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abridgement and abridger agent

  • 1.  abridgement and abridger agent

    Posted May 15, 2023 03:11 AM

    Dear RDA experts,

    I am Kazue Murakami from the National Diet Library, Japan.

    The National Diet Library mainly applies the Nippon (Japanese) Cataloging Rules 2018 edition that is interoperable with the original RDA. So, I study about the RDA too.

    I have a question about elements "abridgement" and "abridger agent" in the RDA.

    The relationship "abridgement" was mentioned as Expression-to-Expression relationship between Expressions of the same Work in the FRBR 5.3.2.

    There are relationship designators "abridgement of (work)" and "abridged as (work)" (J.2.2) in addition to "abridgement of (expression)" and "abridged as (expression)" (J.3.2) in original RDA. It seems that "abridgement" is mentioned as a relationship between Expressions in different Works. On the other hand, "abridger" is a relationship designator not for creator but contributor (I.3.1).

    The official RDA mentions that the element "abridged as expression" is a shortcut for the chain of "work expressed", "abridged as work" and "expression of work" relationships.

    https://access.rdatoolkit.org/en-US_ala-600c97dc-bdcc-3da0-a9c4-8b64c9f12a90/c2bf5678-8573-48f0-ab8e-c3250f17cff6

    Although the element "abridger agent" is mentioned that "an agent who contributes to an expression", not a work.

    https://access.rdatoolkit.org/en-US_ala-426953d1-97fb-3b89-9930-06dce2dce64c

    If "abridgement" is a relationship between Works, it seems that "abridger agent" cannot apply when a work has a relationship "abridgement" because "abridger agent" is the element for a contributor. Then, what kind of element can be applied for an agent who abridged original Work instead of "abridger agent"? What kind of condition can "abridger agent" be applied in?

    Thank you in advance,

    Kazue Murakami



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    MURAKAMI Kazue <kazue-m@ndl.go.jp>

     

    Acquisitions Administration and Bibliographic Control Division,

    Acquisitions and Bibliography Department

    National Diet Library, JAPAN

     

    1-10-1, Nagata-cho, Chiyoda-ku

    Tokyo, 100-8924 Japan

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