It was very useful to be able to see the example you are dealing with-thanks for that.
Based on the t.p. and verso (which Springer makes public), I would say that Giorgio is a contributor (in the RDA sense) at the expression level. When you cannot pick a specific relationship designator, you can invoke the general guidelines on using relationship designators given under I.1. The last paragraph there says: "If the element used to record the relationship (e.g., creator) is considered sufficient for the purposes of the agency creating the data, do not use a relationship designator to indicate the specific nature of the relationship." IOW, the element name is sufficient as the relationship designator. This is very clumsy to explain, so I don't really like this approach; but I suppose it does save us some typing, because when the element name is enough, we do not need to add another designator. In this case, I would say that we have to consider the element term "contributor" sufficient, since it appears that Giorgio contributed to the expression by working on the overall compilation in some way, rather than being one of the creators of the works contained in the compilation. However, while we are in MARC, we do have to add the element term, because our MARC label (700) is not specific enough to indicate the relationship. So I would suggest: =700 1\$aBarbarini, Giorgio,$econtributor. My interpretation. Deborah - - - - - - - - Deborah Fritz TMQ, Inc. <mailto:debo...@marcofquality.com> debo...@marcofquality.com <http://www.marcofquality.com> www.marcofquality.com From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Alison Hitchens Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 9:48 AM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: [RDA-L] relationship designator and "in cooperation with" Hi all We are working on RDA training here and one of the books I chose as an example for creating an RDA record has the following information in the statement of responsibility: / Giuseppe Barbaro, Franck Boccara (Eds) ; in cooperation with Giorgio Barbarini This has resulted in the following authorized access points (the resource is a compilation): =700 1\$aBarbaro, Giuseppe,$eeditor of compilation. =700 1\$aBoccara, Franck$eeditor of compilation. =700 1\$aBarbarini, Giorgio. ???? In this situation do we assume, lacking other information, that Giorgio is also an editor or do we just leave out the $e or is there something else appropriate? I have looked through the foreword and list of contributors but there is no other information about Giorgio's relationship with this resource. (If you have access to Springer e-books and want to take a look at the resource: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-0761-1) Thanks in advance for any advice! Alison Alison Hitchens Cataloguing & Metadata Librarian University of Waterloo Library ahitc...@uwaterloo.ca 519-888-4567 x35980
