[DCRM-L] Publication (etc.) statements -- BL proposal

[Noble, Richard]

The underlying princple of separating accurate and straightforward
transcription from the allocation of finding data to various elements is
what I've always thought would be the best way of realizing the FRBR
program.

FRBR is bibliography, not cataloging <yards and yards of discussion>. If
we're going to identify manifestations and describe, relate, and make them
findable, we are not without models on our reference shelves: all those
descriptive bibliographies in which consciously distinguished entities (Ms)
are designated using an unambiguous ID system based on the Ws and Es, with
a register of Is from which the evidence has been gathered; and for each M
a direct representation of the evidence is given with annotation as
necessary, all backed up with a really good set of indexes that extract and
order the evidence while tracking and resolving its inherent
inconsistencies.

Cataloging has become an unwieldy mashup of these functions, whereby the
operant extracts information from an item but fudges the presentation of
the evidence, supposedly to make it more useful for finding as well as
identifying, but in the process throwing both functions out of focus. Back
in the day of minimal access to the information needed really to
*identify*the entity and its relationships, this was a perfectly
respectable "best
bet" strategy. FRBR demands more--as bibliography does--but its
implementation by of RDA has largely perpetuated the existing confusion of
bibliographical form and bibliographic function.

That's off the top of my head (if it's even that much
grounded). Anyway, I'm very glad to see Alan Danskin's initial sketch of a
way out of this mess.

RICHARD NOBLE :: RARE MATERIALS CATALOGUER :: JOHN HAY LIBRARY
BROWN UNIVERSITY  ::  PROVIDENCE, R.I. 02912  ::  401-863-1187
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On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Lapka, Francis <francis.lapka at yale.edu>wrote:

>  To kick off the 2014 RDA revision proposal season, I’d like to draw your
> attention to a discussion paper that Alan Danskin, British Library
> representative to the JSC, has kindly shared (in *preliminary* form):
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> http://www.slainte.org.uk/eurig/docs/EURIG2014/2014_EURIG-AM_presentation_Proposals-for-simplification-of-RDA%202.7-2.10_Danskin.pdf
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> The proposal suggests a radical (?) rethinking of how we record
> Publication (etc.) statements. Although I have several small concerns, I
> think the suggested changes would be a move in the right direction.
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> I’d like to hear your thoughts on this new approach. Assuming that the
> discussion paper goes through the standard channels, CC:DA will prepare a
> response to it in late summer. The Powerpoint linked here is just a
> summary; the full proposal will presumably have more details.
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> Best,
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> Francis
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> RBMS/BSC Liaison to CC:DA
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> *Francis Lapka, Catalog Librarian*
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> Yale Center for British Art, Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts
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> 1080 Chapel Street, PO Box 208280, New Haven, CT  06520
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> 203.432.9672    francis.lapka at yale.edu
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