Hi Karen, My initial impression is that when we see all caps in fields like the 245, 250, 260, 490, it will often be the result of direct transcription of how those data appeared on the resource, or will perhaps be an RDA record created from ONIX data. One of our catalogers has noted the consequence of this for users who import MARC records from our catalog into citation tools like EndNote or RefWorks, and the like, and how those tools will treat the data. It's one thing I have meant to experiment with for records we have identified, because that may influence our policies on capitalization conventions going forward.
Chris Cronin University of Chicago On Jan 11, 2011, at 12:54 PM, "Karen Coyle" <li...@kcoyle.net> wrote: > Thanks, Bernhard. This is very useful. > > I was rather surprised (in my first foray into the data) to see some > titles presented in all upper case: > > 100 1\$aGentry, Paul,$ephotographer. > 245 10$aNEW YORK :$bFROM LAND, SEA, & AIR /$cPRINCIPAL PHOTOGRAPHY BY > PAUL GENTRY. > 260 \\$aNew York, NY :$bMud Puddle Books,$c[2007?], ?©2007 > > 100 1\$aDiSanza, James R. > 245 10$aBUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION :$bPlans, Processes, > and Performance /$cJames R. DiSanza, Nancy J. Legge. > 250 \\$aSECOND EDITION. > > Is this truly RDA compliant? Anyone know? > > kc > > Quoting Bernhard Eversberg <e...@biblio.tu-bs.de>: > >> The official test data as made available by LC last week: >> >> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/RDAtest/rdatestrecords.html >> >> have been imported into a database and can now be browsed and searched: >> >> http://www.biblio.tu-bs.de/db/a30/rdatest.htm >> >> There are about 14.000 records, both bib and authority. (The database is >> much larger. and has all sorts of stuff from various sources.) >> The internal format of this database is not MARC21, but for every >> record, you get the MARC record in addition to a legible display. >> (The other stuff in the database has no MARC data attached.) >> Not all of the vernacular characters are correctly displayed, esp. >> the non-European ones. This setup is not for any production purposes, >> many details might be improved, given more time. >> >> On the initial display, you see a menu in the main panel and the >> "content type" index in the right hand panel. >> From the menu, select "Index by all types" to get the index of >> all types, including the authority data. >> Click the "Menu" tab to get back to the menu, not the browser back >> button! >> (If you are interested: >> Under the "Intern" tab, you see the internal record structure. >> Click the "Edit+" button at the bottom to get a labeled display.) >> >> B.Eversberg >> > > > > -- > Karen Coyle > kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net > ph: 1-510-540-7596 > m: 1-510-435-8234 > skype: kcoylenet
