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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D">FYI. Important changes to RDA with the July 2013 update.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#1F497D">Steven Arakawa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Moore, Richard<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 10, 2013 9:35 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [RDA-L] BL Guide to RDA Name Authority Records - July 2013 changes<br>
<b>Importance:</b> High<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue">Dear colleagues<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue">Changes to RDA were published this week, to implement the decisions of JSC last November. The<i> BL Guide to RDA Name Authority Records</i> has been
updated to reflect these changes. It can be found here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue">RDA Toolkit<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue">--Workflows
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue">---Global workflows<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue">----BL Guide to RDA Name Authority Records<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue">The updated Guide has been reviewed by colleagues at LC/PCC, who were kind enough to take the time to plough through it and suggest additions and
amendments, which have all been incorporated. The Guide is consistent with the LC-PCC-PS, DCM:Z1 and the Post-RDA Test Guidelines.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue">Sections of the Guide are not numbered (to avoid confusion with RDA instruction numbers), but navigation is by hyperlinks starting at the Contents
page. Links are provided throughout the Guide to the relevant RDA instructions, to the LC-PCC-PS, and to MARC 21.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue">At the end of the Contents page is a section called
<i>2013 Changes to RDA</i>, that summarises the changes affecting name authority records, with links to the more detailed information within the Guide.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue">From our perspective I would like to draw attention to some of the changes that we first proposed (6JSC/BL/3 and 6JSC/BL/4):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue">Title of the Person has a new sub-element “Other Term of Rank, Honour or Office” (9.4.1.9, 9.19.1.6), which includes terms indicating academic office,
terms of respect for clergy, military ranks, and other terms of honour. It can be used to distinguish an authorised access point if dates of birth/death, periods of activity and occupations are not available. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue">Other Designation Associated with the Person (9.6, 9.19.1.2) now includes terms for Persons Named in Sacred Scriptures or Apocryphal Books (9.6.1.6),
the terms Fictitious character, Legendary character, etc. (9.6.1.7), and terms for the type, species or breed of Real Non-human Entities (9.6.1.8).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue">Other Designation Associated with the Person also has a new sub-element “Other Designation” (9.6.1.9, 9.19.1.7). This element is intentionally broad,
and is designed to help remove the few remaining cases where an authorised access point can not be made unique. It therefore encompasses almost any sensible designation, that does not fall within the scope of another element that can be used in an access point.
It can be used to distinguish an authorised access point if dates of birth/death, periods of activity, occupations and other terms of rank, honour or office are not available. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue">Other significant changes are covered in the Guide, notably the combination of the two lists of corporate and government bodies entered subordinately,
which have been combined into a single set of instructions at 11.2.2.13-11.2.2.28 (6JSC/ALA/18).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue">This revision of the Guide also contains a section on our practice for relationship designators in name authority records, which follows the “FAQ
– LC/PCC RDA and AACR2 practice for creating NARs for persons who use pseudonyms” [1], and recommendations by the Task Group to Formulate or Recommend PCC/NACO RDA Policy on Authority Issues [2].<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue">I hope this is useful.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue">Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue">Richard<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Richard Moore
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