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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The second round of discussion for RBMS PS review will focus on transcription (RDA 1.7). Due to the importance that transcription plays in rare materials cataloging, the
RBMS PSs for 1.7 provide extensive guidance that is not in RDA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">As it was in DCRM, the default</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"> transcription approach in the RBMS PS is to normalize punctuation and capitalization
based on textual use. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The majority of instructions for normalizing punctuation, transcribing early letters forms, etc. from DCRM have been carried over into the RBMS PS.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A few notable exceptions (some due to changes in scholarship since DCRM was first written) are<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">RBMS PS specify retaining internal marks of punctuation appearing within roman numerals</span>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">New provision (under RDA 1.7.4) to, as an optional addition, add diacritical marks with the pattern of usage in the text, when converting uppercase to lowercase.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">The transcription ‘vv’ is now treated like any other approximated character. Both ‘vv’ and ‘rv’ are transcribed as ‘w’, if ‘w’ is the intended character</span>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Ellipses in the source are omitted in the transcription or transcribed as is. They are no longer replaced by “--”</span>. If an ellipsis is transcribed, a
clarifying note stating the ellipsis on the piece is required.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">The RBMS PS also includes a provision to apply nonnormalized transcription, and transcribe punctuation and capitalization
as it appears on the source, when considered important. Within the nonnormalized transcription guidelines, exceptions are made to follow the regular RBMS PS transcription guidelines for square brackets, virgules, and punctuation representing line endings,
for various reasons. Catalogers that elect to apply nonnormalized transcription are asked to consistently apply all relevant guidelines throughout the description. This means that if a cataloger wishes to transcribe punctuation as it appears on the source
they would also have to transcribe capitalization as is as well. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Thoughts and comments on the proposed default approach to transcription in the RBMS PS and the inclusion of nonnormalized
transcription options, are solicited. I am particularly interested in thoughts about the requirement to transcribe both capitalization and punctuation as it appears from the source under nonnormalized transcription.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Attached is the draft RBMS PS for 1.7. As a reminder, the PS
</span>were written to be read in tandem with the RDA proper instruction they correspond to, and consequentially some individual PSs may not make sense without referring to the original RDA instruction.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">I will also be posting a followup question regarding the transcription of inaccuracies next week, hopefully after we have
had some discussion on the basics.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Best,
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#002060">Michelle Mascaro</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#002060"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Head, Special Collections Metadata<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">University of California, San Diego
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">(</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">858) 534-6759
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">mmascaro@ucsd.edu</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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