Weinheimer Jim schrieb:
Bernhard Eversberg wrote:
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ISBD, however, is not a code of cataloging rules.
The introduction says:
"The International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD) is intended to
serve as a principal standard to promote universal bibliographic
control, that is, to make universally and promptly available, in a form that is
internationally acceptable, basic bibliographic data for all
published resources in all countries. The main goal of the ISBD is, and has
been since the beginning, to provide consistency when sharing
bibliographic information."
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I'm trying to understand how ISBD is *not* a code of cataloging rules, or as I prefer to think of it: standards for input of bibliographic information.
Well, I should have said, ISBD is a code for bibliographic description,
or the formal arrangement of bibliographic data elements that describe
a resource.
It has no parts for authority control and access (the A of RDA). In
older terms, it had no business with headings and tracings, but only
with the textual body of a description.
In AACR2, Part I was closely aligned with the ISBDs and was still
meant to be usable for catalog cards.
In RDA, the D stands for Description, but it does not specify the order
and punctuation of elements, recognizing that that can be left to
programming logic and might be done in a 1000 useful ways for all sorts
of contexts instead of just one. Although ISBD should be retained as
the preferred display standard for all cases where it has proved its
usefulness.
B.Eversberg
