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On Mon, 22 Mar 2010, David W Reser wrote:
> Robert-- I don't think we could require it, but your added thoughts may suggest a few additional words to be added to the effect of you came this far, why not go a little further, e.g., "When PCC catalogers do supply parallel fields for headings in bibliographic records, they are strongly encouraged to replicate this intellectual work as non-Latin variants in authority records as part of NACO-- a simple "cut and paste" will usually make this an efficient process and extend the benefit beyond a single bibliographic record."
>
> OK?
> Dave
>
>>>> Robert Rendall <[log in to unmask]> 3/22/2010 3:25 PM >>>
> The set of changes I made in that document was meant to be limited to
> cosmetic and uncontroversial ones, so it definitely doesn't reflect
> everything we discussed last week!
>
> On your point 4, non-Latin references are not required in authority
> records, and neither are non-Latin headings in bib. records, but could
> we require a cataloger exercising the option to enter a non-Latin
> heading in a bib. record to also add it to the corresponding authority
> record? Maybe not, but I'll just ask.
>
> Robert.
>
> David W Reser wrote:
>> Boy, I picked the wrong Friday to be off! Just catching up with the many messages-- rather than try to respond to each, I'll respond to Robert's revision that was attached to this message and throw in a few additional things.
>>
>> First, I agree with all of Robert's changes.
>>
>> 1. Second paragraph, last sentence refers to "MARC formats" but I think what was meant was MARC record types (formats at this point would mean bibliographic, authority, holdings).
>>
>> 2. Section 2, general guidelines: Please change the link to the ALA-LC romanization tables to:
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>> http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.standards/docs.roman
>> (we assigned a persistent URL to publish in RDA and other places, particularly useful since it is not known how long the "cpso" domain will last).
>>
>> 3. Section 2.3.1: Example for Xun yi cao de chun tian [I think there was an earlier comment to delete the example, to which I would concur-- not really clear what is being illustrated here]
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>> 4. Section 2.5, first paragraph, last sentence. I would agree with strengthening the statement somewhat (It is *strongly* recommended ...), but since non-Latin variants are optional in NACO, you can't really say "should" as some have suggested in other messages.
>>
>> Thanks for all the hard work!
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>>>>> Robert Rendall <[log in to unmask]> 3/22/2010 1:42 PM >>>
>>>>>
>> Attached is a copy of the original Word document (not reflecting any
>> more recent changes Peter has made) with tracked editing changes
>> (spaces, capitalization, punctuation, indenting "not" examples, some
>> wording) to the opening text, the Introduction, and sections 1, 2, 2.1,
>> 2.3, 2.3.1, 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.2.2, 3.2.3, and 3.3.1.
>>
>> Indenting the "not" examples doesn't seem to show up in tracked changes
>> but I think it sets them off better.
>>
>> Robert.
>>
>> Fletcher, Peter wrote:
>>
>>> All, also, please, when you send me (or to the list) a revised, track
>>> changes of the document, name it with your name, for example,
>>> Non-LatinRobertMarch19, or something like that so I can keep track.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> thanks, Peter
>>>
>>>
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