Greetings, all. In the interim, there is a document recently posted on the JSC website that identifies a number of differences between AACR2 and RDA. Any changes noted here reflect the changes to RDA that were made during and after the JSC meeting in March 2009. The URL is:
http://www.rda-jsc.org/docs/5sec7rev.pdf<http://www.rda-jsc.org/docs/5sec7rev.pdf> Cordially, Marjorie Marjorie E. Bloss, RDA Project Manager 2827 West Gregory Street Chicago, IL 60625 USA 1-773-878-4008 1-773-519-4009 (mobile) ----- Original Message ----- From: Bernhard Eversberg<mailto:e...@biblio.tu-bs.de> To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA<mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:23 AM Subject: Re: [RDA-L] RDA Database withdrawn J. McRee Elrod wrote: > > One difficulty the tool had was that familiar terminology was often > lacking in the RDA text. A recent (flawed on my part?) search for > "anonymous classics", Arabian nights", and "Chicken Little", produced > no results. > The phrase "anonymous classics" as such is indeed not used in the text of 6.2.2.5 (where 25.4 "Works created before 1501" ended up). The word index, however, showed only 3 occurrences under "anonymous", and among these this rule would have turned up. The AACR2 index, matter of fact, neither listed the term as such. But the database, of course, could have been easily - and as a cooperative endeavor - been enriched with all sorts of additional terminology to enhance its usefulness. If only the text were open source. The official online product, OTOH, will be a much better one in more than just this regard. B.Eversberg
