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RE: ISBD for Manifestation - World-wide Review Introductory Webinar

Posted By Gordon Dunsire Apr 15, 2024 10:03 AM
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Registration for this webinar is now open: The ISBD for Manifestation Task Force has completed a draft of the ISBD for Manifestation (ISBDM) in the form of an online tool, and the review phase which is currently underway will soon arrive at its last step, the Official World-wide Review, planned ...

ISBD for Manifestation - World-wide Review Introductory Webinar

Posted By Gordon Dunsire Mar 20, 2024 04:20 AM
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Apologies for cross-posting. Dear colleagues, As you may know, the ISBD Review Group commissioned the ISBD for Manifestation Task Force in 2019 with the remit to align the ISBD Consolidated edition (2021 update) with the Manifestation entity of the IFLA LRM bibliographic conceptual model. In the ...

RE: Facsimiles vs Reprint

Posted By Gordon Dunsire Jul 11, 2023 09:43 AM
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Ghada The two approaches you mention are incompatible with each other. With official RDA you describe the reproduction as a distinct manifestation and relate it to the item that is reproduced with a "reproduction of item of" element (domain Manifestation, range Item). I think the "copy two" approach ...

RE: Facsimiles vs Reprint

Posted By Gordon Dunsire Jun 30, 2023 11:10 AM
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Ghada These are facsimiles. Differences such as extra title pages and other manifestation statements are ignored in the assessment of reproductions. Manifestation statements in the original are usually reproduced in the facsimile but treated as notes; see Manifestation statements of facsimiles and ...

RE: Technical Reports in RDA

Posted By Gordon Dunsire Jun 15, 2023 10:16 AM
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Colleagues The phrase "technical report" does not appear in the official RDA Toolkit, and "print on demand" only appears in policy statements. The phrase "technical report" only appears in examples in the original Toolkit, and "print on demand" does not appear at all. Whatever, these categories ...

RE: publisher for self-published books

Posted By Gordon Dunsire Sep 15, 2022 05:40 PM
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I think the "correct" RDA treatment for a self-published manifestation is as follows: The agent who is the creator (author, artist, etc.) of the work that is realized and then embodied in the manifestation is the same as the publisher agent (and the creator of the expression, although it rarely useful ...

RE: titles for legal briefs

Posted By Gordon Dunsire Jul 27, 2022 09:33 AM
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I assume the variations reflect different interpretations of 'title proper' and how it appears in the layout of its recording source [used to be source of information]. The general issue is the differentiation and extraction of the components of a 'title statement'. The original Toolkit followed ISBD ...

RE: Instruction in the New Toolkit for when a serial title includes date, name, number, etc.

Posted By Gordon Dunsire Mar 09, 2022 06:10 AM
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Colleagues Some background: The instruction at 2.3.1.4 in the original Toolkit does not make it clear that this applies to the title of the manifestation as a whole, and not a specific part or issue, and there is no cross-reference to 2.3.1.7 which does apply to a part, etc. The concept of "serial ...

RE: Possible to express relationship to Nomen resource using RDA/RDF properties with no range?

Posted By Gordon Dunsire Nov 19, 2021 04:21 AM
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Benjamin and colleagues The Recording methods guidance sets the context: the methods are for recording "the data value of an RDA element". The specific guidance "An unstructured description of an RDA entity is a string that is a kind of Nomen" refers to a string that references an instance of an entity ...

RE: Jurisdiction governed/Jurisdiction governed of

Posted By Gordon Dunsire Oct 11, 2021 05:54 AM
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Adam The short answer is yes. I think it is interesting to look at how these metadata statements can be processed automatically to infer/entail new statements. The statements are: 1. United States is jurisdiction governed of United States. Congress 2. United States. Congress has jurisdiction governed ...

RE: Alternative to record associated institution instead of place for location of conference

Posted By Gordon Dunsire Aug 23, 2021 04:24 AM
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Colleagues RDA does not prescribe any form of construction of an access point for any instance of an entity. There is no universal agreement on access points that can be prescribed, despite the best efforts of IFLA and other international bibliographic metadata organizations. That is why all of the ...

RE: Extension plan for monographic series

Posted By Gordon Dunsire Aug 16, 2021 04:38 AM
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Matt You are correct. The plan for the series may be to re-publish or re-produce existing expressions or to publish or produce new expressions (or both). Each expression realizes one and only one work, and the extension plan for each work is static: the manifestation that embodies each work is intended ...

RE: Jurisdiction governed/Jurisdiction governed of

Posted By Gordon Dunsire Aug 03, 2021 08:56 AM
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Colleagues Adam's examples illustrate why the clear separation of Corporate Body and Place, in the context of 'jurisdiction', is useful: "Department of Parks and Recreation" is not a place, afaik :-) I agree that "place governed" is a better element label than "jurisdiction governed". I would prefer ...

RE: Jurisdiction governed/Jurisdiction governed of

Posted By Gordon Dunsire Aug 02, 2021 10:33 AM
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Steven That's not what I mean. The domain and range of 'jurisdiction governed' is now correct in RDA; the definition needs clarification to remove the ambiguity of work (law) and corporate body (legislature, etc.), after discussion with RDA communities. The current definition includes three RDA entities; ...

RE: Jurisdiction governed/Jurisdiction governed of

Posted By Gordon Dunsire Aug 02, 2021 09:08 AM
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Steven and others A work (law) can be related to a place (jurisdiction) using the high-level element Work: related place of work. The narrower element (element subtype :-) Work: subject place may be more suitable, but I think there is an unresolved issue as to whether a place governed by a law is a ...

RE: Jurisdiction governed/Jurisdiction governed of

Posted By Gordon Dunsire Aug 02, 2021 03:17 AM
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Colleagues This issue was analyzed by the JSC Technical Working Group in 2014. The report to JSC and the responses from constituencies are available at: http://www.rda-rsc.org/6JSC/TechnicalWG/4 As noted, the outcome of JSC discussion was "Accepted in principle. BL, CCC, and DNB will investigate further ...

RE: Geographic coordinates in place name authorities

Posted By Gordon Dunsire Jul 29, 2021 05:00 AM
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Adam The element for recording the coordinates or other boundary or point definition of a place is Place: location The element definition is "A delimitation of the physical territory of a place". As your example shows, there are different values that may be assigned to this element, reflecting the ...

List of soft-deprecated RDA elements

Posted By Gordon Dunsire Feb 26, 2021 05:03 AM
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Colleagues On February 2, 2021 Stephen McDonald suggested in message 31 of the discussion on "Other title information and more in the official Toolkit" that it would be useful to publish a list of RDA elements that have a recommended alternative in the RDA Toolkit. These are "soft-deprecated" legacy ...

RE: Other title information and more in the official Toolkit

Posted By Gordon Dunsire Feb 03, 2021 05:11 AM
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All I like Stephen's 'simpler terms' definition of 'dumb-up'. With some clarification of terminology (i.e. 'classing', 'higher'), I propose: dumbing-up: A process which creates or transforms metadata at a broader level of an element hierarchy and loses detail accommodated at a narrower level. To clarify, ...

RE: Other title information and more in the official Toolkit

Posted By Gordon Dunsire Feb 02, 2021 07:25 AM
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All The term 'dumbing-up' is a neologism introduced around 10 years ago. It is based on the term ' dumb-down' used by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI), itself a specialization of "dumb down". Merriam-Webster defines "dumb down", as "to lower the level of difficulty and the intellectual content ...