Mac,
In the absence of a rule, shouldn't we follow "Chicago Manual of
Style" for sentences? With the exception of a few words and names
(e-Book, ebrary) shouldn't all sentences begin with a capital letter?
But which elements should be seen as "sentences" - all of them? Then we
would also capitalize other title information and statements of
responsibility. I'm not saying this can't be done (publishers do it all
the time). But I think that the laws of design which are in effect on a
title page are different from those of a catalog record. To achieve good
readability there, I think we should use "beginning of sentence
capitalization" only cautiously.
By the way, I'm very much in favour of including the rule to capitalize
the beginning of each ISBD area, as proposed by CCC
http://www.rda-jsc.org/docs/6JSC-CCC-12.pdf
I also heartily agree that the whole structure of appendix A, which
takes English as the "model language" and covers all other languages
only to the degree in which they differ from the model, is
counterproductive for an international application of RDA.
Heidrun
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