Wow, Pete, that was worth waiting for! I'm going to have to read it
side-by-side with the original document a couple of times before I begin
to ingest it all, but after a first reading I do think you've hit on
some things that have had me puzzled for a bit. I'll just mention one
particular thing now:
The example in the RDA document of the (blank node) publisher element
with its sub-elements is not, to my mind, the best example for thinking
about the issue of sub-elements in RDA. As you propose, the publisher
element is generally singular, and therefore instances of multiple
locations or other sub-elements will not cause confusion. There are many
other elements (I don't know if element is the right term, but I think
that's what the document uses) that do have sub-elements and can appear
more than once. A good example of this is a person (author, creator,
collaborator). A person can have a name, dates (birth or "flourished"),
affiliation (as with a research institution), titles, roles. And of
course any given description may have more than one person. This is a
situation that I believe does not occur in DC, and therefore may not be
covered in the DCAM. (Then again, I could be totally wrong about that,
in which case please send a correction. ;-))
kc
Pete Johnston wrote:
> Rather belatedly, some (rather detailed, I'm afraid!)
>
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