<font><font face="georgia,serif">A punctuation variant is of no value in the system. Why not follow original punctuation in the 245 transcription? 246, in this instance, is designed to provide alternate indexing strings, which are not affected by the omission of the comma, and it's not even identified as the <i>original</i> punctuation.</font></font><div>
<font><font face="georgia,serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">Obiter dictum: Frankly, I thing the whole 245 thing is a a bit of a crock in DCRM. The data have two functions, mostly compatible in "regular" cataloging--to enable discovery by way of a conventionalized transfer of information from the from the object itself, and matching, on a "best bet" basis (if the resulting title transcriptions match, the actual titles are quite probably "the same"). DCRM adds a bit more granularity to the latter function, to provide a more reassuring test for possible distinction of manifestations, or variants within a manifestation that must be accounted for and <i>dis</i>counted as distinguishing manifestations; but it complicates that function by retaining too many of the transformative conventions of regular cataloging (transpositions, omissions, purely aesthetic one-way typographical adjustments, etc.).</font></div>
<div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">More useful would be a designated field (or possibly an allowable use of 246 with a standard $i prefix) for direct transcription, identified as such. </font><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">An image would work even better. The question is whether there are still too many contexts in which an image is not usable. Does anyone still dwell in Low-ASCII Land?</span></div>
<div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">Of course (and this has consequences for the functions under discussion and the resources required to implement them properly) we're dealing now with RDA's incomplete implementation of FRBR. Following its usual habit of not talking in terms that make sense in <i>cataloging</i> (as opposed to bibliography), RDA does not provide for authority records for manifestations. That's what <i>bibliographies</i> do: every entry is essentially an authority record, with notes on copies. The RDA enterprise really envisions the transformation of cataloging (object description and inventory) into bibliography (a comprehensive account of entity relationships). "Envisions", I say--but the "vision" is not on display, and, I fear, may be hidden even from its creators.</font></div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Erin Blake <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:EBlake@folger.edu" target="_blank">EBlake@folger.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Does one use "common sense in deciding whether to include the punctuation, omit it, replace it, or add punctuation not present" in a 246 for how a title looks on the page? This came up in the close reading of DCRM(G).<br>
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Source: SER, SIVE SERICVS VERMIS<br>
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245: Ser, siue, Sericus vermis (comma added after Latin "or")<br>
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246: Ser, sive Sericus vermis (punctuation as given on the piece)<br>
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246: Ser, sive Sericvs vermis (punctuation as given on the piece)<br>
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Erin.<br>
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