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> Since the name of the distributor is encoded in a separate 260 $b from > the name of the publisher, also 260 $b, is there any mechanism built > into BIBFRAME's transformation engine to distribute these into their > respective bf:publishedBy and bf:distributedBy slots? -- Not at present, but thanks for the specific example! We're not crazy about having to build in these types of exceptions, but we also recognize the inevitability. Quick question: When one encounters something like this, is it safe to assume that it was distributed from New York also in 2000? Yours, Kevin On 07/31/2014 05:51 PM, Mark K. Ehlert wrote: > Ford, Kevin <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: > > > e.g. Paris : Gauthier-Villars; Chicago : University of Chicago > Press, 1955. > > Yeah, I knew this would come up pretty quick. > > > There are other hairier variations too. Here's one that brings up an > additional question: > > New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2000. > > From: <http://lccn.loc.gov/99040733> > > Since the name of the distributor is encoded in a separate 260 $b from > the name of the publisher, also 260 $b, is there any mechanism built > into BIBFRAME's transformation engine to distribute these into their > respective bf:publishedBy and bf:distributedBy slots? > > > -- > Mark K. Ehlert Minitex > Coordinator University of Minnesota > Digitization, Cataloging & 15 Andersen Library > Metadata Education (DCME) 222 21st Avenue South > Phone: 612-624-0805 Minneapolis, MN 55455-0439 > <http://www.minitex.umn.edu/> > > "Experience is by industry achieved // And perfected by > the swift course of time." -- Shakespeare, "Two Gentlemen > of Verona," Act I, scene iii >