Hi Diane, I have one comment for you about your choice of “Preferred title of work” in Scenarios 1 & 2. The titles you have given are:
Bluebeard: a novel Our collective environment: essays in honor of Pauline Warner From my reading of RDA, I believe these titles should simply be: Bluebeard Our collective environment I think the relevant instruction here is 6.2.1.2 (Title proper of the original edition), which states: “If no title of the original language edition is established as being one by which the work is best known, or in case of doubt, choose the title proper of the original edition (see 2.3.1) as the preferred title.” The second part of each of these titles does not seem to me to be part of the title proper, as is defined in instruction 2.3.1.1, but instead are other title information as defined in 2.3.3.1, and thus do not belong in the preferred title of the work record. The texts for these instructions (from the 2005 version of Pt 1, the latest I can find!) are as follows: 2.3.1.1. Definition The title proper is the chief title of a resource (i.e., the title normally used when citing the resource). For purposes of description, the title proper includes any alternative title but excludes parallel titles and other title information (see 2.3.2 and 2.3.3). A file name or data set name is not considered a title proper unless it is the only title appearing in the resource. 2.3.3.1. Definition Other title information is information that appears in conjunction with, and is subordinate to, the title proper of the resource. Other title information may include any phrase appearing in conjunction with a title proper, parallel title, or series title that is indicative of the character, contents, etc., of the resource or the motives for, or occasion of, its production or publication. Other title information includes subtitles, avant-titres, etc., but does not include variations on the title proper (e.g., spine titles, sleeve titles). I would suggest that the second part of the title for Scenario 2, “Essays in honor of Pauline Warner” might be a candidate for a variant title. Nancy Lorimer Diane I. Hillmann wrote:
Folks: As part of the thinking we've been doing about the DCMI-RDA Task Group work, I've developed a couple of cataloger scenarios and added them to the DC-RDA TG wiki: http://www.dublincore.org/dcmirdataskgroup/Scenarios Please feel free to comment and make suggestions for improvement, and also send along some additional scenarios if you feel so moved. I can add them to the wiki, or, if you've put them someplace else, we can link to them. Unfortunately I can't really open the wiki up to more more editors (and truly, it's an old version of MoinMoin and has it's own issues, so you might not want to mess with it). Diane
-- Nancy Lorimer Head, Music Technical Services Stanford Music Library [EMAIL PROTECTED]
