General guidelines on recording relationships between persons, families, and corporate bodies
Contents
29.0 Purpose and scope
29.1 Terminology
29.1.1 Explanation of Key Terms
29.1.2 Person, Family, and Corporate Body
29.1.3 Related Persons, Families, or Corporate Bodies
29.1.4 Access Point
29.1.5 Relationship Designator
29.2 Functional Objectives and Principles
29.3 Core Elements
29.4 Recording Relationships Between Persons, Families, and Corporate Bodies
29.4.1 Identifier for the Related Person, Family, or Corporate Body
29.4.2 Authorized Access Point Representing the Related Person, Family, or Corporate Body
29.5 Relationship Designator
29.5.1 Basic Instructions on Recording Relationship Designators
29.6 Source Consulted
29.6.1 Basic Instructions on Recording Sources Consulted
29.7 Cataloguer’s Note
29.7.1 Basic Instructions on Making Cataloguer’s Notes
29.0 / Scope
29.0.1 / This chapter sets out the functional objectives and principles underlying the guidelines and instructions in chapters 30–32 on recording relationships between persons, families, and corporate bodies, and specifies core elements for recording those relationships.
29.0.2 / The chapter provides general guidelines and instructions on recording relationships between a person, family, or corporate body represented by an authorized access point and/or identifier and related persons, families, and corporate bodies.
29.0.3 / The chapter also provides instructions on recording relationship designators, on citing sources from which relationship information was derived, and on making notes to assist in the use or revision of the relationship data.
29.1 / Terminology
Contents
29.1.1 Explanation of Key Terms
29.1.2 Person, Family, and Corporate Body
29.1.3 Related Persons, Families, or Corporate Bodies
29.1.4 Access Point
29.1.5 Relationship Designator
29.1.1 / Explanation of Key Terms
29.1.1.1 / There are a number of terms used in this chapter and in chapters 30–32 that carry meanings specific to their use in RDA. The meanings of a number of key terms are explained under 29.1.2–29.1.5.
29.1.1.2 / Ø Terms used as data element names in chapters 30–32 are defined at the beginning of the instructions for the specific element. In addition, all terms used in those chapters with a specific technical meaning are defined in the glossary.
29.1.2 / Person, Family, and Corporate Body
29.1.2.1 / The terms person, family, and corporate body are used as follows:
29.1.2.2 / o The term person refers to an individual or to an identity established by an individual (either alone or in collaboration with one or more other individuals).
29.1.2.3 / o The term family refers to two or more persons related by birth, marriage, adoption, civil union, or similar legal status, or who otherwise present themselves as a family.
29.1.2.4 / o The term corporate body refers to an organization or group of persons and/or organizations that is identified by a particular name and that acts, or may act, as a unit.
29.1.3 / Related Person, Family, or Corporate Body
29.1.3.1 / The terms related person, related family, and related corporate body are used as follows:
29.1.3.2 / o The term related person refers to a person who is associated with the person, family, or corporate body represented by an authorized access point and/or identifier (e.g., a collaborator, a member of a family, a founder of a corporate body). Related persons include separate identities established by an individual.
29.1.3.3 / o The term related family refers to a family that is associated with the person, family, or corporate body represented by an authorized access point and/or identifier (e.g., a person’s family, a family that owns the controlling interest in a corporate body).
29.1.3.4 / o The term related corporate body refers to a corporate body that is associated with the person, family, or corporate body represented by an authorized access point and/or identifier (e.g., a musical group to which a person belongs, a subsidiary company). Related corporate bodies include corporate bodies that precede or succeed the body represented by an authorized access point and/or identifier as the result of a change of name.
29.1.4 / Access Point
29.1.4.1 / The terms access point and authorized access point are used as follows:
29.1.4.2 / o The term access point refers to a name, term, code, etc., representing a specific person, family, or corporate body will be found.
29.1.4.3 / o The term authorized access point refers to an access point representing a person, family, or corporate body that is constructed using the preferred name for that person, family, or corporate body.
29.1.5 / Relationship Designator
29.1.5.1 / o The term relationship designator refers to a designator that indicates the nature of the relationship between persons, families, or corporate bodies represented by authorized access points and/or identifiers.
29.2 / Functional Objectives and Principles
29.2.1 / The data recorded to reflect relationships between persons, families, and corporate bodies should enable the user to:
a) find persons, families, or corporate bodies that are related to the person, family, or corporate body represented by the data retrieved in response to the user’s search
b) understand the relationship between two or more persons, families, or corporate bodies.
29.2.2 / To ensure that the data created using RDA meet those functional objectives, the data should reflect all significant bibliographic relationships between persons, families, and corporate bodies represented by authorized access points and/or identifiers.
29.3 / Core Elements
29.3.1 / The recording of relationships between persons, families, and corporate bodies is not required.
29.4 / Recording Relationships Between Persons, Families, and Corporate Bodies
Ø Record the relationship between a person, family, or corporate body and a related person, family, or corporate body using one or more of the conventions described under 29.4.1 (identifier) and/or 29.4.2 (authorized access point), as applicable.
Ø Record an appropriate relationship designator (see 29.5) to indicate the nature of the relationship more specifically than is indicated by the defined scope of the relationship element itself.
Ø For guidelines on using the authorized access point representing a related person, family, or corporate body to generate a see also reference, see appendix E (E.1.3.3).
29.4.1 / Identifier for the Related Person, Family, or Corporate Body
29.4.1.1 / Ø Provide an identifier for the related person, family, or corporate body, formulated according to the instructions given under 9.18 (identifiers for persons), 10.9 (identifiers for families), or 11.11 (identifiers for corporate bodies), as applicable.
Library and Archives Canada control number: 1007F6454
Identifier for Nicholas Blake, alternate identity of C. Day Lewis
Library of Congress control number: n 79065003
Identifier for I.M. Pei, founder of the architectural firm I.M. Pei & Partners
Union List of Artist Names ID: 500114961
Identifier for Medici family, descendants of Lorenzo de' Medici
Library of Congress control number: nr 95008045
Identifier for Newport Jazz Festival, the successor to the American Jazz Festival
29.4.2 / Authorized Access Point Representing the Related Person, Family, or Corporate Body
29.4.2.1 / Ø Provide an authorized access point representing the related person, family, or corporate body, constructed according to the guidelines and instructions given under 9.19.1 (authorized access point representing a person), 10.10.1 (authorized access point representing a family), or 11.12.1 (authorized access point representing a corporate body), as applicable.
Blake, Nicholas, 1904-1972
Authorized access point representing the alternate identity as a myster writer of the poet C. Day Lewis
Pei, I. M., 1917-
Authorized access point representing the founder of the architectural firm I.M. Pei & Partners
Medici (Royal house : Medici, Lorenzo de’, 1449–1492)
Authorized access point representing the descendants of Lorenzo de’ Medici
Newport Jazz Festival
Authorized access point representing the successor to the American Jazz Festival
29.5 / Relationship Designator
Contents
29.5.1 Basic Instructions on Recording Relationship Designators
29.5.1 / Basic Instructions on Recording Relationship Designators
Contents
29.5.1.1 Scope
29.5.1.2 Sources of Information
29.5.1.3 Recording Relationship Designators
29.5.1.1 / Scope
29.5.1.1.1 / o A relationship designator is a designator that indicates the nature of the relationship between persons, families, or corporate bodies represented by authorized access points and/or identifiers.
29.5.1.2 / Sources of Information
29.5.1.2.1 / Ø Take information on the nature of the relationship between persons, families, or corporate bodies from any source.
29.5.1.3 / Recording Relationship Designators
29.5.1.3.1 / Ø Record an appropriate term from the list in appendix K to indicate the nature of the relationship more specifically than is indicated by the defined scope of the relationship element itself.
alternate identity
Relationship designator recorded in conjunction with an identifier for Nicholas Blake, pseudonym of C. Day Lewis
real identity
Relationship designator recorded in conjunction with an identifier for C. Day Lewis
successor
Relationship designator recorded in conjunction with the authorized access point representing Newport Jazz Festival, the successor to the American Jazz Festival
predecessor
Relationship designator recorded in conjunction with the authorized access point representing American Jazz Festival, the predecessor of the Newport Jazz Festival
29.5.1.3.2 / Ø If none of the terms listed in appendix K is appropriate or sufficiently specific, use a term designating the nature of the relationship as concisely as possible.
29.6 / Source Consulted
Contents
29.6.1 Basic Instructions on Recording Sources Consulted
29.6.1 / Basic Instructions on Recording Sources Consulted
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29.6.1.1 Scope
29.6.1.2 Sources of Information
29.6.1.3 Recording Sources Consulted
29.6.1.1 / Scope
29.6.1.1.1 / o A source consulted is a resource used in determining the relationship between persons, families, or corporate bodies.
29.6.1.2 / Sources of Information
29.6.1.2.1 / Ø Take information on sources consulted from any source.
29.6.1.3 / Recording Sources Consulted
29.6.1.3.1 / Ø Cite sources used to determine a relationship, followed by a brief statement of the information found.
Somerville, Wilson. A history of the Department of Anesthesiology, 1942-1997, ©1998: title page (Wake Forest University School of Medicine) page 79 (name changed from Bowman Gray School of Medicine to Wake Forest University School of Medicine in 1997)
Familia de Yan desde 1719 Pagsanjaniaguna, ©2005 page 47: family changed its surname “De La Resurrección” to “Yan” in 1849; lived in Pagsanjan, Philippines)
Wikipedia, viewed December 2, 2007 (Howard Fast; Howard Melvin Fast (11 November 1914, New York City–12 March 2003, Old Greenwich, Connecticut) was a Jewish American novelist and television writer, who wrote also under the pen names E.V. Cunningham and Walter Ericson)
29.7 / Cataloguer’s Note
Contents
29.7.1 Basic Instructions on Making Cataloguer’s Notes
29.7.1 / Basic Instructions on Making Cataloguer’s Notes
Contents
29.7.1.1 Scope
29.7.1.2 Sources of Information
29.7.1.3 Making Cataloguer’s Notes
29.7.0.1 / Scope
29.7.0.1.1 / o A cataloguer’s note is an annotation that might be helpful to those using or revising the relationship data, or creating an authorized access point representing a related person, family, or corporate body.
29.7.1.2 / Sources of Information
29.7.1.2.1 / Ø Take information for use in cataloguer’s notes from any source.
29.7.1.3 / Making Cataloguer’s Notes
29.7.1.3.1 / Ø Make any notes that might be helpful to a cataloguer using or revising the relationship data, or creating an authorized access point for a related person, family, or corporate body.
Pseudonyms of Robert Silverberg not found on published works: Ivor Jorgenson; Walter Drummond; David Osborne
King has written seven novels under the pseudonym Richard Bachman and one short story under the pseudonym John Swithen
Relationship between Count Basie Big Band and Count Basie Orchestra uncertain
Relationship between Robert Shaw Festival Chorus and Robert Shaw Festival Singers unknown
Access point Nationalgalerie (Germany : West) valid for 1949-1991. Resources by and about the museum after the German reunification can be found under the access point: Neue Nationalgalerie (Germany)
Census Office is valid name for U.S. censuses up to and including the twelfth (1900); the thirteenth census (1910) and those subsequent were conducted by the Bureau of the Census
Access point valid for period from 1958 (when est.) to March 23, 1972 (when name changed to Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency); also valid from March 15, 1993 to March 11, 1996, when body resumed earlier name
Access point valid from March 23, 1972 (name changed from Advanced Research projects Agency) to March 15, 1993 when body resumed earlier name, and also valid after March 11, 1996
Do not use Luftwaffe in access points for German air force units prior to 1933; use instead "Germany. Heer. Luftstreitkräfte" to cover the period 1910-1920
Byron Company was established in 1888 in New York City by Joseph Byron, a photographer who had just emigrated from the United Kingdom in that same year. Previously, he had worked for Byron Company, a firm started by his grandfather in Nottingham–on–Trent, England, in 1844. The exact connection between the English and American firms is unknown
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