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] Habilitation theses

2013-12-03 Thread Benjamin A Abrahamse
Since habilitation is not an Anglo-American institution, I would be surprised indeed if RDA discusses it. (Just to confirm--searching the Toolkit for habilitation or any of its variants returns no hits.) So I think this is an area where the (Continental) European cataloging community will have

Re: [RDA-L] Habilitation theses

2013-12-03 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
Ben, You're right. We'll try and work something out. One idea which has already come up is defining an additional element which would express the character of a thesis instead of a specific degree. But isn't it amazing how these cultural differences pop up at the most unexpected places. I