Date:         Thu, 17 Apr 2003 09:48:39 -0400
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From:         "Rebecca S. Guenther" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      Re: names question
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This is not a holdover from MARC, but is the way you would establish this
name according to Anglo-American Cataloging Rules. It is the controlled
form that would be found in the national name authority file; one could
also include authority="naf" if encoding this way to be more explicit
about this. You could certainly include as you suggest below without the
(Musical group) and consider it an uncontrolled form of name.

Rebecca

On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:

> Looking through the example records, I see this:
>
>      <name type="corporate">
>        <namePart>Roustabouts (Musical group)</namePart>
>        <role>
>          <code>prf</code>
>        </role>
>      </name>
>
> If I understand right including the "(Musical group)" bit is a holdover
> from MARC tradition.  This makes me cringe a bit (musical group is,
> after all, additional metadata about the name; not the name itself),
> and am just wondering if this would work as well?
>
>      <name type="corporate">
>         <namePart>Roustabouts</namePart>
>         <role>
>                 <code>prf</code>
>         </role>
>         <description>Musical group</description>
>      </name>
>
> Bruce
>