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<body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div>Quite seriously, I <u>do</u> think Erin Blake's point is a good one, the general question as well as the specific example. </div><div><br></div><div>I wonder how many jurisdictions there are which are commonly recognised and referred to by an adjective or a generic noun <u>before</u> the place name? United States ... United Kingdom ... United Arab Emirates ... more? Maybe <em>Republic</em> of South Africa (common abbreviation R.S.A., not just S.A., which can be confused with South Australia)? Are these the forms that users will normally think of, and does Getty take the same line?</div><div><br></div><div>T.C.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Sat, 30 Aug 2014 10:41:27 +0100, Tony Curwen <tony.curwen@zen.co.uk> wrote:<br></div><br><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0.80ex; border-left: #0000FF 2px solid; padding-left: 1ex"><div><font face="'Arial',sans-serif">Perhaps this one should be put on hold for another three weeks? Alas, power-brokers, politicians, planners – and people generally – never seem to have the courtesy and common-sense to consult cataloguers about the implications and likely consequences of their actions before plunging ahead. "Disunited Kingdom ... " ? "Former United Kingdom ... " ??</font></div><div><font face="'Arial',sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'Arial',sans-serif">T.C.<br></font></div><div><font face="'Arial',sans-serif">Englishman married to a Scot, living long in lovely west Wales<br></font></div><div><font face="'Arial',sans-serif">Former consultant, CERL<br></font></div><div><font face="'Arial',sans-serif">(It's high time I gave up reading the postings on this list, but they're addictive!) <br></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 22:38:27 +0100, Erin Blake <EBlake@folger.edu> wrote:<br></div><br><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0.80ex; border-left: #0000FF 2px solid; padding-left: 1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Does anyone know if there's ever been a campaign to get "United Kingdom" instead of "Great Britain" as the authorized form of the name in the Library of Congress Authorities file?
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<p class="MsoNormal">Our practice is to use LC-NAF as our source for the 752, and to start with the top order political jurisdiction. Unfortunately, that means we end up with things like "752 $a Great Britain $b Northern Ireland $d Belfast" which is just plain
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<p class="MsoNormal">Maybe time for us to switch to the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names as our source?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Having our users search on "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" and getting "See: Great Britain" as the result is embarrassing.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">EB.</p>
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