Based on Deborah's information, the key instruction here is from I.1" 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."
Plus what Deborah said in her post "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." Does that mean that in MARC we are allowed to use an element as a relationship designator and use $econtributor? Or does that just mean that in MARC the relationship remains ambiguous? Thanks! Alison Alison Hitchens Cataloguing & Metadata Librarian University of Waterloo Library ahitc...@uwaterloo.ca<mailto:ahitc...@uwaterloo.ca> 519-888-4567 x35980 From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Benjamin A Abrahamse Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 10:56 AM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] relationship designator and "in cooperation with" I don't think "contributor" is defined in RDA appendix I. There is I.3.1 the list titled, "relationship designators for contributors [associated with an expression]" but no actual term "contributor" in that list, or any of the others. Is this something that perhaps is in the JSC relator term pipeline? --Ben Benjamin Abrahamse Cataloging Coordinator Acquisitions, Metadata and Enterprise Systems MIT Libraries 617-253-7137
