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RDA doesn’t give you an option to use a slash.  See 9.3.1.3 (and 9.19.1.3 which refers you back to there) for how birth and death dates are to be recorded in access points.  There you will find:

 

If the year is uncertain but known to be either one of two years, record the date in the form [year] or [year].

 

The examples in RDA only show two consecutive years, but the instruction itself does not limit to that situation, so I think you would use: $d 1598 or 1600-

 

Adam Schiff

University of Washington Libraries

 

From: Program for Cooperative Cataloging [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ann Heinrichs
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2018 12:38 PM
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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

Head, Original & Special Collections Cataloging

NACO Coordinator

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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Ann Heinrichs

Metadata/Cataloging Librarian | The Paul Bechtold Library

Catholic Theological Union

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Ann Heinrichs

Metadata/Cataloging Librarian | The Paul Bechtold Library

Catholic Theological Union

5401 S. Cornell Ave. | Chicago, IL 60615 | ctu.edu