Re: [RDA-L] Most appropriate language (RDA 1.4)

2013-03-25 Thread Paul Davey
I'm not quite sure if I'm talking about exactly the same issue, but this is something that is worrying me: (Also, I do apologise to be mentioning a MARC subfield, which I don't think purists like, but it's useful shorthand; also not to give the RDA rule number, but I don't have access to the

Re: [RDA-L] Most appropriate language (RDA 1.4)

2013-03-25 Thread Bernhard Eversberg
Am 25.03.2013 13:30, schrieb Paul Davey: ... I do apologise to be mentioning a MARC subfield, which I don't think purists like, but it's useful shorthand; also not to give the RDA rule number, but I don't have access to the Toolkit, but I'm sure readers will know what I mean) ... no access to

Re: [RDA-L] Most appropriate language (RDA 1.4)

2013-03-25 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
Paul, RDA is actually quite clear on this matter. In this case (unlike the one I was talking about), it's not a complete element which is supplied, but only a part of it. The basic rule for this can also be found in 1.4 (Language and script): When adding data within an element listed above,

Re: [RDA-L] Most appropriate language (RDA 1.4)

2013-03-25 Thread JSC Secretary
Note that RDA 0.11.2 has general information about language and script. Judy Kuhagen JSC Secretary On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Heidrun Wiesenmüller wiesenmuel...@hdm-stuttgart.de wrote: Paul, RDA is actually quite clear on this matter. In this case (unlike the one I was talking

Re: [RDA-L] Most appropriate language (RDA 1.4)

2013-03-25 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Paul Davey asked: If I am creating a 245$c and I want to make use of the option that = allows abbreviation to and twelve others what is the appropriate way of expressing that? [and 12 others], i.e., the language of the catalogue, in contrast to the [by], [par] etc. we used to supply prior to

Re: [RDA-L] Most appropriate language (RDA 1.4)

2013-03-25 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
I'm aware of 0.11.2, but I'm not sure how it relates to the [and twelve others] question. True, under RDA an agency can choose its preferred language, and this doesn't have to be English. So, Paul's library could choose e.g. Finnish as the language of the catalog. But if I read RDA correctly,

[RDA-L] Most appropriate language (RDA 1.4)

2013-03-23 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
In RDA 1.4, we read: When recording an element listed above as a supplied element, record the supplied element in the most appropriate language and script. (The elements listed are those that are normally transcribed more or less exactly in the bibliographic description.) Now I was wondering

Re: [RDA-L] Most appropriate language (RDA 1.4)

2013-03-23 Thread jelrod
On 2013-03-23 05:50, Heidrun Wiesenmüller wrote: In RDA 1.4, we read: When recording an element listed above as a supplied element, record the supplied element in the most appropriate language and script. We interpret that to mean the language of the text, unless romanaization is required