Perhaps, but one should always refer back to the RDA objectives and principles, and FRBR/FRAD user tasks.
At one point in RDA development, the statement of responsibility was not going to be considered a core element. It was added back in as a core element. The core element set’s primary concern is the Identify user task, where resources have to be sufficiently differentiated from each other. The statement of responsibility also has utility in confirming that the resource sought is the one that matches the search criteria. RDA’s principle of representation (RDA 0.4.3.4) says that the data describing a resource should reflect the resource’s representation of itself. I think a highly elliptical statement, with names selected here and there, might violate the principle of representation, as people also match that statement of responsibility as recorded with what is on the resource. And if not all names are to be recorded even in a note, it seems best to accompany the recording of those select names with a brief explanation. It seems easier to just list names in a note, separated by commas, then to have an awkward-looking statement of responsibility filled with gaps and unexplained appearances of some names and not others. Thomas Brenndorfer Guelph Public Library From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Heidrun Wiesenmüller Sent: February-07-13 1:39 PM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc. Thomas Brenndorfer wrote: AACR2 also says “not named in a statement of responsibility” but its application extended to situations when all but the first named in a transcribed statement of responsibility were omitted. Thanks for this information; I didn't know that. Nonetheless, the idea doesn't really appeal to me. In the RAK rules, there is a very basic principle which says that notes are normally used only to give information which is not apparent from the rest of the bibliographic description. I think this is a sound idea. True, if we choose not to transcribe a name in a s-o-r, then this information isn't apparent from the rest of the bibliographic description, so we could give it in a note. But I'd still say it would be better to amend the s-o-r instead of using a note as some sort of "workaround". Heidrun -- --------------------- Prof. Heidrun Wiesenmueller M.A. Stuttgart Media University Faculty of Information and Communication Wolframstr. 32, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany www.hdm-stuttgart.de/bi<http://www.hdm-stuttgart.de/bi>
