Daniel,
great, thanks! Somehow I never think to look in chapter six.
The first exception in 6.27.1.3 is indeed just what I needed. So, I can
now safely assume that the personal authors of such museum catalogs
could and should be seen as creators alongside the museum(s).
Thanks also for the advice about the RDA Examples Group. I'll try to
have the example revised.
Heidrun
Daniel wrote:
Hi Heidrun,
The relevant instruction is 6.27.1.3. The first exception "Corporate
bodies as creators" addresses cases where "one or more corporate
bodies and one or more persons or families are collaboratively
responsible for creating a work that falls into one or more of the
categories at 19.2.1.1.1". The instruction now clearly states that the
corporate body has precedence over persons or families when the access
point for the work is constructed. RDA therefore acknowledges that a
corporate body and a person can work together as creators. For that
reason, I agree with you that it is odd that in the example you quote
the persons involved are not listed as creators. This is an issue that
might be worth raising with the RDA Examples Group through your JSC
representative.
LC has also prepared training material on art catalogs available here
(http://www.loc.gov/aba/rda/Refresher_training_dec_2011.html) that you
might find useful to understand how RDA deals with museum catalogs.
Daniel Paradis
Bibliothécaire
Direction du traitement documentaire des collections patrimoniales
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*Objet :* [RDA-L] Creators of museum catalogs
Talking about creators: One thing I find very puzzling is the
treatment of collections in a museum. Maybe I only have these problems
because the German rules for main entry for corporate bodies are
completely different from the Anglo-American tradition. So, perhaps
you can help me here.
Bowman says in his "Essential cataloguing" (which was the very first
book on AACR2 I ever read), p. 100: "What happens if the item falls
under rule 21.1B2 but also appears to have a personal author? The
rules tell us nothing in themselves, but the answer becomes apparent
when you start to look at the examples that follow. From these it
becomes obvious that entry under corporate body, if it applies, takes
precedence over personal authorship. This means that, for example, a
catalogue of a collection in a particular museum, provided that it
emanates from the museum, will be entered under the heading for the
museum even if it has a personal author."
He gives the following example:
Pre-Raphaelite drawings in the British museum / J.A. Gere
Main entry is under the British museum, with an added entry for Gere.
So far, so good. But now when I look at RDA 19.2.1.3, there is a very
similar example under "Works of an administrative nature":
Furniture from British India and Ceylon : a catalogue of the
collections in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Peabody Essex
Museum / Amin Jaffer ; assisted in Salem by Karina Corrigan and with a
contribution by Robin D. Jones ; photographs by Mike Kitcatt, Markham
Sexton and Jeffrey Dykes. --- Salem, Massachusetts : Peabody Essex Museum
The creators are given as:
Victoria and Albert Museum
Peabody Essex Museum
Now, I don't have a problem with the fact that the museums are seen as
creators. But I don't understand why there is no third creator, namely
the personal author Amin Jaffer. Shouldn't this also be a case of
"persons, families, or corporate bodies [being] jointly responsible
for the creation of a work" (19.2.1.1)? I don't see how this case is
any different from others where the creators perform different roles.
My speculation is that perhaps in RDA's system it is simply not
possible for a corporate body and a person to work together as
creators, i.e. that 19.2.1.1 should be read as "*either* more than one
person *or* more than one family *or* more than one corporate body
jointly responsible for the creation of a work". But if this is the
case, then it should have been clearly stated. Also, I really can't
see a reason why it shouldn't be possible to have a collaboration of a
corporate body and a person in the creation of a work.
And there is another question: If Amin Jaffer or J.A. Gere in Bowman's
example are not considered to be creators, then what else could they
be? My feeling is that their contribution is at the level of the work,
and not at expression level. So the only possibility would be to
consider them as "other persons associated with a work" (19.3.1), i.e.
grouping them with "persons, etc., to whom correspondence is
addressed, persons, etc., honoured by a festschrift, directors,
cinematographers, sponsoring bodies, production companies,
institutions, etc., hosting an exhibition or event, etc." This really
doesn't seem suitable at all.
Or should they be seen as contributors (i.e. on expression level)
after all? If so, which relationship designator could be used?
Any ideas?
Heidrun
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Stuttgart Media University
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Wolframstr. 32, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany
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Stuttgart Media University
Faculty of Information and Communication
Wolframstr. 32, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany
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