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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>There are no "laws" about this, as far as I know, but after a lifetime of asking the policy wonks whether it's legitimate to use this or that construction in a heading or a reference, I have concluded that they are absolutely opposed to using strings which are not explicitly presented. So, in general, inferring, decoding, rearranging data is not allowed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>A case where some of this IS allowed is in statements like "John and Mary Snodgrass," where we are allowed to establish "Snodgrass, John" although the exact string "John Snodgrass" does not occur.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Joan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>+++++++++++++++</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Robert Talbott <<a href="mailto:rtalbott@library.berkeley.edu" target="_blank">rtalbott@library.berkeley.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br>On the peice in hand, I hand a vernacular form for the authors full name (Malki'el Tsevi ha-Levi Tenenboim). In LC's on-line database there is a romanized variant usage for which I do not have a vernacular form (Malki'el Tsevi ha-Levi). Malki'el Tsevi ha-Levi is obviously making an encore 4000n appearance in my authority, but is it legal to make a parallel x-ref for the vernacular if I don't have an explicit vernacular form? Or is it permitted to infer/decode/rearrange based on the vernacular on my piece in-hand?<br>_______________________________________________<br>Heb-naco mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Heb-naco@lists.service.ohio-state.edu" target="_blank">Heb-naco@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</a><br><a href="https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/heb-naco" target="_blank">https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/heb-naco</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>