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Places are not distinguished for display in attached records #1700

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ahankinson opened this issue Dec 18, 2024 · 0 comments
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Places are not distinguished for display in attached records #1700

ahankinson opened this issue Dec 18, 2024 · 0 comments

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This can be added to the "Place" update project, but putting it here so I don't forget about it.

When attaching a record to a Place authority, the record does not show any qualifying information about that place.

So this person:

https://muscat.rism.info/admin/people/41022026

Was born in "London" (551 $a), and this person:

https://muscat.rism.info/admin/people/7421

Died in "London".

But by looking at the record there's no way of telling that these are two different Londons -- the first in Canada, the second in the UK.

The MARC21 docs say that for the X51 fields, all qualifying information should be added in parentheses and not in subfields.

"$a - Geographic name
Parenthetical qualifying information is not separately subfield coded."

So from the Place authority if we have:

  • Place Name: London
  • Region: Ontario
  • Country: Canada

This should probably be in the MARC record as 551 $aLondon (Ontario, Canada).

BUT, I know this will probably cause all sorts of problems linking the two records, since the value of 551 $a would differ from the Place Name field.

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