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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Dear DCRM-L Community,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Some months ago, Manon Théroux put together a chart on how the different DCRM manuals treat manuscript material, which revealed a number of important differences between the manuals, especially
in comparison to DCRM(MSS). The most prominent is whether to use square brackets when supplying text in a transcription field (areas 1, 2, 4, and 6). Traditionally, catalogs of manuscripts and archival collections do not bracket supplied information. Since
a basic principle of DCRM construction is not to deviate from AACR2 unless there's a rare material reason to depart, or from the already-published DCRM manuals unless there's a format-specific reason to depart, the DCRM Steering Group asked the DCRM(MSS) editorial
group to justify the format-specific reason for departing from bracketing in transcription fields.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">For the origins of this discussion, see
<a href="http://dcrmsteeringgroup.pbworks.com/w/page/66689534/Discussion%20topic%3A%20Manuscripts%20across%20DCRM">
http://dcrmsteeringgroup.pbworks.com/w/page/66689534/Discussion%20topic%3A%20Manuscripts%20across%20DCRM</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">For the DCRM(MSS) response, see
<a href="http://dcrmsteeringgroup.pbworks.com/w/page/68229123/Discussion%20topic%3A%20Manuscript%20Bracketing">
http://dcrmsteeringgroup.pbworks.com/w/page/68229123/Discussion%20topic%3A%20Manuscript%20Bracketing</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Anyone may view the contents of the DCRM Steering Group workspace; those wishing to comment on the pages or request automatic notifications when the workspace has been changed will please to follow
the request link on the PBworks workspace. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">The Steering Group and the DCRM(MSS) editorial group would like to hear from the larger community before proceeding, which we will do after Labor Day.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Deborah <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Convenor, DCRM Steering Group
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#005EA4">Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S. | Folger Shakespeare Library | 201 East Capitol St., S.E. | Washington, D.C. 20003 |
<a href="mailto:djleslie@folger.edu"><span style="color:#005EA4">djleslie@folger.edu</span></a></span><span style="color:#005EA4">
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#005EA4">| 202.675-0369 | <a href="http://www.folger.edu/">
<span style="color:#005EA4">http://www.folger.edu</span></a> </span><span style="color:#005EA4"> </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#005EA4"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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