[RDA-L] Warning about authority record numbers and headings - they DO change

2011-04-26 Thread Ian Fairclough
Dear RDA-L readers, Adger Williams said in the discussion of Linked Files: We all do our authority updates by authority record numbers, which (by and large) don't change. Sometimes they do. Cases of name authority records representing first one person, then another of the same name, are

Re: [RDA-L] Warning about authority record numbers and headings - they DO change

2011-04-26 Thread Gary L. Strawn
At 08:13 AM 4/26/2011, Ian Fairclough wrote: Sometimes they do. Cases of name authority records representing first one person, then another of the same name, are recorded. What happens is that the unqualified name heading is created for the first person and that person alone. Then a

Re: [RDA-L] Warning about authority record numbers and headings - they DO change

2011-04-26 Thread Karen Coyle
Quoting Gary L. Strawn mrsm...@northwestern.edu: Something different is seen when an institution accidentally creates a record for an entity already represented by an existing authority record. Sometimes the institution creates identical records one after the other, sometimes the

Re: [RDA-L] Warning about authority record numbers and headings - they DO change

2011-04-26 Thread Mary Mastraccio
: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Karen Coyle Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 10:25 AM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Warning about authority record numbers and headings - they DO change

Re: [RDA-L] Warning about authority record numbers and headings - they DO change

2011-04-26 Thread Adam L. Schiff
] On Behalf Of Karen Coyle Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 10:25 AM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Warning about authority record numbers and headings - they DO change Quoting Gary L. Strawn mrsm...@northwestern.edu: Something different is seen when an institution accidentally

Re: [RDA-L] Warning about authority record numbers and headings - they DO change

2011-04-26 Thread Schupbach, William
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Re: [RDA-L] Warning about authority record numbers and headings - they DO change

2011-04-26 Thread Amanda Xu
Garry, Karen and all: Enforcing standard cataloging policies, practice, NACO training, and certifications in authority control of named entities, subjects, identifiers and links obviously plays an important role in our journey toward data quality control. OCLC, LC, PCC, and other cataloging

Re: [RDA-L] Warning about authority record numbers and headings - they DO change

2011-04-26 Thread Ed Jones
@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Mary Mastraccio Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 10:48 AM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Warning about authority record numbers and headings - they DO change Adam, Thanks for your well-worded explanation. My concern is that the frequency

Re: [RDA-L] Warning about authority record numbers and headings - they DO change

2011-04-26 Thread Amanda Xu
Hi, Mary: Thank you very much for mentioning this issue. If you can come up with a list of reasons why authority records are being deleted, we can add them to record status type, e.g. duplicate heading, etc. It is a controllable issue. Thanks a lot! Amanda On 4/26/2011 11:19 AM, Mary

Re: [RDA-L] Warning about authority record numbers and headings - they DO change

2011-04-26 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
On 4/26/2011 11:03 AM, Gary L. Strawn wrote: Something different is seen when an institution accidentally creates a record for an entity already represented by an existing authority record. Sometimes the institution creates identical records one after the other, sometimes the duplication is

Re: [RDA-L] Warning about authority record numbers and headings - they DO change

2011-04-26 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Karen Coyle Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 10:25 AM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Warning about authority record numbers and headings - they DO change Quoting Gary L