[DCRM-L] Relationship Designators

[Young, Stephen]

Eileen,

I beg that your task group keep in mind the economic realities many of us face: growing backlogs and insufficient staff to keep up with them. We do not need any more requirements above the RDA core. Recommendations about how relationship designators might be used, suggestions for new ones, etc., are fine, but I think they should remain optional and not required. Many of our systems do not yet display them. All the extras are great in an ideal world, but can they be justified when so much remains without minimal access?

Stephen R. Young
Rare Book Team Leader
Catalog and Metadata Services
Sterling Memorial Library
Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520-8240

Tel.: 203-432-8385
Fax: 203-432-7231

Email: stephen.young at yale.edu


From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On Behalf Of Deborah J. Leslie
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 4:43 PM
To: 'DCRM Revision Group List'
Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] Relationship Designators

Eileen,

Are you aware of the discussion we had on this topic on DCRM-L in July?


Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S. | Head of Cataloging, Folger Shakespeare Library | 201 East Capitol St., S.E. | Washington, D.C. 20003
djleslie at folger.edu<mailto:djleslie at folger.edu> | 202.675-0369 | http://www.folger.edu<http://www.folger.edu/>

From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On Behalf Of Dewitya, Eileen Heeran
Sent: Wednesday, 19 September 2012 15:52
To: DCRM Revision Group List
Subject: [DCRM-L] Relationship Designators

Dear Colleagues,

I am writing on behalf of the PCC Relationship Designators Task Group.  The Task Group has been charged to provide a policy statement and guidelines for providing relationship designators in PCC RDA bibliographic records.  While not core in RDA, relationship designators have the potential to add significant value to metadata by expressing relationships among entities, and enhancing a user’s ability to make connections between those entities.

The Task Group consists of catalogers representing the following formats: rare books, cartographic materials, music, audio-visual, and continuing resources; as well as representatives from OCLC, LC, and PoCo.  We are each individually responsible for forming a list of core relationship designators from our respective cataloging communities.  We will then compare the lists and see where the overlap exists.  These terms will then be compared to those in RDA Appendix I.  Our report to the PCC Policy Committee is due October 15, 2012.

We would greatly appreciate your input and feedback on core terms for the rare book cataloging community.

Thank you very much for your time and consideration,

Eileen


Eileen Heeran Dewitya
Asst. Head of Technical Services for Special Collections
CB# 3926 Wilson Library
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890

Phone: 919.962.6901

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