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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#215868">I’ve been thinking about how to indicate misprints in an RDA-acceptable way for DCRM. There was a decisive consensus during the preconference discussion session that it was imperative
for us to be able to indicate a misprint within the element. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#215868">We could continue our current way of doing this, via “[sic]” and “[i.e.]”, but I’d rather we found a way to comply with the spirit of RDA by eschewing Latin words and abbreviations.
“Sic” is problematic, since it’s technical meaning is “thus” and has been used to indicate not only misprints but pre-modern but acceptable spellings, and in some cases, even the absence of a period after an abbreviation:
</span>London : Printed by Tho [sic] Cotes, <span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#215868">
<a href="http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=97497">http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=97497</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#215868">I’ve been experimenting with using “[that is, … ]” to give correct readings of all misprints and false imprints, and just bracketed insertions for missing words. Please see the attached
for some early explorations. Please pay particular attention to items 8, 11, & 12.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#215868">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#215868">Deborah<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#215868">Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S. | Head of Cataloging, Folger Shakespeare Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#215868"><a href="mailto:djleslie@folger.edu"><span style="color:#215868;text-decoration:none">djleslie@folger.edu</span></a> | 202.675-0369 | www.folger.edu</span><span style="color:#215868"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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