[DCRM-L] Relationship designators

[Elizabeth O'Keefe]

We have been debating what term to use for the person who writes a
manuscript (whether or not he/she is also responsible for the content).
"Scribe" just sounds wrong for anyone in the modern era. 

Liz O'Keefe

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>>> Robert Maxwell <robert_maxwell at byu.edu> 7/24/2012 3:13:37 PM >>>
RDA 18.5.1.3 instructs the cataloger to "record one or more appropriate
terms from the list in Appendix I" but "if none of the terms listed in
Appendix I is appropriate or sufficiently specific, use a term
designating the nature of the relationship as concisely as possible." 

We have interpreted this here to mean we should first go to Appendix I
and use a term from there if one works. If none of them works we then
use the most appropriate term from the MARC list of relators at
http://www.loc.gov/marc/relators/relaterm.html, which includes the
full set of RBMS relator terms. 

Although RDA's wording in 18.5.1.3 does not direct the cataloger to
standard lists (as AACR2 21.0D did) and implies that the cataloger could
just make up terms on the fly if an appropriate term isn't found in the
Appendix, I do not think this is a good idea and always use terms found
in Appendix I or the MARC list.

In RDA records we have been repeating subfield $e to show multiple
relationships. In past pratice BYU catalogers have sometimes repeated
the whole field instead (with a different $e at the end of each
iteration), but I don't think we've been doing this recently. I remember
BSC discussion years ago where it was suggested it could be done either
way.

Bob

Robert L. Maxwell
Special Collections and Ancient Languages Catalog Librarian
Genre/Form Authorities Librarian
6728 Harold B. Lee Library
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
(801)422-5568 

"We should set an example for all the world, rather than confine
ourselves to the course which has been heretofore pursued"--Eliza R.
Snow, 1842.

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Subject: [DCRM-L] Relationship designators

For those of you using RDA for rare materials, what are you doing about
relationship designators? Are you using the RDA appendixes or the RBMS
relator terms?

If RDA, are you piling on multiple |e in the same field when an entity
has more than one relationship?

Deborah J. Leslie  |  Head of Cataloging, Folger Shakespeare Library  |
 djleslie at folger.edu