[DCRM-L] Relationship designators

JOHN C ATTIG jxa16 at psu.edu
Tue Jul 24 13:47:34 MDT 2012


Is there a procedure for communicating these changes to LC for incorporation in the MARC code list? 

John 

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| From: "Ryan Hildebrand" <ryan.hildebrand at austin.utexas.edu>
| To: "DCRM Revision Group List" <dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu>
| Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 3:38:42 PM
| Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] Relationship designators

| Fyi, at the last BSC meeting, expansion of abbreviated relator terms
| was approved. So, comp., ed., ill., and trans. are now officially
| "compiler," "editor," "illustrator," and "translator." These changes
| will be reflected in the next update of the RBMS Controlled
| Vocabularies. -Ryan

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| From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu]
| On Behalf Of Allison Jai O'Dell
| Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 2:11 PM
| To: DCRM Revision Group List
| Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] Relationship designators

| This is exactly what I have done.

| On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Valerie Buck < valerie_buck at byu.edu
| > wrote:
| I've been using both RDA and RBMS relationship designators. But if
| the RBMS designator is abbreviated, I have opted to spell it out.

| Re: subsequent relator terms: is there an online catalog model that
| would have numerous |e in MARC format make sense for indexing? I can
| only think of two approaches -- either treat the entire 7xx field as
| a single phrase for indexing, or treat it as a set of hierarchical
| terms (as in http://beta.freelibrary.org ). In neither case would
| duplicate |e really facilitate collocation.

| Allison

| Allison Jai O'Dell
| Charles Dickens Cataloging Consultant
| Rare Book Department
| The Free Library of Philadelphia
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