John,
What you say is well thought, and made me realize that I should have been
clearer in saying that I consider Dr. Snoopy to be a form of a name and
not a different name until proven otherwise, particularly given the
presumed character depicted in the illustrations and the name of the
illustrator. Joe Cool presents a different case, of course.
As you say, RDA may need some revision here, as AACR2 certainly did for
some of its "unintended" consequences.
Larry
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New Mexico State University
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On Wed, 27 Apr 2011, John Attig wrote:
On 4/27/2011 11:40 AM, Laurence Creider wrote:
The point of my comment yesterday was that there was no proof
that Dr.
Snoopy was in fact a different "person" from Snoopy. The
existence of a
title means nothing. Sometimes I use my Dr. or Professor,
sometimes I do
not.
As the JSC was reviewing the drafts of the section of RDA that dealt with
multiple identities or personae, it struck me that a literal reading of RDA
would suggest that the simple use of different names (but not different
forms of the same name or changes of name) was sufficient evidence of the
intent to establish a separate bibliographic identity. If that is true,
then Larry's point above is not relevant: you don't need proof that "Dr.
Snoopy" is a different person, you only need evidence of the use of a
distinct name -- and a decision that this is a different name rather than a
different form of the same name (which I suppose one could argue).
