On Wed, 3 Oct 2012, Stephen Hearn wrote:

> Under the AACR2 approach, using the authority for the ongoing conference 
> to authorized the names of all individual instance effectively imposed 
> the smoothing out of minor name differences

  The important thing to appreciate in this matter is that conference 
planners, organizers and publishers are notoriously haphazard in the 
expression of ongoing conference names *even in the proceedings 
themselves*!

  It's not uncommon for wildly varying, inconsistent, and insubstantial name 
changes to take place like "conference" to "[organization name] 
conference" to "meeting" to [organization's annual] "meeting", but they 
should be referred-to rather than used as excuses for separate name 
authority records (unless there is evidence that such changes are 
consistent].

  Then there is a semantic issue: are we going to consider changes in dates 
and venues of ongoing conferences to be "name differences"?

  IMHO (does anyone remember?), the concepts of "ongoing conferences" and 
single authority records for multiple instances of them were devised to 
save work and interrelate those instances with minor name variations.

Cheers!

jgm

  John G. Marr
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  Univ. of New Mexico
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