[yul-naco] PCC Relationship Designator TG Final Report: Reformatted

[Arakawa, Steven]

Although this applies to bibliographic records, it has a big impact on access points (and I believe our NACO-list includes everyone who has had the initial RDA training). I believe I forwarded this  earlier.  For whatever reason, the PCC  document was distributed as .rtf which only seems to open in WordPad.  I converted it to .docx to make it easier to open in Word.  I also highlighted some noteworthy recommendations/guidelines that struck me, including a number of guidelines that revise the instructions you had in the RDA cataloging classes--see the translation examples both for translation alone and for original/translation language in the same source. Note that the same text published concurrently with another format also falls under the reproduction guidelines (reproduction linking is core); it doesn't just apply to out of print books. It's still open for comment. Unlike the 3xx fields, I'm pretty sure the $e was intended for display in the OPACs, so the text itself needs to be comprehensible. I suggested delaying implementation until we have more relationship designators for creators, which hopefully would include more guidelines about how to apply them (See the process for adding to the list, also in the document, and the creator designations in the tables). I'm also concerned that it would result in fewer access points for co-creator situations. And I was puzzled why the relationship designator wasn't used in author/title 7xxs in the examples; I may have overlooked the rationale.  I don't know what the best practice is for corporate main entry situations. Robert Maxwell uses "author;" I lean toward "publisher," at least for annual reports and the like; an example where the best practice hasn't yet been defined. And "publisher" would not be appropriate for a catalog of the Yale Art Gallery holdings not published by the gallery, even though the Gallery would be the main entry. Is a 7xx for an artist in an exhibition catalog a creator or contributor relationship?

Steven Arakawa
Catalog Librarian for Training & Documentation
Catalog & Metadata Services, SML, Yale University
P.O. Box 208240 New Haven, CT 06520-8240
(203)432-8286 steven.arakawa at yale.edu

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