<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'"><FONT size=2><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">Hi Bob,<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'"><FONT size=2><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">Under 046 field the guidelines for RDA dates in EDTF would <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 4" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'"><FONT size=2><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">$tEnd period (entity)<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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<DIV style="FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; COLOR: #000; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><B>From: </B>"Robert Talbott" <rtalbott@library.berkeley.edu><BR><B>To: </B>"Hebrew Name Authority Funnel" <heb-naco@lists.service.ohio-state.edu><BR><B>Sent: </B>Thursday, August 2, 2012 12:49:37 PM<BR><B>Subject: </B>[Heb-NACO] $2 edtf in 374<BR><BR>Folks:<BR><BR>Q:<BR><BR>How are we handling Hebrew year dates converted to Gregorian "or" year <BR>dates in fields other than the 046? Specifically, I'm creating a record <BR>for someone who was the "President du Tribunal Rabinique, 5700-5710." <BR>Unfortunately, the specific side of the Gregorian divide is not given <BR>for either of these years, thus 5700-5710 recombobulates to 1939 or <BR>1940-1949 or 1950. Per the DCMZ for 046 (which theoretically should be <BR>applicable for other non-046 fields), dates like this should follow edtf <BR>formatting instead of ISO 8601.<BR><BR>374 President du Tribunal Rabinique $s [1939,1940] $t [1949,1950] $2 edtf<BR><BR>Sadly, the $2 is recognized in the 374 as only applying to the $a <BR>portion of the field.<BR><BR>My questions:<BR><BR>1) Since I cannot include $2 edtf, are edtf-style dates forbidden?<BR><BR>2) If "Yes" is the response to #1, then how should the 1939 or <BR>1940-1949-1950 fiasco be expressed?<BR><BR>Thanks in advance,<BR><BR>Befuddled in Berkeley<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Heb-naco mailing list<BR>Heb-naco@lists.service.ohio-state.edu<BR>https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/heb-naco<BR></DIV><BR></div></body></html>