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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1F497D">The current draft of the RDA-compatible successor to DCRM – slated for community review in 2017 – adopts the instruction in DCRM Edits wiki for 4D2.3, i.e.:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Spelled-out and unconventional dates</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">. If the date is spelled out or unconventionally
expressed, generally transcribe it as it appears. Supply the equivalent year in arabic numerals in square brackets<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1F497D">The draft gives, as an alternative, an instruction similar to that of 4D2.8 in the DCRM Edits wiki, to record the date in arabic numerals in square brackets instead
of a transcription.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1F497D">Of course, some of this may be subject to change when RDA implements the “four-fold path” for dates of publication, etc. (making use of the Time-span entity proposed
in the FRBR-LRM).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Manon Theroux<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, August 23, 2016 3:44 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> DCRM Users' Group <dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [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">I think it probably never made it into the DCRM Edits wiki because it never got fully resolved.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__dcrmsteeringgroup.pbworks.com_w_page_63499593_2013-2D02-2D12&d=CwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=t7GDkvcZa922K6iya7a6MxgVxxw7OjL0m1rPBXkflk4&m=5ycnOQz_hgp1RiC6BkUUWMf5l3DCP_RVl17-GvxXsPU&s=jAW4oJ84RwJAPvmAIf1T2e8uQqnXsED61xJooLAHocw&e=">http://dcrmsteeringgroup.pbworks.com/w/page/63499593/2013-02-12</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is the page for the Feb. 2013 meeting. Under issue 2 (Years not expressed in roman or arabic numerals; very long dates) results, it says:<o:p></o:p></p>
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Applies to: all modules<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__dcrmsteeringgroup.pbworks.com_w_page_63635693_20130212-2520Issue-25202-2520-2D-2520results&d=CwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=t7GDkvcZa922K6iya7a6MxgVxxw7OjL0m1rPBXkflk4&m=5ycnOQz_hgp1RiC6BkUUWMf5l3DCP_RVl17-GvxXsPU&s=Omn0xCPI1lGQkCRpnwpYLGAagekrADZcIXuyYxzOYQY&e=">http://dcrmsteeringgroup.pbworks.com/w/page/63635693/20130212%20Issue%202%20-%20results</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is the page for issue #2. The comments end with Erin saying: "Still struggling with this."<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As for why it was in DCRM(B) to begin with, it probably just got carried over from DCRB.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Manon<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 3:27 PM, Erin Blake <<a href="mailto:EBlake@folger.edu" target="_blank">EBlake@folger.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><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 <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__dcrmedits.pbworks.com_&d=CwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=t7GDkvcZa922K6iya7a6MxgVxxw7OjL0m1rPBXkflk4&m=5ycnOQz_hgp1RiC6BkUUWMf5l3DCP_RVl17-GvxXsPU&s=04LoJ0INBChGHOc0tntamkWSujnBFMTcygDXffy6CW0&e=" target="_blank">http://dcrmedits.pbworks.com/</a>
when the content migrated in September 2013.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">Once I get over the shock that this happened at all, I'll figure out how to proceed.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Erin C. Blake, Ph.D. | Head of Collection Information Services | Folger Shakespeare Library | 201 E. Capitol St. SE, Washington, DC, 20003 | <a href="mailto:eblake@folger.edu" target="_blank">eblake@folger.edu</a> | office tel. <a href="tel:%2B1%20202-675-0323" target="_blank">+1
202-675-0323</a> | fax <a href="tel:%2B1%20202-675-0328" target="_blank">+1 202-675-0328</a> | <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.folger.edu_&d=CwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=t7GDkvcZa922K6iya7a6MxgVxxw7OjL0m1rPBXkflk4&m=5ycnOQz_hgp1RiC6BkUUWMf5l3DCP_RVl17-GvxXsPU&s=-zODLIOK4F0emfv5GJt2zhGOYAZwzcaOKRpkfOz0w-g&e=" target="_blank">www.folger.edu</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><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">
<a href="mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu" target="_blank">dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu" target="_blank">dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>James, Kate<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, August 23, 2016 2:32 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> '<a href="mailto:dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu" target="_blank">dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu</a>'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [DCRM-L] question about transcribing "very long dates" or "spelled-out and unconventional dates"</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Hi everyone,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">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" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">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" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">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" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">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" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">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" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Thanks for any insights into this issue.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Kate James<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Library of Congress<o:p></o:p></p>
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