I can't help but remember a study that was done here at the UW by an
medical informatics grad student (unpublished I think) that found that the
cognitive load on catalogers was right up there with air traffic
controllers.
And that was under AACR2 still.
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On Mon, 13 Apr 2015, Gary L Strawn wrote:
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> My memory (I have the standard lying around here somewhere but I can't find it just now) is that the ISO standard allows
> for year-month-day dates to be recorded either with or without hyphens, and it's simply NACO practice to omit the hyphens
> unless EDTF is in play. It would certainly be easier on everyone if hyphens were used all the time; then we wouldn't have
> to remember when to use them and when not.
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> Gary L. Strawn, Authorities Librarian, etc. Twitter: GaryLStrawn
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> Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit. BatchCat version: 2008.22.409
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> From: Program for Cooperative Cataloging [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Deborah J. Leslie
> Sent: Monday, April 13, 2015 10:36 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [PCCLIST] Best practices in updating authority records
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> Gary,
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> Thanks for these appropriately curmudgeonly exhortations. I especially commend your advocacy of copy-and-paste, and
> looking at the actual authority instead of acting on a list of search results alone.
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> At the Folger, we have created in Connexion a number of local constant data records for the 3xx fields, focusing on
> recurring individual attributes and clusters of attributes. For example, if I am creating a NAR for a printer, I invoke
> the CD "printer" which inserts appropriate fields. I don't need to remember which field contains gender or language:
> typing ctrl-b and 'male' or 'eng' inserts the fields properly tagged and formatted. It's taken a long time to set up, but
> we believe it will easily pay off.
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> General question about the form of calendar dates in the 046. I do not have direct access to ISO 8601, but everything I
> read about formulating calendar dates--with the exception of LC-PCC PS 9.3.1.3--states that year-month-day is to be
> represented yyyy-mm-dd, that is, with the hyphens (http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards/iso8601.htm); some sources also
> give the alternative as yyyymmdd (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Calendar_dates). If these sources are correct,
> why did LC-PCC choose to require the alternative formulation? It's harder to read, and therefore proofread. By clashing
> with the required yyyy-mm formulation, it's non-intuitive, a cataloger's shibboleth.
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> Can anyone involved with that decision speak to this?
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> Thanks,
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Program for Cooperative Cataloging [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Gary L Strawn
> Sent: Monday, 13 April 2015 09:35
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [PCCLIST] Best practices in updating authority records
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> 2) If you're going to use the 046 field, read the documentation; you aren't free to guess or make something up. Common
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> If you only have a month and a year, a hyphen is required (this does not mean you necessarily have "$2
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> If you have "$2 edtf" then hyphens are *required* between year and month, and month and day
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> The order of date elements is year-month-day. Not year-day-month; not month-day-year; not day-month-year.
> Largest to smallest in scope; it's actually quite simple.
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