[DCRM-L] Title -- Date, name, number, etc., that varies from issue to issue (RDA 2.3.1.4)

[Lapka, Francis]

I'd like your thoughts (see Questions at end) on the following item on the CC:DA agenda:
Proposal: Using the mark of omission in preferred titles (RDA 6.2)<http://alcts.ala.org/ccdablog/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/KPG201404.pdf>

It proposes new guidelines for the title of a Work that would parallel the guidelines in the Exception under RDA 2.3.1.4<http://access.rdatoolkit.org/rdachp2_rda2-3233.html>:

Date, name, number, etc., that varies from issue to issue. If a title of a serial includes a date, name, number, etc., that varies from issue to issue, omit this date, name, number, etc. Use a mark of omission (...) to indicate such an omission.
EXAMPLE
Report on the ... Conference on Development Objectives and Strategy
Source of information reads: Report on the 4th Conference on Development Objectives and Strategy
...


RDA 2.3.1.4 concerns serials only, and use of the mark of omission in this scenario replicates a practice established in AACR2 (12.1B7<http://access.rdatoolkit.org/aacr2chp12_aacr2chp12-605.html>) and DCRMS (1B6.4<https://desktop.loc.gov/template.htm?view=document&doc_action=setdoc&doc_keytype=tocid&doc_key=Infobasedcrms0Dash0Dash0Dash249&hash=PPTOC1B6.4.%20Omission%20of%20dates,%20names,%20numbers,%20etc.>).  The proposed addition to guidelines for the title of a Work (RDA 6.2), however, would be applicable to "a multipart monograph or a serial."  A preliminary comment from a CC:DA constituent suggests that it would be logically consistent to apply the 2.3.1.4 Exception to multipart monographs as well.

Such a change to 2.3.1.4 would treat the scenario differently than it is treated in DCRM(B) 1B4:
1B4. Title proper<https://desktop.loc.gov/template.htm?view=document&doc_action=setdoc&doc_keytype=foliodestination&doc_key=dcrmbTitleSPACEproperSLASHglossary&hash=TitleSPACEproperSLASHglossary> with grammatically inseparable designation   [https://desktop.loc.gov/DocView/ESPDCRMB/img/AACR2%20button] <https://desktop.loc.gov/template.htm?&view=document&doc_action=setdoc&doc_keytype=foliodestination&doc_key=aacr21PERIOD0A3&hash=1PERIOD0A3>
If a publication is in more than one volume and the title proper<https://desktop.loc.gov/template.htm?view=document&doc_action=setdoc&doc_keytype=foliodestination&doc_key=dcrmbTitleSPACEproperSLASHglossary&hash=TitleSPACEproperSLASHglossary> of each volume includes a grammatically inseparable designation such as numbering that is specific to that volume, supply in square brackets after the first designation a hyphen and the final designation, omitting intermediate designations. Do the same for single-volume publications that contain multiple parts.
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QUESTIONS


1.      Do we support the proposal as written (the addition to RDA 6.2)?

2.      Should the Exception in RDA 2.3.1.4 be amended to apply to multipart monographs as well?

3.      Alternatively, should a different Exception be added to 2.3.1.4 to treat multipart monographs. Is there a logical justification for treating monographs differently (employing the 1B4 approach instead of using the mark of omission)?


Thanks,
Francis

CC:DA Liaison






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