RDA 4.1

RDA 4.1: 245 field (Title)

Bracketed title information

If the LDR position 06 is not equal to e or the 007 position 00 is not m then certain terms within the 245 $b which are enclosed in square brackets (e.g. announcement, novel, poems, proceedings, program, selections) will be deleted. If there is nothing remaining in the $b, the $b will be deleted:

   original field:
      245   00 $a Seattle Film Festival :$b [program].
 
   updated field:
      245   00 $a Seattle Film Festival.

Parallel titles

If there is an equal sign = preceeding the $b, then the text that follows the equal sign will be copied into a 246 field with indicators of 31. The new 246 will not be added if the exact same 246 field already exists:

   original field:
      245  00 $a International meteorological vocabulary =$b Vocabulaire météorologique international = Mezhdunarodnyi meterologicheskii slovar' = Vocabulario meteorologico internacional.
 
   updated field:
      245  00 $a International meteorological vocabulary =$b Vocabulaire météorologique international = Mezhdunarodnyi meterologicheskii slovar' = Vocabulario meteorologico internacional.
      246  31 $a Vocabulaire météorologique international
      246  31 $a Mezhdunarodnyi meterologicheskii slovar'
      246  31 $a Vocabulario meteorologico internacional

Statement of responsibility

Within the 245 $b, certain terms which come right before the $c will be moved into the $c. This includes the following terms: a novel, dramatised adaptations, novel, research and text, and stories:

   original field:
      245  10 $a Characters From Dickens :$b dramatised adaptations /$c by Barry Campbell
 
   updated field:
      245  10 $a Characters From Dickens /$c dramatised adaptations by Barry Campbell

[et al.] changes to [and others]

Within the statement of responsibility (245 $c), ... [et al.] will be changed to [and others]. This will also be flagged on report R154 in case you would like to add additional contributors to the statement of responsibility:

   original field:
      245  10 $a Second growth /$c Sean Markey ... [et al.].
 
   updated field:
      245  10 $a Second growth /$c Sean Markey [and others].

Flagged records

There are a few rules in RDA that cannot be fully completed through an automated process. For these types of changes, a minor change can be made to the record and then the field is added to a report for review:

• If the statement of responsibility (245 $c) has ellipsis '...' and '[et al.]', then this data is removed and flagged on a report
• Spelling errors in the title field (245) should no longer be marked with '[sic]'. MARS 2.0 will remove [sic] and flag the record on a report so that a cataloger can add any necessary 246 fields
• Other indicators of a mistake within the title may have been marked with '[i.e.]' in the 245 field. As with spelling errors, MARS 2.0 will remove the [i.e.] and flag the record on a report

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