6JSC/LC/14 Revision to RDA 188.8.131.52 (Recording Dates Associated with Persons), H.1 (B.C. and A.D. Dates), and associated examples to clarify recording date spans
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This proposal seems fine. However, if it is approved, example “Brutus, Marcus Junius, 85?–42 B.C” in 184.108.40.206 will also need to be changed to “Brutus, Marcus Junius, 85 B.C.?–42 B.C.”
Dominique Bourassa, CC:DA, Sept. 6, 2012
If the concern is with the difficulty of making a span of dates machine-actionable, why not separate the span into two elements, a beginning date and ending date, as has been done with date of birth and date of death? Isn't the purpose of separating into elements to make data more machine-actionable? I am not sure of all the implications of what I'm suggesting, however...
[Patricia Dragon 14 Sept. 2012]
The instruction in Appendix H to "Use the abbreviation A.D. only when the dates span both eras" doesn't make sense when applied to dates of birth and death because these are not recorded as spans. It only makes sense when applied to periods of activity.
The examples of access points in RDA that include period of activity dates precede the date(s) with the word "flourished," unless the dates are century dates (220.127.116.11, 18.104.22.168). The examples should have "flourished" before the century dates for consistency.
--John Hostage 12:07, 14 September 2012 (PDT) (AALL)