Thank you for your comment, Martha. It’s a good point to make regarding transcribed information.
We had another client, offline, who commented about the significance of the 040$b which could also be used to designate the language of cataloging rather than the language of the item being cataloged (008/35-37). In this case, even in the absence of 040$b, it appears that the work can be presumed to be English so ‘[and others]’ would be the default anyway.
-Nate
From: bslwac-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:bslwac-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of martha rice sanders
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Subject: Re: [BSLWAC] Backstage - [et al.] to [and others]
My initial response is that it should be [and others] (English only) for any records edited for the HELIN catalog because this is supplied information, not transcribed information, and the language of the catalog is in English. My 2 cents on a Monday afternoon…
But I have not read RDA “cover-to-cover” so this may be completely wrong.
--Martha
Martha Rice Sanders
Knowledge Management Librarian
HELIN Library Consortium
401-874-4951
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Subject: [BSLWAC] Backstage - [et al.] to [and others]
Currently, we are changing [et al.] (and a very small permutations of this) to [and others] (BSLW Wiki: link). This change happens for all languages. So if a record is in English, it is updated to [and others]; if a record is in German it is updated to [and others].
We are also working on a report that lets you know when we change [et al.] to [and others] and the language code (008[35-37]) is not ‘eng’ (i.e. English).
But we wanted to check with you all about whether it made sense to change [et al.] to the foreign-language equivalent of [and others], based on the 008[35-37] language code.
For example, if 008[35-37] is ‘ger’ (i.e. German), would you want us to change [et al.] to [und andere]? Or we should we continue changing it to [and others]? Please note that this change only happens for clients that have instructed us to do so via RDA 4.1 (online profile).
Thank you for any thoughts you may have on this question.
Nate Cothran | Vice President, Automation Services
Backstage Library Works | Provo, Utah & Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
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