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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Adam L Schiff<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 8, 2024 12:27 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> PCCLIST@LISTSERV.LOC.GOV<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [PCCLIST] Polish places beginning with Województwo<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Sounds like there's an even bigger cleanup needed than even I imagined. In the case of Województwo Mazowieckie, the BGN approved name is just Mazowieckie, and we
are supposed to follow BGN. I haven't looked at any of the other places in Geographic Names Server, but it's probably similar there for them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">From:</span></b><span style="color:black"> Robert J. Rendall <<a href="mailto:rr2205@columbia.edu">rr2205@columbia.edu</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 8, 2024 8:25 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Adam L Schiff <<a href="mailto:aschiff@uw.edu">aschiff@uw.edu</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:slavcat@lists.illinois.edu">slavcat@lists.illinois.edu</a> <<a href="mailto:slavcat@lists.illinois.edu">slavcat@lists.illinois.edu</a>>; Program for Cooperative Cataloging <<a href="mailto:PCCLIST@listserv.loc.gov">PCCLIST@listserv.loc.gov</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Polish places beginning with Województwo</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Województwo Mazowieckie and the rest of these are like République française - the second word is an adjective.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The way these województwa/voivodeships have been established in the NAF is very inconsistent; sometimes the whole phrase, sometimes the related noun for either a city or a historic region (in this case that would be Mazowsze, in English
Mazovia), sometimes with the adjective alone (which looks wrong to me).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Robert Rendall</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Cataloging & Metadata Services, Columbia University Libraries</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">102 Butler Library, 535 West 114th Street, New York, NY 10027</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">tel.: 212 851 2449</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 11:03 AM Adam L Schiff <<a href="mailto:slavcat@lists.illinois.edu">slavcat@lists.illinois.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">As a NACO reviewer, I was asked earlier this year to review this new NAR:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">151 Borkowice (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland)</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">LC established the access point <b>
Województwo Mazowieckie (Poland)</b> [n 2001105288] and it was coded as RDA, but I don't think it was correct. I believe that this heading should have been established as
<b>Mazowieckie (Poland)</b>. Województwo<b> </b>is a word for a type of jurisdiction, in English: Voivodeship.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Here's the entry in GNS:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><img border="0" width="981" height="122" style="width:10.2187in;height:1.2708in" id="x_m_5556808022010316662x_x_Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:ii_18f58c78789bd7334ba1"></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><img border="0" width="354" height="294" style="width:3.6875in;height:3.0625in" id="x_m_5556808022010316662x_x_Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:ii_18f58c787899fe1bd132"></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Here's what it says in RDA <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://16.2.2.8__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!klaGF2J35ddPHyrqLsL0nk0EvzR3oMINP2_eM1LWFByGyCAFc9H80yJahc-ddSd1aNHU9StPqxFu_AJ4qw$">
16.2.2.8</a>:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><img border="0" width="1244" height="810" style="width:12.9583in;height:8.4375in" id="x_m_5556808022010316662x_x_Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:ii_18f58c787897c3cbfe63"></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">And in RDA <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://11.13.1.6__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!klaGF2J35ddPHyrqLsL0nk0EvzR3oMINP2_eM1LWFByGyCAFc9H80yJahc-ddSd1aNHU9StPqxEgsKn7kQ$">
11.13.1.6</a>:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><img border="0" width="1240" height="834" style="width:12.9166in;height:8.6875in" id="x_m_5556808022010316662x_x_Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:ii_18f58c7878939ab9b924"></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The GNS approved name is <b>Mazowieckie</b>. There are no other places in Poland in GNS with the same name, so without a conflict, I believe that the AAP for this place should be just
<b>Mazowieckie (Poland)</b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">That means that n 2001105288 should be revised to the correct access point
<b>Mazowieckie (Poland) </b>but it also means that there are numerous other authority records that also must be revised, e.g. Dylewo (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland); Jadwisin (Legionowo, Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland); Jeziory (Województwo Mazowieckie,
Poland); Legionowo (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland); Lipsko (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland : Powiat); Węgrów (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland); and so on. OCLC retrieves 71 geographic authority records that have Województwo Mazowieckie in them.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">When I reported the above issue to PTCP, someone at LC did change the authority record to Mazowieckie (Poland) in February. But they did not change all of the additional place authorities that have (Województwo
Mazowieckie, Poland) as a qualifier. I'm wondering who should be responsible for fixing all of these others? </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">When I search for geographic keyword Województwo in the OCLC authority file, it's apparent that this is an even bigger problem, because I'm also finding headings for:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Województwo Lubuskie (Poland)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Województwo Opolskie (Poland)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Województwo Podkarpackie (Poland)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Województwo Podlaskie (Poland)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Województwo Pomorskie (Poland)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Województwo Śląskie (Poland)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Województwo Świętokrzyskie (Poland)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Województwo Zachodniopomorskie (Poland)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">And, of course, all of the other places in the authority file that use one of these places as a qualifier. It's a lot (650 matches on geographic keyword search for Województwo, plus
any corporate bodies and titles that use any of these places as a qualifier, plus any 3XX fields that have had one of these places recorded as an attribute).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Perhaps the Slavic cataloging community and/or PCC community needs a project to clean these all up?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Adam Schiff</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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