[DCRM-L] Relationship Designators

[Elizabeth O'Keefe]

I'm not understanding why it's necessary to come up with a comprehensive
list of relationship designators for RDA. I thought that RDA was
intended to provide general principles and rules for description,
leaving it to specialized cataloging communities to use RDA as a
baseline for material-specific instructions and terminology.  In a world
of linked data, isn't it sufficent to code the source of the
relationship designator, whether it's the RBMS list of relator terms or
the AAT agent facet used in art cataloging or whatever? 

Liz O'Keefe


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>>> "Young, Stephen" <stephen.young at yale.edu> 9/20/2012 10:38 AM >>>
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
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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