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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">According to my notes as DCRM(G) chief editor, the change from "Very long dates" to "Spelled-out and unconventional dates" was the result of deliberations by members of the DCRM Steering Group on at a teleconference
on February 12, 2013, for pretty much exactly the reasons you give.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I don't know why DCRM(S) doesn't mention it at all, but unfortunately, I do know why DCRM(C) uses the earlier wording: the results of the February 2013 meeting either missed getting into the DCRM Edits Wiki completely,
or missed being transferred from the ACRL version of that wiki to its replacement at http://dcrmedits.pbworks.com/ when the content migrated in September 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Once I get over the shock that this happened at all, I'll figure out how to proceed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Erin <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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202-675-0323</a> | fax <a href="tel:%2B1%20202-675-0328" target="_blank">+1 202-675-0328</a> | <a href="http://www.folger.edu/" target="_blank">www.folger.edu</a></span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>James, Kate<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, August 23, 2016 2:32 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [DCRM-L] question about transcribing "very long dates" or "spelled-out and unconventional dates"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi everyone,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am asking this strictly out of my own curiosity, not on behalf of the Policy and Standards Division of the Library of Congress.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have a question about “very long dates” I’m hoping someone familiar with multiple DCRMs can answer for me. In DCRM(B) 4D2.3, it says, “If the statement of the date in the publication is very long, substitute for it a formalized statement
in square brackets. If the supplied date includes a day/month, use the sequence: day, month, year. Make a note concerning the source and the original form of the statement.” DCRM(C) has this same instruction. However, in DCRM(G), 4D2.3 is called “Spelled-out
and unconventional dates” and it says, “If the date is spelled out or unconventionally expressed, generally transcribe it as it appears. Supply the year in arabic numerals in square brackets.” Then when I looked in DCRM(S), I found nothing about what to do
with either “very long dates” or “spelled-out and unconventional dates.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I do not understand the discrepancy in treatment among these various manuals. DCRM(G) seems to provide the most principled approach because tells you to give the user the date as it appears in the source (which helps with identification
of a particular manifestation) and then to supply the year in arabic numerals (which helps users to quickly determine a date of publication). I don’t understand why DCRM(B) 1) describes this as “very long dates” which seems a very amorphous idea and 2) does
not allow for both transcribing the date as it appears within the element and supplying modern form in square brackets since this is done for several other date styles like dates in Roman numerals? I supposed since there is room for judgment about what a
“very long date” is, I could decide that “Anno gratiae millesimo quingentesimo septimo die vero decimoctavo Maij” isn’t very long and transcribe it as found for a rare book. However, that seems to be a less standard approach that might result in different
copies of the same manifestation at different libraries not being identified as such.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Also, why does DCRM(S) not mention this at all? It seems like this would come up with rare serials sometimes, so is there another instruction in DCRM(S) that I am missing?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The only principled reason for this discrepancy is that for some reason, a transcribed date of publication is more important for graphic materials than it is for books or cartographic materials. For anyone who has experiencing cataloging
all these types of materials, is that a valid line of reasoning? Or, are the discrepancies a result of the different DCRMs being worked on by different people at different times? That explains the difference between DCRM(B) and DCRM(G) but it doesn’t explain
why there is nothing in DCRM(S) or why DCRM(C) is modeled on the older DCRM instead of the newer one.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for any insights into this issue. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kate<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kate James<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Policy and Standards Division<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Library of Congress<o:p></o:p></p>
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