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. __ __ J. McRee (Mac) Elrod (m...@slc.bc.ca) {__ | / Special Libraries Cataloguing HTTP://www.slc.bc.ca/ ___} |__ \__________________________________________________________