<div dir="ltr">We stopped subdividing 655s in 2014, but it wasn't just in anticipation of linked data. It was also in anticipation of faceted check-boxes appearing in a side-bar (which we are only now about to get, in 2022!) and to avoid duplication of effort: since places and dates appear in standardized form elsewhere in the record. <div><br></div><div>That being said, we still subdivide manuscripts by century, at the request of the Curator of Manuscripts.</div><div><br></div><div>Erin</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><a name="SignatureSanitizer__MailAutoSig"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">______________________<br></span></a><a name="SignatureSanitizer__MailAutoSig"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Erin Blake, PhD | Senior Cataloger | Folger
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<p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 10:12 AM Robert Maxwell <<a href="mailto:robert_maxwell@byu.edu">robert_maxwell@byu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">We still subdivide by country and/or century.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> DCRM-L <<a href="mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu" target="_blank">dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu</a>> <b>On Behalf Of
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 11, 2022 7:56 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> DCRM Revision Group List <<a href="mailto:dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu" target="_blank">dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [DCRM-L] Subdividing Genre Terms<u></u><u></u></p>
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