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Area 0 (General Rules)

• 0B2.2  Imperfections:  Have one example illustrating an imperfection affecting title.  Perhaps add an example after the final paragraph of a photograph that is obviously physically imperfect (and for which information about a perfect copy is not available).  Such an example would not so directly duplicate 0G6.3 which also helps illustrate descriptions based on imperfect copies.
• 0F2.1  Romanization:  Example of a romanized transcription of nonroman script
• 0G2.2  Example of an all caps title that requires upper to lowercase conversion of i/j, u/v
• 0G3.1  Example of modernized punctuation in transcription, and a second that shows modernizing/omitting punctuation within a Roman numeral.  (And same two examples redone with Alternative rule) see also 0G3.4
• 0G3.3  Example of transcription of words we would normally hyphenate but that appear without hyphens in the source.
• 0G3.4 Example (again) of roman numeral transcribed without internal marks of punctuation (cf. 0G3.1)
• 0G3.5 Examples of ellipsis in source replaced with dash in transcription  (at least one example with ellipsis at beginning, another example with text following the ellipsis)
• 0G3.6  Example with line endings/hyphens normalized in  transcription
• 0G3.7 Example of asterisks (filling in for missing letters) transcribed as asterisks; also example of missing letters considered important (such as author’s name) and supplied in a note.
• 0G4.1  Example of normalizing spacing within words and numbers (showing roman numeral in alternate rule without normalizing)
• 0G4.2  Example of normalizing spacing between words
• 0G5.1  Examples of using marks of omission (e.g., in lengthy publisher statements)
• 0G5.3 Example of information (e.g., edition) not taken from chief source of information
• 0G6.1  Examples of interpolations: word ending in Latin abbreviation; drawing damaged/word interpolated (could use GM’s example even if not verified)
• 0G6.2  Examples of conjectural and indecipherable text.  Could use GM’s example even if not verified.
• 0G6.3 Lacunae in imperfect examples:  Could create from any item.
• 0G6.5  Adjacent elements within a single area (i.e. place/publisher) supplied in brackets; and interpolated place name in separate set of brackets from supplied printer/publisher
• 0G6.6  Adjacent elements in separate areas in separate brackets (e.g., year/statement of extent)
• 0G7.2 Reversed, turned, and approximated letters: replace (or omit?) example of letter transcribed as intended rather than as set.
• 0G8.2 Abbreviations and contractions, supplying expansion to full form in brackets

Area 1 (Title and Statement of Responsibility)

• 1E12. Persons or bodies not explicitly named in statements of responsibility ("Transcribe a statement of responsibility as such even if no person or body is explicitly named in that statement.")

Area 2 (State/Edition)

• single prints with edition statements along the lines of "2nd ed." (as opposed to "edition" meaning print run)

Area 4 (Publication, Distribution, Etc.)

• 4A4. Fictitious or incorrect information where all information is fictitious: have lots where place and publisher are fictitious, but not place, publisher AND date
• 4B3. Supplied modern forms of place names
• 4B5. Supplied larger jurisdictions
• 4B7. Places of publication, distribution, etc., in multipart resources
• 4B9. Fictitious or incorrect places of publication, distribution, etc.
• 4B10.2. If the name of the place has changed over time, supply the name appropriate to the date …
• 4C4.2. If the identification of the publisher, distributor, etc., is based on a device [eliminated b/c printers' devices really aren't found in materials without title pages/colophons]
• 4C7. Names of publishers, distributors, etc., in multipart resources
• 4D2.2. Disguised dates. If the date appears only in a disguised form (e.g., a rebus or chronogram)
• 4D2.3. Very long dates.
• 4D2.4. Fictitious or incorrect dates: need example of obvious typo
• 4D2.5. Julian/Old Style dates.
• 4D2.6. Dates not of the Julian or Gregorian calendar.
• 4D2.7. Multiple adjustments or additions.
• 4D6.3. If the date of copyright or deposit does not represent the probable date of publication,
• 4D6.4. If the material bears both a date of publication, distribution, etc., and a date of copyright or deposit, the latter information may be given in a note, if considered important.
• 4D7. Date of publication, distribution, etc., in multipart resources and collections

   

Area 5 (Physical Description)

Area 6 (Series)

• series with parallel title and/or statement of responsibility
• series with unusual numbering (e.g. letters)

Area 7 (Note)

• Details of physical description that apply to all copies of an state or issue of a print or other published material (7A4.2), such as statement of how many states or types of variant are known to exist.
• Note on script of text (7B2.1 & 7B2.2), along lines of B examples: "Text in romanized Arabic." and " Church Slavic in Cyrillic script"
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• Note on parallel titles appearing on the material that have not been transcribed in the body of the description (7B5.1)