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If you have two equally reliable dates and you need to include the date in the access point, RDA sez to include both, with “or”:

 

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From: Program for Cooperative Cataloging <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Robert Bratton
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2018 2:44 PM
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Subject: Re: [PCCLIST] An edtf question

 

Hi Ann,

 

If the dates are uncertain, you don't have to include a date in the authorized access point (100).

 

If you needed to qualify the name, and you can't think of anything else to use (like an occupation), I would take the date from the source that seems more authoritative.  If neither source is authoritative, I would then flip a coin.

 

Robert

 

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On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 3:37 PM, Ann Heinrichs <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Am not sure which way to go on this one, but regardless, . . .

 

What, then, goes in field 100 $d? The two dates with a slash between them (meaning "or")?

 

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 2:31 PM, Kathy Glennan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

My personal preference is to record two separate 046 fields to represent each possibility, with $v for the source in each. This solution makes it clearer about what you have found. After all, it's not one source stating that there are two possibilities, instead you have two different sources with varying information.

 

Kathy

 

 

Kathy Glennan

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University of Maryland Libraries

 

 

 

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 3:25 PM, Hostage, John <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

It’s one of a set:

046 $f [1598,1600]

 

Sec. 5.3.3 in https://www.loc.gov/standards/datetime/pre-submission.html

 

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From: Program for Cooperative Cataloging [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ann Heinrichs
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2018 15:20
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Subject: [PCCLIST] An edtf question

 

Hello, wise ones -

 

I've been clawing my through the LC's edtf instructions and becoming cross-eyed and cross-brained. I'm making a NAR for a person whose birth year, according to one source, is 1598, and according to another source is 1600. How do I indicate this either/or situation in my 046 field?

 

Thank you!

Ann


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