Quoting John Attig <jx...@psu.edu>:
Not necessarily true -- just not the Publisher's Name element. It is possible to include a authorized access point for the publisher as a corporate body (RDA 11.13.1) with the relationship "publisher" (RDA 21.3). In RDA -- as in previous cataloging rules -- we try not to mix transcribed data and controlled data in the same element -- but that does not mean that the rules do not make provision for both types of data.
But I've never seen this included in a record other than an occasional rare book record. So the fact is that we are NOT including the publisher entity in our data, except under rare circumstances. And we do not have identifiers for most publisher names, if I am not mistaken.
I agree about not mixing transcribed and controlled data, although there are many fields that do included "controlled" data mixed with text (such as extent). I would like it to be more clear in our records which elements are controlled and which are not. In MARC we have controlled elements in the fixed fields, but we also have controlled elements in the variable fields. To process MARC data you have to know how to pick out the controlled data, and it isn't always clear. The advantage of using identifiers for controlled data is that you know immediately which elements are controlled. Having that be clearer would greatly aid use and re-use of library data.
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