[DCRM-L] Eliminating an RDA option in DCRM(G) draft: want to allow "i.e." and "[sic]"

[Allison Rich]

Dear Erin:

I heartily approve of these exceptions to the rule but I would like an 
exception with the pagination statements too.
I would like to retain the convention of bracketed paging to reflect 
unnumbered pages.

[sic] and i.e. are vital for my cataloguing work here at the John Carter 
Brown Library.
And I would hate to not be able to use them.

Will there be a forum to weigh on such matters as the implementation of 
RDA gets closer?
Because we would also like to take part in this.

~Allison


> As you may know, the DCRM(G) draft incorporates some boxed "RDA 
> alternatives" in cases where standard RDA convention differs from 
> AACR2 (e.g. "RDA alternative: Use 'diameter' instead of the 
> abbreviation 'diam.'") and there are no rare materials or graphic 
> materials reasons to differ (as suggested by Barbara Tillett and 
> others, and approved in principle by the RBMS Bibliographic Standards 
> Committee, in order for DCRM(G) to be a transitional manual).
>
> In the draft reviewed for the public hearing, we included the RDA 
> alternative "Do not follow inaccuracies with '[sic]' or 'i.e.' and the 
> correction in square brackets. Instead, make a note correcting the 
> inaccuracy (RDA 1.7.9)." HOWEVER, further work has convinced us we DO 
> need "[sic]" and "i.e." in transcriptions, for various reasons, including:
>
> a) "Precise representation" (DCRM III.2.2.) is key for sophisticated 
> special collections users  and "i.e." and "[sic]" provide 
> quality-assurance that the representation is precise
>
> b) Unintentionally incorrect information is not infrequent in graphic 
> materials, which are not "self describing" the way books with title 
> pages are, and such inaccuracies need immediate correction in order to 
> make sense to users. For example, the image at 
> http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.19657 was wrongly titled "Royal 
> Palace, Warsaw" by the news agency that created it; it actually 
> depicts the Kremlin, so its title according to DCRM(G) should be 
> "Royal Palace, Warsaw [i.e. Kremlin Palace, Moscow]"
>
> c) Title and imprint information commonly get pulled out for image 
> databases and picture captioning, so we need a complete package in 
> those areas; moving corrections to the notes splits information that 
> needs to stay assembled for user convenience
>
> Thoughts? Comments?
>
> Many thanks,
>
>    Erin (Chair, DCRM(G) Editorial Team)
>
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>
> Erin C. Blake, Ph.D.  |  Curator of Art & Special Collections  |  
> Folger Shakespeare Library  |  201 E. Capitol St. SE  |  Washington, 
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and inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx"

Allison Rich
Catalogue Librarian
John Carter Brown Library
Providence, Rhode Island
Allison_Rich at brown.edu

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