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
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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.
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