Daniel posted:
>"edited by J. Garland, [of] Cambridge Carbonates UK; J.E. Neilson,
.[of] University of Aberdeen, UK; S.E. Laubach, [of] University of
.Texas at Austin, USA and K.J. Whidden, [of] USGS, USA"
This has the same difficulty presented by "by", "par", etc. introduced
into statements of responsibility before ISBD's "/" replaced them, and
by RDA's "language of the catalogue" inclusions. Such inclusions
create difficulties in multilingual situations.
With the exception of the loss of "[sic]", RDA's tendency to have data
transcribed as found (with the exceptions of punctuation and
capitalization) might be good.
The goal of IFLA's Universal Bibliographic Control (UBC) was that
descriptions created anywhere in the world (preferably in the country
of publication) could be used anywhere. RDA's inclusions represent a
giant step backward from that ideal.
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