Date:         Mon, 1 Apr 2002 20:32:11 -0500
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Subject:      Re: thoughts on title (fwd)
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Second try on posting this...

-- Robin
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Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 13:27:11 -0500 (EST)
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Subject: Re: [MODS] thoughts on title

Minor additions...

On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Priscilla Caplan wrote:

> Two thoughts about <mods:title>.
>
> First, it seems there should be some standard way of dealing with initial
> (non-filing) articles.  I can think of several alternatives:
>
> 1.a.  Make a content rule:  "Omit initial articles."
> 1.b.  Add a subelement <displayForm> as for <mods:name>, for the full
> displaying form of title.

Given the vociferous rejection of this approach in the DC Libraries
meeting at IFLA, I'd be reluctant to adopt it.
>
> 2.a.  Make a content rule: "Include initial articles."
> 2.b.  Add an attribute for the language of the title, so that applications
> that care can strip initial articles when they have to.

This has the additional drawback of not necessarily being accurate. The
"Das" problem in German, and so on -- sometimes it's an article in the
initial position; sometimes it's not. For that reason, I'd prefer #3
below, although I think I would prefer <non-filing> or some such, as more
generalizable.

>
> 3.  Add a subelement for initial articles.  E.g.
> <title>
> <article>The</article>
> MODS test record example.
> </title>
>
--Robin

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