[DCRM-L] Capitalization in DCRM(b)

[Randal S. BRANDT]

Also, the gothic letterforms I/J and the eszett ligature have not been
transcribed correctly. See DCRM(B) G4.1 and G2, respectively.

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Margaret F. Nichols <mnr1 at cornell.edu>
wrote:

> Yes, I think you’re right. In AACR2 Appendix A, rule A.4A1 says to
> capitalize other words (besides the first word of a title) “as instructed
> in the rules for the language involved.” In the rules for German, A.40 says
> to capitalize all nouns and words used as nouns. The word “inner” in the
> title doesn’t qualify as any of the types of adjectives that should be
> capitalized according to the rules in A.40B. A.40D1 c) says not to
> capitalize adverbs, and according to my German dictionary “wie” is an
> adverb (although I wouldn’t have thought of it that way); so in short, you
> are doing as the rules say to do.
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> Best,
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> Margaret Nichols
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> *From:* dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] *On
> Behalf Of *Ted P Gemberling
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 15, 2016 2:39 PM
> *To:* DCRM Revision Group List (dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu) <dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu>
> *Subject:* [DCRM-L] Capitalization in DCRM(b)
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> I am cataloging a record that is already coded DCRM(b), so I want to make
> sure I am not destroying good transcription. It is OCLC #33669744 for a 16
> th-century German medical book. Please do not do any editing on the
> record today since I’m still working on it.
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> Here’s a page to get a digitized image of the title page:
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> *http://dfg-viewer.de/show/?tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=3&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=http%3A%2F%2Fdigitale.bibliothek.uni-halle.de%2Foai%2F%3Fverb%3DGetRecord%26metadataPrefix%3Dmets%26identifier%3D994502&tx_dlf%5Bdouble%5D=0&cHash=6166e1cfe3ec01a312f7d582af8da0a8
> <http://dfg-viewer.de/show/?tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=3&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=http%3A%2F%2Fdigitale.bibliothek.uni-halle.de%2Foai%2F%3Fverb%3DGetRecord%26metadataPrefix%3Dmets%26identifier%3D994502&tx_dlf%5Bdouble%5D=0&cHash=6166e1cfe3ec01a312f7d582af8da0a8>*
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> (I’m not sure why that URL is so long. It doesn’t appear to be so at the
> top of the page.)
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> If you look at the bib record, you will notice that the cataloger
> capitalized words as they are capitalized on the title page. So “Jnner” and
> “Wie” are capitalized, though I don’t think that fits modern capitalization
> norms. Looking at DCRM(b), I see rule 0G2 says to follow rules for
> capitalization in AACR2 Appendix A, so that made me think we are still
> using AACR2 rules for capitalization. AACR2 1.1B1 says “Transcribe the
> title exactly as to wording, order, and spelling, but not necessarily as to
> punctuation and capitalization.”
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> For German, I would think that would mean capitalizing nouns but not words
> like “Jnner” or “Wie” within a sentence. Am I right about that?
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> Thanks,
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> Ted P. Gemberling
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> Historical Collections Cataloger
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Randal S. Brandt
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