I think "creator" is ugly librarianspeak as a relationship designator. On the other hand, I don't think a corporate body qualifies for most people's idea of what an "author" can be. I have no particularly logical defense of my suggestion of "corporate author" as an RD, but my gut tells me it is a comfortable concept by which a user can mentally connect a resource to a corporate body in the way we want the user to. I wonder if anyone has proposed it yet as an RD? Maybe I will.
Pete Wilson Vanderbilt University -----Original Message----- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of FOGLER, PATRICIA A GS-11 USAF AETC AUL/LTSC Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 9:04 AM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Relationship designator for corporate creator I have to say that I was going with "creator" myself after reading a few RDA-list comments. But putting it out locally to our bibliographers, it's been voted down in favor of "author". So I guess it's going to vary from one library to another. As much of RDA appears to be doing. //SIGNED// Patricia Fogler Chief, Cataloging Section (AUL/LTSC) Muir S. Fairchild Research Information Center DSN 493-2135 Comm (334) 953-2135 Adam said: >... if the relationship is one of authorship (writing a textual >document) then you should use the designator "author" that is defined for >that specific purpose. I doubt most patrons think of corporate bodies or families as "writing a textual document". People write, not corporate bodies or families. We do our patrons no favours by redefining words to mean what most do not understand them to mean. I don't like "corporate author" any more than do you, so approve of your suggestion to use $ecreator when a corporate body is in 110, perhaps #econtributor when in 710, unless some other relationship applies such as $eissuing body, $ehost institution? It would help to have the category names in the relator lists, if we are to use them in that way. Or perhaps the text of this and other LCPCCPS should be incorporated into RDA? __ __ J. McRee (Mac) Elrod (m...@slc.bc.ca) {__ | / Special Libraries Cataloguing HTTP://www.slc.bc.ca/ ___} |__ \__________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from RDA-L send an e-mail to the following address from the address you are subscribed under to: lists...@listserv.lac-bac.gc.ca In the body of the message: SIGNOFF RDA-L
