Hello,

I found in LC's Code List for Relators, Term Sequence.

http://www.loc.gov/marc/relators/relaterm.html

Contributor [ctb]
Use for a person or organization one whose work has been contributed to a 
larger work, such as an anthology, serial publication, or other compilation of 
individual works. Do not use if the sole function in relation to a work is as 
author, editor, compiler or translator.

Does this mean if the name / code not in RDA Appendix I, we cannot use it?


Mary Jeanne Yuen
AMES, MIT Libraries


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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

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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

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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

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