"Transcribed information in transcribed fields" only? I can't see the point of it either, if it makes the nature of that which you're examining more obscure.....
Hear hear to reviving GMDs! A missed opportunity in RDA was the potential rejigging of GMD into something more user friendly - instead, we end up with just the opposite, it's removal and replacement with a clutter of significantly less user-friendly codified record cloggers (the 330s). The original GMD terms ARE unwieldy. What we've done for years is combine carrier and content in fairly well known terms, such as: DVD video DVD audio DVD-ROM Audio CD Video CD CD-ROM Videocassette Audiocassette Shocking, I know, but I suspect it helps people to figure out what we've got more than the 330s will...... Too late now? Martin Kelleher Electronic Resources/Bibliographic Services Librarian University of Liverpool -----Original Message----- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of J. McRee Elrod Sent: 23 October 2012 01:35 To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Additional work required by RDA Michael Bernhard said: >Has anyone suggested that RDA be revised to provide for a GMD (in >addition to the new 33x fields)? This would be counter to RDA's effort to have only transcribed information in transcribed fields. The same reasoning was behind the abandonment of "[sic]" or supplying missing letters in brackets. I think the reasoning behind no additions was to make it easier to use captured data without change. Use without even standardizing punctuation is allowed. We fail to see what captured data they have in mind. We find ONIX information often not accurate, and more difficult to adapt than to just start from scratch, or cut and paste from PDFs. It was very difficult to get the option of adding missing jurisdictions in 260$a as opposed to a note, but I think that was accepted. Abandoning the GMD is counter to the findings of a survey done by Jean Riddle Weihs, as well contrary to common sense. Granted GMDs could have been improved by making the content/carrier distinction, perhaps even compound GMDs, but with shorter and more patron friendly terms than RDA's 33X. The GMD in conjunction with a more exact SMD worked quite well in our experience. Only systems able to provide understandable icons will escape the inconvenience of the missing GMD. __ __ J. McRee (Mac) Elrod (m...@slc.bc.ca) {__ | / Special Libraries Cataloguing HTTP://www.slc.bc.ca/ ___} |__ \__________________________________________________________
