There is another way of looking at this concern. If this item was in the Library of Congress Catalogue, and someone did a Title search for "Cambridge" or "Texas" - they would retrieve it. I am not convinced they would find it suitable for their purpose or the random selection of other material that had author affiliations transcribed that included the terms.
Without adequate "mark up" the proliferation of content can lead to confusion in retrieval. It is important to look at both ends of the process - data generation and retrieval when making decisions on what is appropriate to include. Keith Keith Trickey Lead Trainer at Sherrington Sanders Liverpool. UK ________________________________ From: J. McRee Elrod <m...@slc.bc.ca> To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Sent: Monday, 11 March 2013, 20:34 Subject: Re: [RDA-L] S-o-R/RDA 2.4.1.4 Ben posted: >"edited by J. Garland, Cambridge Carbonates UK, J.E. Neilson, University of= > Aberdeen, UK, S.E. Laubach, University of Texas at Austin, USA and K.J. Wh= >idden, USGS, USA" Ben, I agree that this is more complicated and harder to read the a statement omitting the affiliations. It might be easier to understand if properly punctuated. A semicolon used without preceding space is not forbidden by ISBD punctuation principles: edited by J. Garland, Cambridge Carbonates UK; J.E. Neilson, University of= Aberdeen, UK; S.E. Laubach, University of Texas at Austin, USA; and K.J. Wh= idden, USGS, USA. A semicolon is substituted for a comma when there are internal commas. _Chicago Manual of Style_ 4th ed. 5.32 & 5.93 (for that semicolon before "and". I would prefer following CMS as opposed to introducing parentheses, although CMS 5.44 and 15.53 might suggest parentheses. Unless parentheses are on the source, semicolons seem less alteration. __ __ J. McRee (Mac) Elrod (m...@slc.bc.ca) {__ | / Special Libraries Cataloguing HTTP://www.slc.bc.ca/ ___} |__ \__________________________________________________________