Re: [RDA-L] Habilitation theses

2013-12-03 Thread M. E.
Heidrun Wiesenmüller wiesenmuel...@hdm-stuttgart.de wrote: The other day, we were wondering how habilitation theses should be treated under RDA. These are quite common in Germany. In case you're not familiar with this European concept: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habilitation I don't have

Re: [RDA-L] Relationship designator for corporate creator

2013-12-03 Thread M. E.
Finnerty, Ryan rfinne...@ucsd.edu wrote: What if you have an entity that has multiple roles, one at the creator level and the other at another level (e.g. author and publisher)? Would it be acceptable to use relationship designator for both roles in a 1XX, like this: 110 2_ Geological

Re: [RDA-L] RDA imprint revision

2013-11-27 Thread M. E.
J. McRee Elrod m...@slc.bc.ca wrote: Why would one wish to do that? Nobody has suggested 264 1 $bGod for a rock. All we need is 264 2 for the seller of the rock. Like manuscripts, equipment and naturally occurring objects are not published, and should have the appropriate 264 indicator for

Re: [RDA-L] RDA imprint revision

2013-11-27 Thread M. E.
M. E. m.k.e.m...@gmail.com wrote: Don't confuse RDA's production statement, which refers to man-made stuff, with what might be similar statements in another universe for naturally occurring objects. Thinking this over, I should qualify that the production statement would also apply

Re: [RDA-L] relationship designator

2013-10-29 Thread M. E.
Benjamin A Abrahamse babra...@mit.edu wrote: I feel like I'm beating a dead horse, but just to sound off my agreement with Mac's statement, No finite list can reflect the infinite relationship possibilities and wondering yet again why there aren't more generic RDA relators like contributor.

Re: [RDA-L] Appropriate Relationship Designator

2013-10-29 Thread M. E.
Lynne LaBare, Senior Librarian/Cataloger lyn...@provolibrary.com wrote: Is it correct to state that I can use contributor (20.2.1.3) or creator (I.2.1) when a *specific* MRI for an entity does not exist that reflects the entity's relationship to the bibliographical content of the work? If

Re: [RDA-L] RDA name authorities |c (Fictitious character)

2013-10-11 Thread M. E.
Jack Wu j...@franciscan.edu wrote: I've always learned that a fictitious character is just that, a figment of our imagination. It is not capable of authorship (or as creator) unless it's a pseudonym of some real person. I can understand Holmes, Sherlock getting an access point, but cannot

Re: [RDA-L] French-language book, cataloged using English, with summary in French

2013-10-10 Thread M. E.
Ian Fairclough ifairclough43...@yahoo.com wrote: In hand: a book in French, cataloged using the English language. Except for the summary, which is in French, and was likely lifted from another source. I see nothing under 7.10 Summarization of the Content to comment on the advisability of

Re: [RDA-L] Punctuation question--quoted notes

2013-10-09 Thread M. E.
Benjamin A Abrahamse babra...@mit.edu wrote: When a note is quoting the source of information (see 1.10.3) and so ends with a quotation mark, does the full stop fall inside or outside of the quotation mark? I am having trouble finding an instruction that addresses this. Most folks have

Re: [RDA-L] Thanks RE: [RDA-L] RDA name authorities |c (Fictitious character)

2013-10-08 Thread M. E.
Bernhard, S. Michael mbernh...@cabq.gov wrote: It seems to me, too, that the heading for Holmes should be Holmes, Sherlock |c (Fictitious character). Do others agree? If I were still at a NACO library, I might go ahead and correct both headings (unless I've missed something somewhere with

Re: [RDA-L] Thanks RE: [RDA-L] RDA name authorities |c (Fictitious character)

2013-10-08 Thread M. E.
Robert Maxwell robert_maxw...@byu.edu wrote: No one should be “correcting” authorized access points that were correctly established under current policy, which is to include the qualifier if there is a conflict but otherwise not. But the material of 9.6.1.7 falls under the 9.19.1.2 group of

Re: [RDA-L] Thanks RE: [RDA-L] RDA name authorities |c (Fictitious character)

2013-10-08 Thread M. E.
Robert Maxwell robert_maxw...@byu.edu wrote: In a message to the PCC list dated September 4, 2013, Kate James of the LC Policy and Standards Division addressed this issue (with reference to the record for “Holmes, Sherlock”): Thanks for the reminder, Bob. Looking through my inbox, I held

Re: [RDA-L] Questions for videodisc reproduction of videocassette

2013-10-01 Thread M. E.
J. McRee Elrod m...@slc.bc.ca wrote: Even Bibframe does not have WEMI True, but that's BIBFRAME, not RDAFRAME or FRBRFRAME. BIBFRAME, as I've come to understand it, is trying to be all things to all people. Supposedly something called application profiles will serve as templates that lay

Re: [RDA-L] Questions for videodisc reproduction of videocassette

2013-09-27 Thread M. E.
Deborah Fritz debo...@marcofquality.com wrote: However, there doesn't seem to be a relationship designator for 'producer'; or rather, there is one, but it is assigned to: producer: A person, family, or corporate body responsible for most of the business aspects of a production for screen,

Re: [RDA-L] RDA local printouts

2013-09-27 Thread M. E.
Tarango, Adolfo atara...@ucsd.edu wrote: Weighing in with trepidation to comment on the part of 2.8.1.3 addressing the appearance of publication data. Note, that 2.8.1.3 states a condition must be met, that when *bo**th* publication data of the reproducer and the original are found on the

Re: [RDA-L] Role of relators and labels in display

2013-09-27 Thread M. E.
If the OPAC supplies Publisher as the label for 264 1, then certainly the printer of a one off copy of the electronic resource should *not* be coded 264 1. Publisher name and date are important clues to the authority and currency of a resource. True enough. Who printed it when is not

Re: [RDA-L] All illustrations

2013-09-19 Thread M. E.
J. McRee Elrod m...@slc.bc.ca wrote: Thomas proposed: Extent: 1 comic book (ix, 45 pages) Dimensions: 24 cm Colour Content: color Perhaps it is because I grew up with cards, but I would find far clearer the following without a label: 1 comic book (ix, 45 pages) : colour, 24 cm or

Re: [RDA-L] Duets

2013-09-18 Thread M. E.
Maliheh Dorkhosh m.dorkh...@gmail.com wrote: For a musical work, Duets is as a preferred title? Or Duets is used after a Preferred title? If the work has only a generic title like Duos or Duets, then Duets is the preferred title (see RDA 6.14.2.6 and 6.14.2.4). Here's one example:

Re: [RDA-L] Dagger symbol

2013-09-12 Thread M. E.
Dana Van Meter vanme...@ias.edu wrote: I have a question about the dagger symbol signifying death and RDA. From the examples under the LC-PCC PS for 1.4 i.e., 1.7.5], it seems that in the 245 we should ignore the dagger and transcribe the title as if it is not there, and provide 246s with

Re: [RDA-L] Date of publication

2013-09-06 Thread M. E.
Gary Oliver oliv...@acu.edu wrote: I have a book about a cemetery which was published by the author. There is no date of any kind. There is a list of people with their years of birth and death interred in this cemetery. The latest year of death in this list is 2011. Noted. I emailed

Re: [RDA-L] Date of publication

2013-09-06 Thread M. E.
J. McRee Elrod m...@slc.bc.ca wrote: Mark, I notice you did not question my poorly written comment :-{)}. Yeah, there are only so many hornets' nests I want to poke a stick into on a Friday afternoon. :) -- Mark K. Ehlert Minitex http://www.minitex.umn.edu/

Re: [RDA-L] Date of publication

2013-09-06 Thread M. E.
J. McRee Elrod m...@slc.bc.ca wrote: I don't understand how you arrived at this conclusion. Under 2.2.4, among your choices are b) other published descriptions of the resource and d) any other available source (e.g., a reference source). Nothing here says to me that these sources must be in

Re: [RDA-L] Publication Date

2013-09-02 Thread M. E.
Greta de Groat gdegr...@stanford.edu wrote: Mark, you and i talked a little bit on the PCC list on June 13 about how to tell the difference between a transmittal date and publication date, with no practical conclusion that i could see. Did your GODORT contact ever get any guidance? Looking

Re: [RDA-L] honouree vs. honoree

2013-09-02 Thread M. E.
I'll quickly add that there's a watercolour under 3.7 (Applied Material) that might pop up now and again for art works. -- Mark K. Ehlert Minitex http://www.minitex.umn.edu/

Re: [RDA-L] initials in 378 $q

2013-09-02 Thread M. E.
Corey O'Halloran fid...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm wondering if it's good practice to add initials for personal names in 378$q. For example, 100 $aJohnson, John,$d1886-1962 378 $a [i.e., q] John S. 670 $aApples and oranges, 2012:$bcover (John S. Johnson) In this case the initial for the

Re: [RDA-L] recording on unnumbered plates

2013-09-02 Thread M. E.
Sian Woolcock sian.woolc...@adelaide.edu.au wrote: We are currently having a discussion about recording the number of unnumbered plates in the extent field (MARC 300). The RDA toolkit has us confused on this. ** ** ** Previously under AACR2 rules, if we had a book with unnumbered plates

Re: [RDA-L] Leaf (new RDA glossary term and definition)

2013-07-17 Thread M. E.
Kevin M Randall k...@northwestern.edu wrote: But then don't the words leaves and pages also constitute Anglocentrism??? p. = pagina/paginae ed. = editio ill. = illustratio/illustrationes -- Mark K. Ehlert Minitex http://www.minitex.umn.edu/

Re: [RDA-L] Change to option in 2.4.1.5 (Statement of responsibility naming more than one person, etc.)

2013-07-15 Thread M. E.
J. McRee Elrod m...@slc.bc.ca wrote: SLC will give at least three from each category. Giving only the first would be less access than AACR2 in some cases. Read it again. If a single statement of responsibility names MORE THAN THREE persons, families, or corporate bodies performing the same

Re: [RDA-L] Leaf (new RDA glossary term and definition)

2013-07-15 Thread M. E.
For those interested, there was conversation on some of these points last summer. http://wikis.ala.org/ccda/index.php/6JSC/LC/21 Parts of the commentary on the wiki came from a thread or two on the PCCLIST last summer. See the thread with subject line 6JSC/LC/21 at:

Re: [RDA-L] Change to option in 2.4.1.5 (Statement of responsibility naming more than one person, etc.)

2013-07-15 Thread M. E.
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 5:45 PM, M. E. m.k.e.m...@gmail.com wrote: This is a continuation of AACR2's rule of three, at least as far as the number of names to post go. Mea culpa. ...at least as far as the number of names that should appear before invoking. -- Mark K. Ehlert Minitex http

Re: [RDA-L] Author affiliations

2013-07-11 Thread M. E.
Stan Allen sal...@socialaw.com wrote: Does RDA expect us to add more than author names to the 245, such as Esq., PH.D., Dr. and even the law firm lawyers are members of at the time the book is written? If the info is part of the statement of responsibility as found on the piece, the default

Re: [RDA-L] Photocopy of a thesis in RDA?

2013-07-10 Thread M. E.
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 2:44 PM, M. E. m.k.e.m...@gmail.com wrote: N.B.: There's a disconnect between the sources--including outside the resource--from which the producer's name may stem as found under 2.7.4.2 (and 2.2.4), and the instructions under 2.7.4.7, which jump right into producer

Re: [RDA-L] Publication Date

2013-07-10 Thread M. E.
DeSio, Sandra sde...@indiantrailslibrary.org wrote: RDA 2.8.1.4 says to record dates of publication as they appear on the source of information. And further states that any words that are part of the date get transcribed (that reference to 1.7). RDA gives 3 options for the number half of the

Re: [RDA-L] Unsubscribe help

2013-07-10 Thread M. E.
Stephen Early sea...@crl.edu wrote: Maybe the listowners could set things up so that a footer with subscription information appears in each email? This is what the OCLC-CAT list does. As it is, finding the proper up-to-date commands to answer this question involves web searching and

Re: [RDA-L] Photocopy of a thesis in RDA?

2013-07-09 Thread M. E.
Jack Wu j...@franciscan.edu wrote: Just a follow-up of questions on thesis for Country of Publication, etc. (008/15-17): In BibFormatStandards it says to use production information, but for Theses to use code xx blank for original and reproduced theses. In AACR2 it usually is 260 $c date,

Re: [RDA-L] Photocopy of a thesis in RDA?

2013-07-09 Thread M. E.
Jack Wu j...@franciscan.edu wrote: I interpret this to mean there would be no place in fixed country code if in 264 1 Publication field there's no $a, no $b but only $c; A publication statement would always include a $a and $b and $c, following RDA's core instruction. Question is what you

Re: [RDA-L] Photocopy of a thesis in RDA?

2013-07-09 Thread M. E.
Jack Wu j...@franciscan.edu wrote: Thank you for the clarification. May I ask a follow up question. If a thesis is produced but unpublished, we would have only a 264 0 and no 264 1. Would the 264 0 have $a Place $b [Producer not identified] $c Date, or could the 264 0 have only $c but

Re: [RDA-L] Photocopy of a thesis in RDA?

2013-07-09 Thread M. E.
J. McRee Elrod m...@slc.bc.ca wrote: Field 502 is not in brief display. There are no absolutes in cataloging. See attached. The same formatting appears in the search results list. -- Mark K. Ehlert Minitex http://www.minitex.umn.edu/ attachment: BriefThesis.jpg

Re: [RDA-L] Recording (large print) in the 300

2013-07-07 Thread M. E.
Northrup, Kristen D. knorth...@nd.gov wrote: I just hit three consecutive RDA records that don’t include “(large print)” in the 300. Usually RDA large print records include this, and 3.13.1.3 seems to imply that they should, but the fact that I hit several in a row is making me wonder if

Re: [RDA-L] Recording (large print)

2013-07-07 Thread M. E.
J. McRee Elrod m...@slc.bc.ca wrote: What is core for RDA, and what is core for patron needs, are two *very* different things! AACR2 had a qualified GMD: text (large print) which worked very well. This is but one example of AACR2's superiority over RDA in terms of meeting patron needs, as

Re: [RDA-L] approximately in access points

2013-07-05 Thread M. E.
J. McRee Elrod m...@slc.bc.ca wrote: A hyphens replacing b. or d. is fine with me, as as a question mark replace ca. (or approximately). RDA's question mark is the same AACR2's. It's AACR2's ca. altering to RDA's approximately that evokes consternation. Or do you see collapsing the

Re: [RDA-L] Abbreviating place of publication (was 264 question)

2013-07-05 Thread M. E.
Northrup, Kristen D. knorth...@nd.gov wrote: One thing we're regularly coming across in our copy cataloging is someone changing transcription to postal codes. For example, we get many records from Thorndike Press. It says Waterville, Maine on the item. DLC does a pre-pub with the

Re: [RDA-L] Translated from notes and code for original language

2013-07-03 Thread M. E.
Joan Wang jw...@illinoisheartland.org wrote: I initially thought that RDA does not involve encoding. MARC encoding is another thing and technique. But it is hard, at least so far, to completely distinguish RDA, a resource description rule, from MARC encoding. We still can see shades of MARC

Re: [RDA-L] Photocopy of a thesis in RDA?

2013-07-03 Thread M. E.
J. McRee Elrod m...@slc.bc.ca wrote: Yes, but all it affects in 264 2nd indicator. You provide 264 0 $aPlace, Jurisdiction :$bDegree Granting Institution,$cyear. Does the Degree Granting Institution produce the thesis? Or the student? ... My 502 for the thesis is: $b Th. D. $c

Re: [RDA-L] Publication date including month or exact date: examples?

2013-07-03 Thread M. E.
Heidrun Wiesenmüller wiesenmuel...@hdm-stuttgart.de wrote: In 2.8.6.3 (Recording date of publication) there is an example May 2000. This shows that not only the year, but also the month and presumably even the exact date of publication is to be recorded in this element, if it is given in the

Re: [RDA-L] Jurisdiction in imprint

2013-06-26 Thread M. E.
J. McRee Elrod m...@slc.bc.ca wrote: In addition to the advantage of transcribing or supplying jurisdiction in a form patrons can read, we do not know (do we?) that Bibframe will have an equivalent to 008/15-17 Place of jurisdiction. Might having that data in imprint be even more important

Re: [RDA-L] Jurisdiction in imprint

2013-06-26 Thread M. E.
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:05 AM, M. E. m.k.e.m...@gmail.com wrote: I don't see that portion of the 008 field listed here ( http://bibframe.org/vocab/Instance.html), which is odd since I think it would square pretty easily with the 260 $a/264 -1 $a given on that list. I should add

Re: [RDA-L] another (basic) 264 query

2013-06-25 Thread M. E.
Karen Nelson knel...@capilanou.ca wrote: But I am still wondering about the issue of the author holding copyright … does her name go in the second 264, if a second one is kept? Haven’t seen it done so far. The 264 field dedicated to copyright is for the date alone--that's it. So all you'll

Re: [RDA-L] Can Lecturer be used as a valid relator term and do you have a good example of a DVD + Book RDA record?

2013-06-25 Thread M. E.
Dana Van Meter vanme...@ias.edu wrote: 1. Are we allowed to use, then, the more specific terms indented underneath the relationship designator performer (which is in bold), or are we to use performer only, to cover all those types of situations represented by the more specific indented not

Re: [RDA-L] Can Lecturer be used as a valid relator term and do you have a good example of a DVD + Book RDA record?

2013-06-25 Thread M. E.
Dana Van Meter vanme...@ias.edu wrote: In the case of the $4 code, you’re saying you would use just the $4 code, right? (And not a combination of $4 plus $e using the terminology accompanying the code in the MARC Code List for Relators?). I don’t have a problem with using just the $4 code, I

Re: [RDA-L] 260 and 264 Fields

2013-06-23 Thread M. E.
Myers, John F. mye...@union.edu wrote: This issue was explored thoroughly in discussion paper and proposal submitted to MARBI. Links to said discussion paper and proposal (which have links of their own pointing to a couple earlier documents). Discussion paper:

Re: [RDA-L] 264 dates

2013-06-18 Thread M. E.
J. McRee Elrod m...@slc.bc.ca wrote: John F, Myers posted: EXAMPLE [between 1846 and 1853?] [between 1800 and 1899?] [between 1970 and 1979?] [between 1400 and 1600?] These Anglo centrc phrases will not fly for non English languge materials in non English

Re: [RDA-L] Justification of Acces Points

2013-06-17 Thread M. E.
Don Charuk dcha...@torontopubliclibrary.ca wrote: From my readings and the reading other's comments it has been said that RDA no longer requires you to justify your additional access points. Is this a valid interpretation of people's comments? If, so is there a specific rule that states this

Re: [RDA-L] German and French texts of RDA

2013-05-15 Thread M. E.
Heidrun Wiesenmüller wiesenmuel...@hdm-stuttgart.de wrote: Actually, I had hoped for an easier way to switch between languages. Even better would have been a possibility to directly compare e.g. the English and the German version (perhaps by having both texts in two different windows at the

Re: [RDA-L] GMD Designator Searching with RDA

2013-05-15 Thread M. E.
Payne, Ophelia (omp2w) om...@virginia.edu wrote: I know there was a long discussion last week about the 336, 337 and 338 fields for RDA and I was trying to see if my question was addressed. My question is--- with the elimination of the GMD designator for videorecordings, sound recordings,

Re: [RDA-L] Initials in names of persons

2013-04-18 Thread M. E.
Gene Fieg gf...@cst.edu wrote: Heidrun, as to the why, I have no idea. Perhaps, it had to do with way computers read letters only, and by putting a space between them, it could read better. It might even go further back than that, to card filing rules--at least for the spacing in headings.

Re: [RDA-L] Spelling of Qur'an

2013-04-15 Thread M. E.
Dana Van Meter vanme...@ias.edu wrote: This may not be at all relevant here, but I have been noticing for at least a year now that I have difficulty searching anything with an apostrophe in LC's authority file. If I copy a heading which contains an apostrophe from the body of a record in

Re: [RDA-L] New format reproductions and RDA

2013-04-08 Thread M. E.
J. McRee Elrod m...@slc.bc.ca wrote: RDA has WEMI; Bibframe has W/I. My limited grasp of the BIBFRAME discussion suggests that it doesn't have to be structured as WEMI. Since it's trying to be all things to all people, it only has to accommodate it. -- Mark K. Ehlert Minitex

Re: [RDA-L] Relationships and comic books/graphic novels

2013-04-04 Thread M. E.
Baumgarten, Richard, JCL baumgart...@jocolibrary.org wrote: If we use the MARC relator code list, do we need to add a subfield 2 to tell what thesaurus that we used? I read the $4 as self-defined in that regard--source from only the MARC relator codes list. For instance:

Re: [RDA-L] 2.4.3.3 Parallel statements of responsibility

2013-04-02 Thread M. E.
Heidrun Wiesenmüller wiesenmuel...@hdm-stuttgart.de wrote: Well, let’s wait and see what Chris Oliver has come up with. I gather the rest of the reworded chapters should appear soon in the Toolkit (by the way, wasn't it announced that chapters 2 and 3 should be published in February?).

Re: [RDA-L] 2.4.3.3 Parallel statements of responsibility

2013-04-02 Thread M. E.
Heidrun Wiesenmüller wiesenmuel...@hdm-stuttgart.de wrote: But be that as it may: There is indeed an example for a grammatically incomplete s-o-r in the ISBD (which was news to me), and this must give us cause to think again (although of course we know that RDA deviates from the ISBD

Re: [RDA-L] Capitalization of approximately in 300

2013-04-02 Thread M. E.
Arakawa, Steven steven.arak...@yale.edu wrote: Curiously, in AACR2 2.5B7, the initial term in the extent examples is ca. which is now approximately in RDA, but it's ca. not Ca. Was AACR2 being inconsistent with ISBD in the examples? Looks like it. And there are also leaves 81-149 and p.

Re: [RDA-L] Capitalization of approximately in 300

2013-04-02 Thread M. E.
Amanda Sprochi sproc...@health.missouri.edu wrote: I'm working on a shorthand cheat sheet for RDA. My question: in the extent element [300 field in MARC], it says to use the word approximately with an estimation of units if the number cannot be easily ascertained. All of the examples have

Re: [RDA-L] relationship designator and in cooperation with

2013-04-02 Thread M. E.
Alison Hitchens ahitc...@uwaterloo.ca wrote: Thanks Mac, I may have missed it on the list if there was a discussion that we could use element names as relators. I had RDA-L set to no mail while I was away! I've been going by the LC RDA training modules and they give the example of

Re: [RDA-L] recording production statements

2013-04-02 Thread M. E.
Fox, Chris c...@byui.edu wrote: I'm fine with going with just the date, if there's agreement that it isn't published I was going to comment on this point up-thread, but was waylaid till now. Is the choreographer creating DVDs of the performance for whomever asks for it? If so, this sounds

Re: [RDA-L] Publication date/copyright date

2013-04-01 Thread M. E.
Ian Fairclough ifairclough43...@yahoo.com wrote: I have been wondering how and why this situation concerning publication in a year yet to come arose, and why LCPCCPS was written the way it is. Perhaps the situation developed from an attempt in LCPCCPS to make RDA easier to use while

Re: [RDA-L] 2.4.3.3 Parallel statements of responsibility

2013-04-01 Thread M. E.
Benjamin A Abrahamse babra...@mit.edu wrote: When a resource has parallel statements of responsibility on its chief source of information, but only the connecting words are parallel, not the names themselves, how does one treat this under RDA? Monkeywrench. An example from ISBD

Re: [RDA-L] Query re. 264 in RDA Toolkit

2013-03-22 Thread M. E.
Harden, Jean jean.har...@unt.edu wrote: The mappings haven’t been updated yet. Once they are, 264 will appear where appropriate. And to follow on Jean's response, if you scroll to the very bottom of the MARC-to-RDA and RDA-to-MARC pages, the latest update date is given. These were last touched

Re: [RDA-L] Question about edition statements

2013-03-21 Thread M. E.
Michael Borries michael.borr...@mail.cuny.edu wrote: A quick question. RDA 2.5.2.2 states that the sources of information for an edition statement are: ** ** 1. the same source as the title proper ** ** 2. another source within the resource itself ** ** 3. one of the

Re: [RDA-L] Question about edition statements

2013-03-21 Thread M. E.
Aaron Smith aaronkaysm...@gmail.com wrote: For OCLC users, the future optional addition will continue to be absolutely necessary to avoid inadvertent record mergers via OCLC's Duplicate Detection and Resolution algorithm; notes don't have adequate weight to avoid the merger. And I

Re: [RDA-L] Technical report dates and publication

2013-03-19 Thread M. E.
Deborah Fritz debo...@marcofquality.com wrote: It is also very interesting that Mark indicates that there **was**, at one point, an LC PS for 2.8.6.1 (Scope for Date of Publication) that continued the practice of using a date of release to supply a publication date, but that LC PS also did

Re: [RDA-L] Exact unit names

2013-03-19 Thread M. E.
J. McRee Elrod m...@slc.bc.ca wrote: Pam said: The Toolkit states Record the extent of the resource by giving the number of units and an appropriate term for the type of carrier as listed under 3.3.1.3. Therefore, wouldn't we use 1 videodisc rather than 1 DVD? RDA also has the option of

Re: [RDA-L] RDA and the Title Proper

2013-03-19 Thread M. E.
Kevin M Randall k...@northwestern.edu wrote: This touches on one of my favorite cataloging pet peeves, which is the tendency of many catalogers to treat as other title information things that really should be seen as essential parts of the title proper. Another example came up on AUTOCAT a

Re: [RDA-L] Numbered and Unnumbered Sequences

2013-03-14 Thread M. E.
Ian Fairclough ifairclough43...@yahoo.com wrote: I found this as a pagination statement: [xvii], 219 pages The source has no initial sequence with roman numerals. I have not found instructions for use of brackets with supplied page numbering. Nor does the bibliographic record refer

Re: [RDA-L] RDA instructions for accompanying material?

2013-03-14 Thread M. E.
JOHN C ATTIG jx...@psu.edu wrote: I proposed this issue as a project to CC:DA, and there is a Task Force working to draft appropriate instructions for recording both contents notes and accompanying materials statements (and perhaps other things); a preliminary report of this Task Force (which

Re: [RDA-L] eBooks Playaways

2013-03-14 Thread M. E.
Ian Fairclough ifairclough43...@yahoo.com wrote: Granted that a Playaway can be judged as unmediated. But nevertheless, something that arose earlier in this discussion caught my attention: the suggested use of other with media type audio. Surely other is only established as controlled

Re: [RDA-L] S-o-R/RDA 2.4.1.4

2013-03-14 Thread M. E.
Joan Wang jw...@illinoisheartland.org wrote: If data can be transcribed as elements in categories, such as Author, Name: Date: Affiliation: , and then authority records could be automatically created. Is that right? Just my imagination :) Could be. So far in MARC, the 38x fields

Re: [RDA-L] RDA instructions for accompanying material?

2013-03-14 Thread M. E.
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 9:56 AM, M. E. m.k.e.m...@gmail.com wrote: I for one welcome the strawman proposal instruction 27.1.1.3.2.3 on page 23. As RDA stands now, book-ish accompanying material isn't handled well. I should clarify that last sentence: if following one of the ISBD options

Re: [RDA-L] RDA instructions for accompanying material?

2013-03-14 Thread M. E.
Ian Fairclough ifairclough43...@yahoo.com wrote: Kevin Randall said I'm not understanding what the difficulty is. The difficulty was a couple of missing links in RDA Toolkit. I was not succeeding in getting to the right part of RDA (and in this case, LC PCC PS), namely 3.1.4. The redirects

Re: [RDA-L] Technical report dates and publication

2013-03-14 Thread M. E.
Arthur Liu art@gmail.com wrote: I am unsure how to handle dates of publication for technical reports. Generally, technical reports bear a date in the format Month Year (e.g. December 2012) on the cover and/or technical report documentation page. (Many reports do not have a title page.)

Re: [RDA-L] eBooks Playaways

2013-03-12 Thread M. E.
Pam Withrow withr...@perma-bound.com wrote: Playaway Audio 336 - spoken word 337 - audio 338 - audio cartridge In my opinion: 336 -- spoken word 337 -- audio 338 -- other A Playaway Audio doesn't quite fit under the definition of an audio cartridge (a cartridge containing audio tape). --

Re: [RDA-L] Relator code and term punctucation

2013-03-12 Thread M. E.
Michael Chopey cho...@hawaii.edu wrote: I don't know where the instruction for preceding the $e with a comma is to be found, nor the instruction not to include the comma when the field preceding the $e ends with a hyphen. The closest I ever got: A comma is used ... to separate date, number,

Re: [RDA-L] eBooks Playaways

2013-03-12 Thread M. E.
Robert Maxwell robert_maxw...@byu.edu wrote: In my opinion a Playaway is unmediated. You don’t need anything other than the object itself (and a source of electricity) to get the information, in contrast to, say, a CD, which you need to put in a machine in order to use. Good point. I

Re: [RDA-L] Relator code and term punctucation

2013-03-12 Thread M. E.
Deborah Fritz debo...@marcofquality.com wrote: For preceding the $e with a comma, see the LC PCC PS for 1.7.1 Access Points in Name Authority and Bibliographic Records (General) http://access.rdatoolkit.org/document.php?id=lcpschp1target=lcps1-223#lcps1-223 ** ** 1.

Re: [RDA-L] Use of ISBD punctuation with RDA. And a workshop.

2013-03-04 Thread M. E.
Joan Wang jw...@illinoisheartland.org wrote: Punctuations are included in RDA Toolkit Appendix D.1.2 and LC-PCC PS for 1.7.1http://access.rdatoolkit.org/document.php?id=rdachp1target=rda1-787#rda1-787 GENERAL GUIDELINES ON TRANSCRIPTION In the LC-PCC PS general guidelines, you can see

Re: [RDA-L] Use of ISBD punctuation with RDA. And a workshop.

2013-03-01 Thread M. E.
Ian Fairclough ifairclough43...@yahoo.com wrote: Will they need to know about periods at the end of fields, and ISBD punctuation? I doubt it. I agree. However, I still mention this to folks since I can't judge who does or who doesn't care about this sort of thing. On the double punctuation

Re: [RDA-L] Relators for contributors and consultants (fwd)

2013-03-01 Thread M. E.
M. E. m.k.e.m...@gmail.com wrote: 19.3: Other Person, Family, and Corporate Body Associated with a Work Designator: other (work) Example: 700 1- Doe, John, $e other (work) 21.6: Other Person, Family, and Corporate Body Associated with a Manifestation Designator: other (manifestation) 22.4

Re: [RDA-L] note order in RDA

2013-02-28 Thread M. E.
I don't see a reply to this post, so I'll give it a go. Joan Wang jw...@illinoisheartland.org wrote: Is there a note order requirement in RDA? Nope. At least, not in the main body of RDA. I searched RDA Toolkit and found Order of Elements in Appendix D.1 ISBD Presentation (LC PCC PS). There

Re: [RDA-L] relationship designator between two aggregate works

2013-02-28 Thread M. E.
J. McRee Elrod m...@slc.bc.ca wrote: Todaka said: We are working on an RDA record for a compilation of columns selected from the Science Scope journal. We wanted to provide an access point for Science Scope in 730 field. The recently added $4prv Provider seems right to me. If the journal

Re: [RDA-L] Use of subfield $b in 336, 337, 338

2013-02-28 Thread M. E.
Michael Borries michael.borr...@mail.cuny.edu wrote: At this point is it considered necessary in fields 336-338 to use both subfield $a with the term spelled out and also subfield $b with the code, or is subfield $a with the term spelled out sufficient? I seem to see both usages in various

Re: [RDA-L] Relators for contributors and consultants (fwd)

2013-02-28 Thread M. E.
J. McRee Elrod m...@slc.bc.ca wrote: I said: We need a $e term and $4 code for contributor. Could someone with the appropriate skills and connections propose the addition of contributor to RDA relationship terms ... It's already in RDA: see 20.2. It's just not explicitly listed in RDA

Re: [RDA-L] Quick question re: abridgements in RDA

2012-12-16 Thread M. E.
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Benjamin A Abrahamse babra...@mit.edu wrote: If we have a book that abridges another book, do we use MARC field 777 (other relationship) to code the relationship? And is the $i text abridgement of (work) -- not capitalized as in RDA appendix J -- or can we

Re: [RDA-L] [and X others]

2012-11-30 Thread M. E.
Michael Cohen mco...@library.wisc.edu wrote: The example given is Roger Colbourne [and six others] Some records in OCLC use the numerals rather than words, e.g. OCLC #785874875 which has [and 5 others]. Is the use of words vs. numerals prescribed by RDA or PCC, or is this a local decision

Re: [RDA-L] Recording unnumbered pages/leaves of plates

2012-11-30 Thread M. E.
Yuji Tosaka tos...@tcnj.edu wrote: Per RDA 3.4.5.9, let's say that we decided to record unnumbered sequences of plates because they constitutes a substantial part of the resource. RDA has the following example: xii, 24 pages, 212 leaves of plates, 43 unnumbered leaves of plates But let's

Re: [RDA-L] Hardback paperback, and their ISBN

2012-11-30 Thread M. E.
Henry Lam he...@silas.org.sg wrote: 2. ISBN + qualifier: b. One of the objective of RDA is to make data become more data, more usable to the machine. The qualifier is not part of the identifier. Putting two data in one MARC subfield seems to me contradicting to this objective. This

Re: [RDA-L] Preferred title of manifestation(Was: Re:Date of publication not identified DtSt, Dates)

2012-10-25 Thread M. E.
Henry Lam he...@silas.org.sg wrote: Do we need a Preferred Title of Manifestation or Authorised Access Point for Manifestation to connect the manifestation to other Group 1 entities? I heard rumblings about doing such a thing a couple years ago. Don't know if it got any further than the I

Re: [RDA-L] [ACAT] Main entry in RDA

2012-10-25 Thread M. E.
J. McRee Elrod m...@slc.bc.ca wrote: In RDA it is required to transcribe and trace only one. To be accurate, RDA requires transcribing the *first* statement of responsibility, not the first name therein. ... / written by X ; illustrated by Y ; edited by Z. Written by X is the bare minimum

Re: [RDA-L] RDA for video recordings

2012-08-15 Thread M. E.
JOHN C ATTIG jx...@psu.edu wrote: It is possible that a cataloger might decide that the names of persons responsible for the work should be recorded in 245$c. Although RDA does not say this explicitly, it does not explicitly contradict it either. The cataloger taking that route might be

Re: [RDA-L] RDA for video recordings

2012-08-15 Thread M. E.
J. McRee Elrod m...@slc.bc.ca wrote: The cataloger taking that route might be reading the wording of RDA 2.4.2.1 (the identification and/or function of any persons, families, or corporate bodies responsible for the creation of, or contributing to the realization of, the intellectual or artistic

Re: [RDA-L] Order of 040 subfields

2012-08-14 Thread M. E.
Patton,Glenn patt...@oclc.org wrote: Thanks to Joanna for citing this PCC recommendation. OCLC’s view on the order of subfields is also very much influenced by this recommendation. We believe that having $e in a consistent position and in the position that is recommended will assist in the

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