> It is hard to fathom that role is being considered as part of an
> authority.
-- It's not with the exception of one scenario, which I expect will be
very, very few cases overall: when it is impossible to determine the
role because of poor cataloger entry in existing MARC records. This is
the Bad Data example in the discussion paper. I also anticipate this
will only ever be an issue during a transition phase, meaning that,
moving forward, specific "codes" or links will be used to describe the
relation of an authority entity to a work. I also see the scenario as a
limited accommodation to be made during said transition phase.
If $e says "editor" or "author of," we can associate those lexical
entries with relator codes. If, however, $e says "edtor" or "autor of,"
we cannot necessarily reliably associate those poorly entered lexical
entries with relator codes. This is why it is a limited accommodation
during a transition period. In the future, designating a "role" would
be done in a controlled manner.
I'm not delighted about finding data entry errors in our current
bibliographic data, but I can see that they are a very small percentage
all told. Is a more elaborate solution required for such a small amount
of existing data, especially knowing we can improve on this moving
forward so that we do not have this problem?
Cordially,
Kevin
On 05/24/2013 07:25 PM, J. McRee Elrod wrote:
> It is hard to fathom that role is being considered as part of an
> authority.
>
> The person, family, or corporate body represented by an authority may
> have any number of roles. A person may be author, editor,
> illustrator, translator, depicted, or any other role to the work or
> instance listed in the RDA relator terms or MARC relator codes.
>
> There should be *one* authority per entity, and the relation(s) of
> that entity to the work or instance should be external to that
> authority, perhaps incorporated into the link?
>
> An entity may have more than one relation to a work or instance, e.g.,
> actor/director, author/illustrator. There should not be links to two
> or moore authorities for the same entity because of the two or more
> roles. There should be one access point per entity per work/instance,
> with role(s) expressed externally to the authority.
>
>
>
>
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