Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Dear Michael, Mac and RDA_L'
A bit of history may be of some slight interest. Searching the on LC
catalog one finds:
1. Control number: 16-025649, has main entry: 100 Fugger family (for an
inventory of the part of the archive medieval merchant family)
2. Control num
J. McRee Elrod wrote, forwarding a note by M. Gorman:
COLLECTIVE ENTITIES
... I propose a
generalization of the whole category under the name COLLECTIVE
ENTITIES in whatever code of rules arises from the rubble of the RDA
Collective entity: a group of persons identified by a collective
proper
B. Eversberg said:
>We should also be eager to learn why Mr. Gorman is talking of
>"the rubble of the RDA". Is there any reference where he elaborates
>on this?
Michael Gorman has written what I consider to be the definitive
critique of RDA, but it is not yet published. If he grants
persmission
At 03:53 AM 8/22/2006, Bernhard Eversberg wrote:
Collective entity: a group of persons identified by a collective
proper name...
A splendid idea. But are there suggestions as to how to call these
in an OPAC setting?
In the OPAC, how about simply "names"?
(If I recall correctly, we've ne
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:17:11 -0700
From: Michael Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Collective entities
Dear Mac
Greetings from Seoul!
Could you post the appended (or the attached) ...
Thanks, Michael
COLLECTIVE ENTITIES
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