At 01:49 PM 1/12/2006, you wrote:
John Hostage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Revista de
> derecho internacional y del Mercosur
> ---------------------------------------------------
> direito internacional e do Mercosul
And then J. McRee (Mac) Elrod wrote:
245 00 $aRevista de derecho internacional y del Mercosur, direito
internacional e do Mercosul.
246 30 $aRevista de direito internacional e do Mercosul
seem to me to reflect the prime source quite well, as well as give
access. "Revista de" appears on the prime source but once.
Or, to use a punctuation style followed by some publishers:
245 00 $a Revista de derecho internacional y del Mercosur/direito
internacional e do Mercosul ...
246 30 $a Revista de direito internacional e do Mercosul
I don't think this solution is in conflict with ISBD if there are no spaces
on either side. (Which makes me wonder--even if the RDA policy is that
examples do not use ISBD punctuation, does the editor have to make sure
that no RDA example uses punctuation that ostensibly conflicts with ISBD?)
On the other hand, would we need a special rule in RDA Part II if we
needed to construct a uniform title for this situation? The RDA proposed
rule 1.6.6 seems consistent with the principle of representation in 0.1.2
although it might be at odds with citation practice, but is there anything
in the principles of description given there that would allow citation
practice to trump the representation principle? This is a very interesting
example, but I agree that it would be better to describe what is actually
on the source if it can be done without confusion for the user, and let the
access points take care of what the publisher "really wanted to
say." Shouldn't choice & form of entry rules address citation issues
rather than transcription? If someone can come up with an example so
confusing in literally transcribed form that could not be clarified with
cataloger supplied punctuation, I would support changing the rule, since
the interests of the user should be foremost, but I'm not convinced John
Hostage's example is it.
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