 2.4.1.4 seem to suggest that mark of omission in S-o-Rs has been deni

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-07 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
Thomas Brenndorfer wrote: One could choose the optional omission and supply the element Note on Statement of Responsibility (RDA 2.20.3) -- "... a note providing information on a person, family or corporate body not named in the statement of responsibility ..." So the statement of responsibil

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-07 Thread Joan Wang
M > > To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA > > Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three > > persons etc. > > > > Ben Abrahamse wrote: > > > > > * Though now, looking at RDA 2.4. again, I'm not 100% sure it's s

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-07 Thread Kathy Glennan
Behalf Of Benjamin A Abrahamse Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 11:50 AM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc. If we were expected to transcribe the statement of responsibility, not just record it, the use of the mark

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-07 Thread Benjamin A Abrahamse
Behalf Of Kevin M Randall Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 11:19 AM To: RDA-L@listserv.lac-bac.gc.ca Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc. Ben Abrahamse wrote: > * Though now, looking at RDA 2.4. again, I'm not 100% sure it's saying >

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-07 Thread Brenndorfer, Thomas
> -Original Message- > From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access > [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Kevin M Randall > Sent: February-07-13 11:19 AM > To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA > Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Statement of res

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-07 Thread Kevin M Randall
Ben Abrahamse wrote: > * Though now, looking at RDA 2.4. again, I'm not 100% sure it's saying to > record. The heading for instruction 2.4.1.4 is "Recording statements of > responsibility" but the first sentence in the instruction is, "Transcribe a > statement of responsibility". In RDA, all of

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-07 Thread Benjamin A Abrahamse
ions, Metadata and Enterprise Systems MIT Libraries 617-253-7137 From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@listserv.lac-bac.gc.ca] On Behalf Of Heidrun Wiesenmüller Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 9:59 AM To: RDA-L@listserv.lac-bac.gc.ca Subject: Re: [RDA-L]

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-07 Thread Dykas, Felicity A.
:10 AM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc. Mac wrote: >> However, you can choose which entities to include in 7XX authorized >> access points in a MARC bibliographic record; those access points do >

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-07 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
Mac wrote: However, you can choose which entities to include in 7XX authorized access points in a MARC bibliographic record; those access points do not need to be justified in a transcribed element or by a note. This is my major argument with RDA. If revising, please consider restoring correla

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-07 Thread Rita Lifton
w York, NY -Original Message- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of J. McRee Elrod Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 2:30 AM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-07 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
Barbara Tillett wrote: You are right the rules do not specifically say you can do it, but it is definitely in the spirit of RDA and perhaps you'd like to work with Christine Frodl to propose an adjustment to the way RDA states this? - Barbara I'll certainly discuss this with Christine Frodl

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-06 Thread J. McRee Elrod
>However, you can choose which entities to include in 7XX authorized access >points in a MARC bibliographic record; those access points do not need to >be justified in a transcribed element or by a note. This is my major argument with RDA. If revising, please consider restoring correlation betwee

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-06 Thread JSC Secretary
Dear RDA-L people, After an email conversation with Barbara, I'm writing with some additional information, making the distinction between transcribing information in a statement of responsibility and giving authorized access points for responsible entities. [Barbara is traveling and typing long me

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-06 Thread Barbara Tillett
You are right the rules do not specifically say you can do it, but it is definitely in the spirit of RDA and perhaps you'd like to work with Christine Frodl to propose an adjustment to the way RDA states this? - Barbara Barbara B. Tillett On Feb 6, 2013, at 11:36 AM, Heidrun Wiesenmüller wrot

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-06 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Heidrun said: >But I'm not happy that the only alternatives are either "all names" >(standard rule) or "only the first name" (option). Why shouldn't it be >equally possible to transcribe, say, the first three, five or ten names >and then put "[and x others]"? This might be a more satisfactory w

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-06 Thread Benjamin A Abrahamse
c-bac.gc.ca] on behalf of Heidrun Wiesenmüller [wiesenmuel...@hdm-stuttgart.de] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 4:36 PM To: RDA-L@listserv.lac-bac.gc.ca Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc. Barbara, I can??? Now this is a pleasant surprise. Only I

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-06 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
Barbara, I can??? Now this is a pleasant surprise. Only I'm not sure where it says so in the rules. The optional omission in 2.4.1.5 explicitly states "omit all but the first of each group." I've noted that the optional omission in 2.4.1.4 says "Always record the first name appearing in a st

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-06 Thread Joseph, Angelina
.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc. After all this talk about German cataloging, I suppose it's time to get back to RDA ;-) The other day we discussed the optional omission for statements of responsibility naming more than three persons,

Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-06 Thread JSC Chair
You can do exactly what you suggested with RDA. - Barbara Tillett On Wednesday, February 6, 2013, Heidrun Wiesenmüller wrote: > After all this talk about German cataloging, I suppose it's time to get > back to RDA ;-) > > The other day we discussed the optional omission for statements of > respo

[RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc.

2013-02-06 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
After all this talk about German cataloging, I suppose it's time to get back to RDA ;-) The other day we discussed the optional omission for statements of responsibility naming more than three persons, etc. (RDA 2.4.1.5). The general feeling was that although everybody ought to try and follow