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Comments requested: RSC/LanguagesWG/2023/1 Preferred names and official languages of corporate bodies, governments, and places in RDA

  • 1.  Comments requested: RSC/LanguagesWG/2023/1 Preferred names and official languages of corporate bodies, governments, and places in RDA

    Posted Jul 05, 2023 09:39 AM

    Abstract
    The working group was charged with analyzing the concept of "official language" for corporate
    bodies, and specifically to consider the text in four sections of RDA:
    ● Corporate Body: preferred name of corporate body
    ● Corporate Body: category of corporate body
    ● Corporate Body: category of government
    ● Place: preferred name of place

    http://rda-rsc.org/sites/all/files/RSC-Languages%20WG-2023-1.pdf 

    Please comment here or directly to Bob Maxwell or Adam Schiff, NARDAC reps, asap. Deadline is July 5. (Sorry about the short turnaround, I have been travelling.)



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    University of Missouri
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    sprochia@missouri.edu
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  • 2.  RE: Comments requested: RSC/LanguagesWG/2023/1 Preferred names and official languages of corporate bodies, governments, and places in RDA

    Posted Jul 05, 2023 02:32 PM

    I have not needed to create a religious Preferred name, so I don't have any basis for my comments. Just a note that this seems very confusing without specific examples. I'm also personally concerned about the "choosing a name in a language preferred by an agent who creates the metadata" and similar statements. For example, in Recommendation 3. "Record a value in an official language of a government." could be read as using a term in any official language of any government, instead of it being a term in an official language of the government being described/categorized. Perhaps I'm being too literal. 

    That's as much criticism as I can offer. Hope it helps.



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    Madison Public Library
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