[Dixielandjazz] Lou-Easy-An-I-A & Spelling

[Patrick Cooke]

>Or: Milneburg / Milenberg / Milenburg joys.

No matter how you write it, somebody will tell you it's wrong.
     Pat Cooke


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mattias Hallin" <cmhallin at algonet.se>
To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 7:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Lou-Easy-An-I-A & Spelling


> On 13 Jan 2004 Gerard Bielderman wrote:
>
> > /.../ this makes me think of another "problem", probably only
interesting
> > for discographers:
> > If a title is written incorrectly on a sleeve, should one simply copy it
or
> > does one have to correct it?
> > For instance: I ain't gonna give nobody none of MY or THIS jelly roll.
> > Or: I found a new baby / I'VE found a new baby.
> > Or: Milneburg / Milenberg / Milenburg joys.
> > I think the lead should be: how does the (original) sheet music give it?
>
> It seems to me that this problem is the same one that faces compilers of
bibliographic references, e.g. someone cataloguing books in a library. To
the best of my knowledge the primary rule is to give as TITLE the exact
title as it appears on the work in question, whether it's a book or a record
or a video tape or whatever. The follow-up rule is to complement the TITLE
with a UNIFORM TITLE, i.e. an establish, standardized and controlled form of
the title. This does indeed allow you search for and find all instances of a
particular title, no matter how it was spelled on the label (and
consequentially registered as TITLE).
>
> What source to use for the UNIFORM TITLE is of course another question.
>
> All the best,
>
> /Mattias
>
>
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