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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">In 2017, as part of the 3R revision, the RSC identified Fingerprint as a distinct subtype of Identifier for Manifestation. In the current (non-beta) version of
RDA, Fingerprint is mentioned only as an example in the scope of Identifier for Manifestation. See 2.15.1.1:
</span><a href="http://access.rdatoolkit.org/rdachp2_rda2-8423.html"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1155CC">http://access.rdatoolkit.org/rdachp2_rda2-8423.html</span></a><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">The definition as it appears in the beta Toolkit is the same as initially proposed by the RSC. In 2017, the RSC’s Rare Materials Working Group discussed the definition
and (reviewing our notes) I believe we proposed the following: </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:#4472C4">An identifier for manifestation consisting of a sequence of characters from specified locations in an early printed resource, according to an established scheme.</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Our suggestion was partly informed by ISBD and DCRM(B).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">ISBD</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">8.1.5 Fingerprint (Older monographic resources)
</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The fingerprint system was developed from experiments to extract identifying information from older monographic resources. It has been considered as
a substitute for a standard number for older resources. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The fingerprint consists of a number of characters drawn from a number of uniform places in the text of the resource. A definitive formula for fingerprint
has yet to be determined by international agreement. Until such an agreement is made, various forms of fingerprint will be considered acceptable in this area.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Example
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">. — Fingerprint:163704 - b1 A2 ,$en : b2 I2 a,$
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Editorial comment:</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> Fingerprint for: I.V.
Vondels Gysbreght van Aemstel, d'ondergang van zijn stad en zijn ballingschap : trevrspel. — Amsterdam : W. Blaev, 1637. — 4°: A-I4.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">[Footnote]: Fingerprints = Empreintes = Impronte (Paris: Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes, 1984). 2 vol., reproduced at http://edit16.iccu.sbn.it/web_iccu/info/it/Impronta_regole.htm
(viewed 23 Nov. 2009), supplemented by the periodical: Nouvelles des empreintes = Fingerprint newsletter. – No. 1 (1981)- (Paris: Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes, 1981-), reproduced at http://edit16.iccu.sbn.it/web_iccu/info/it/Impronta_notiziario.htm.
P.C.A. Vriesema, “The STCN-fingerprint”, in: Studies in bibliography 39 (1986), p. 93-100; “The STCNfingerprint”, available online at http://www.koninklijkebibliotheek.nl/stcn/vingerafdruken.html (viewed 23 Nov. 2009).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">DCRM(B)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">8B3. Fingerprints</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">If considered important, record the fingerprint derived according to a published standard in area 8 or in a note.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">[1]</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">165204-b1 A2 ade : b2 L we</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">(Comment: Fingerprint constructed according to the rules for The Short-Title Catalogue, Netherlands)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">[1]</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> For further information on this method of identification and
recommended forms of recording it, see <i>Fingerprints = Empreintes = Impronte</i>, supplemented by
<i>Nouvelles des empreintes = Fingerprint Newsletter</i>, or Vriesema, P.C.A. “The STCN Fingerprint.”</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1F497D">Francis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Semilight",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Francis Lapka · Senior Catalogue Librarian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Semilight",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Semilight",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Yale Center for British Art<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Semilight",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">203.432.9672 ·
<a href="mailto:francis.lapka@yale.edu"><span style="color:blue">francis.lapka@yale.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> DCRM-L [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu] <b>On Behalf Of
</b>Gemberling, Ted P<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 10, 2019 6:27 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> DCRM Users' Group <dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [DCRM-L] Fingerprint<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Bob, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I’ve noticed this term “fingerprint” sometimes occurs in German cataloging records. Is that where the concept came from? I have never really identified what it meant there, though it struck me as interesting.
Obviously an English term. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Here’s an example from 2019: OCLC #1085880235 (“Fingerprint nach Ex. der UB Frankfurt.” I’m assuming that means it’s for a digitalized version of a copy at the university library in Frankfurt.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Here’s one from 1971: OCLC #251887176<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Ted Gemberling<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">UAB Lister Hill Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> DCRM-L <<a href="mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu">dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Robert Maxwell<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 10, 2019 4:34 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> DCRM Revision Group List (<a href="mailto:dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu">dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu</a>) <<a href="mailto:dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu">dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [DCRM-L] Fingerprint<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’m part of an ALA group examining and commenting on the beta RDA toolkit. This upcoming version of RDA introduces the concept fingerprint (I don’t believe it’s been there before), with the following definition:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">An identifier for manifestation that consists of a group of characters from specified locations in a manifestation combined with a date of publication or other element.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeta.rdatoolkit.org%2FRDA.Web%2FContent%3FexternalId%3Den-US_ala-4267b9ea-5015-36eb-b56a-c66f4b104f6f%23section_rdaId_c296f014-6db4-4509-9508-2e300c502751&data=02%7C01%7Cfrancis.lapka%40yale.edu%7C5dba08214cfa494da85708d6be03be83%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C636905320633382889&sdata=jptj3qtTlaBpWVLJOvM3xf9Hf4Ffqe2hF3TZDYT4%2Flo%3D&reserved=0">https://beta.rdatoolkit.org/RDA.Web/Content?externalId=en-US_ala-4267b9ea-5015-36eb-b56a-c66f4b104f6f#section_rdaId_c296f014-6db4-4509-9508-2e300c502751</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">First, do you think this is an accurate and adequate definition? Additionally, if you have a chance, I’d be interested if you have any comments on the guidelines (beyond the definition) for fingerprint in the beta version (link above [you
may need to log into your RDA account], but also search ”fingerprint” in the search box to find all mentions of the term in the beta RDA).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bob<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Robert L. Maxwell<br>
Ancient Languages and Special Collections Librarian<br>
6728 Harold B. Lee Library<br>
Brigham Young University<br>
Provo, UT 84602<br>
(801)422-5568</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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