Hi Barbara,
I think it would be dangerous to just use the current name of the corporate
body. Organisations do not evolve smoothly from one name to another - they
split and merge, and split and merge again in different ways. My
inclination is to use the correct publisher/creator names as they were at
the time of publication. However you will need to give your users access to
some sort of name referencing tool. (As a quick solution, I suppose you
could put both the original and current names as creators - DC would allow
this - but it does not solve the full problem and the current name could
change tomorrow - you never know! - our department's name and functions
have changed about 8 times since I started working here.)
Regards, Prue
Prue Deacon
HealthInsite Editorial Team
Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care (Australia)
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Subject: cataloging with DC
DCers,
I am currently cataloging a large collection of maps for our digital
library using Dublin Core. Some of these maps date in the 1800's when the
name authority for creator was United States. War Dept. Corps of Engineers.
This same corporate body has created more recent maps under the current
name authority of United States. Army Corps of Engineers. These more recent
maps are also included in the collection.
Having the goal of bringing all items created by one corporate body under
one heading, our policy for DC_Creator is to use the current name authority
(United States. Army Corps of Engineers) for both older and more recent
maps. However this is warrenting concern for researches who might only
search for creator using the older name (United States. War Dept. Corps of
Engineers). Their search results would equal no hits. If we reversed the
policy to use the older name authority, then researches using the current
name would get no hits. Has anyone else using DC encountered and solved
this
dilemma of bring all items created by one corporate body under one heading
when there has been a change in name authority over time? Without "See"
and See also" references how is this done in DC. I would be grateful for
your input.
Sincerely,
Barbara Kenaston Roos
LSU Digital Library
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