Gary, I agree that your edtf formulation is preferable, and tidier.
 
Regards
Richard
 
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The British Library

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Thank you Richard for pointing out the virtue of not using anything in $d in this case unless needed to avoid a conflict.  But I question the use of the question mark in 046.  The dates themselves aren't questionable-each source appears to be confident in its information.  The question appears to be the choice of one or the other, so in 046 the use of a list within square brackets seems to be indicated.  As someone else pointed out, there's no requirement that this list consist of consecutive years.

 

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Sue

 

I think you could in theory give both dates in repeated 046 fields, as uncertain edtf dates:

 

046 $f 1948? $2 edtf

046 $f 1950? $2 edtf

 

I don't have access to the RDA Toolkit at home, but I think you could, in theory, add the date to the authorised access point as:

 

$d 1948 or 1950 

 

Personally, if the access point was unique, I wouldn't apply the Option to add a birth date to it in this circumstance.

 

Regards

Richard

 

Richard Moore

Authority Control Team Manager

The British Library

 

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From: Program for Cooperative Cataloging on behalf of Sue Wartzok
Sent: Thu 04/10/2012 18:38
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Subject: [PCCLIST] how to handle conflicting info on birth dates

Hello, PCC Experts.

 

We are preparing a NAR for someone for whom we have two books. One book reports the author's birth date as 1948; the other reports it as 1950. We thought that perhaps we should enter two 046 fields, one for each date, and establish the name heading without a date of birth. Is this the correct way to proceed?

 

Thanks,

Sue

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