A question on relationship designators and corporate bodies that perhaps someone with more expertise can explain.
Appendix I, I.2. is divided into 2 sections. I.2.1. Relationship designators for creators and I.2.2. Relationship designators for other persons, families or corporate bodies associated with a work. My understanding has been that the RDs in I.2.1. are used for the creator with the primary relationship to the work, what we used to call main entry. In I.2.1., the definitions usually begin with the phrase "A person, body, or family responsible for ..." Corporate bodies are identified as the primary creator under a limited set of circumstances listed in 19.2.1., not all that different from the AACR2 rules for choice of entry. But not all of the RDs listed in I.2.1. fit into the 19.2.1. criteria. For example, 19.2.1 does not have a category for designers, yet corporate bodies are included in the definitions for architect and designer. I understand that we can have artists as corporate bodies and creators (19.2.1.1.1., category h, e.g. Gilbert and George) but I don't see the extension to architectural firms, choreographers, designers, photographers, or composers. In ordinary discourse, architectural firms are often credited with the design of buildings; it's just that the scope of the rules in 19.2.1. does not allow for such a relationship at the creator level. A photography archive can be responsible for a collection of photographs, but the relationship is administrative (19.2.1.1.1. category a), not the relationship of photographer to work. Can someone explain this? Steven Arakawa Catalog Librarian for Training & Documentation Catalog & Metada Services Sterling Memorial Library. Yale University P.O. Box 208240 New Haven, CT 06520-8240 (203) 432-8286 steven.arak...@yale.edu -----Original Message----- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Bernadette Mary O'Reilly Sent: Monday, August 05, 2013 2:54 PM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Correct use of relationship designators for corporate bodies What about liturgical works? The main entry (i.e., the name in a name-title AAP) is the associated church or denomination, but this is nevertheless categorised as 'other corporate body associated with the work', in which case 'issuing body' is correct. 'issuing body' could also be used as a second relator in 1XX if the entity had multiple roles; and if no creator-relator could be assigned because RDA offered no suitable relator for the entity's creator role (and arguably in the case of conferences it does not), it might by default end up as the only relator. Best wishes, Bernadette ******************* Bernadette O'Reilly Catalogue Support Librarian 01865 2-77134 Bodleian Libraries, Osney One Building Osney Mead Oxford OX2 0EW. ******************* -----Original Message----- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Adam L. Schiff Sent: 02 August 2013 19:42 To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Correct use of relationship designators for corportate bodies Using "issuing body" in a 1XX field would not be a correct use of RDA, since issuing bodies are not defined as creators. The only designator that I see in I.2.2 that can for sure be used with a 1XX access point is "defendant", since RDA allows you to name legal works with a defendant's name. On Fri, 2 Aug 2013, J. McRee Elrod wrote: > Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 11:15:26 -0700 > From: J. McRee Elrod <m...@slc.bc.ca> > Reply-To: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access > <RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA> > To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA > Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Correct use of relationship designators for corportate > bodies > > Cathy Crum asked: > >> I have questions about the correct use of the relationship >> designators, "is= suing body" and "author," especially for corporate bodies. > > We would limit the use of "author" with a corporate body, to resources > entered under the corporate body, i.e., administrative resources about > the body such as annual reports. > > We plan to use "issuing body" for conference names, in the absence of > anything better. > > We assume commercial publishers would not be issuing bodies, but > rather private and government agencies. Often the publisher differs > from the issuing body, e.g., a government publications office may be > the publisher, while an agency is the issuing body. > > > __ __ J. McRee (Mac) Elrod (m...@slc.bc.ca) > {__ | / Special Libraries Cataloguing HTTP://www.slc.bc.ca/ > ___} |__ \__________________________________________________________ > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Adam L. Schiff Principal Cataloger University of Washington Libraries Box 352900 Seattle, WA 98195-2900 (206) 543-8409 (206) 685-8782 fax asch...@u.washington.edu http://faculty.washington.edu/~aschiff ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
