[DCRM-L] RBMS PS Review Q2.5: Transcription of Inaccuracies

[Mascaro, Michelle]

I am afraid not. Manifestation statements are what the 3R project are calling statements that are literally transcribed from the manifestation (with no mediation or normalization).  My understanding is literal (or basic, as it is sometimes referred to) transcription will be one of the options for recording an element, along with modified transcription, as we are used to under DCRM and current application of RDA.

Kathy Glennan gave a webinar for ALCTS in November on the RDA 3R project that provided a good explanation of this.  It is freely available online for those, who are interested in learning more.  http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/112917

Michelle Mascaro
Head, Special Collections Metadata
University of California, San Diego
(858) 534-6759
mmascaro at ucsd.edu



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"The addition of basic transcription and manifestation statements": And there we are, with the basics of proper entries in a bibliography.* I take a "manifestation statement" to be something on the order of the numbering and heading of a bibliographical entry. This would have the virtue of turning a bibliographical record, which describes a manifestation, into a virtual authority record for the manifestation as basic class (set designation, comprising the individual things assignable to the set) in the quite sensible FRBR classification hierarchy (though I've no idea where that stands these days as the acronyms envelop us, like vines round a charmèd sleeper).

*Conceptually, something like a combination/synthesis of 1XX (if applicable), 240 (required), and 250 (required)? But then again, I'm old enough to be advocating for the use of buggy whips...

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On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:48 PM, Mascaro, Michelle <mmascaro at ucsd.edu<mailto:mmascaro at ucsd.edu>> wrote:
Thank you to all that have chimed in on this issue and your preferences.  I think Richard has neatly summed up the core problem.  I am curious whether the 3R revisions, including the addition of basic transcription and manifestation statements, will provide a possible solution (or compound the problem).  Time will tell.

I plan to post Q3 at the beginning of next week.  Feel free to continue this conversation.

Michelle


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Ultimately we need to make a strict distinction between transcription--as conscious optical character recognition--and data interpretation. We have far too many fields in which we run up against the limitations and confusions of trying to do both things at once. I suppose image matching might be the way forward, since that's what transcription is aiming for, by way of crude intermediate translation; as in the too many cases I've seen, in the latest discussions, of transcriptions that cannot be read unambiguously back to the source.

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