Re: [libdb-develop] FRBR paper uses wrong word?

[Morbus I. <mo...@di...>]

> I also wanted to mention an oddity about the FRBR paper that 
> you refered me to. There is a bizarre blunder in this paper 
> in the (mis-)usage of the word "Equinox".  Apparently the 
> author has confused it with the word "Epoch", i.e.:

Here is the response from the FRBR list:

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Fwd: [libdb-develop] FRBR paper uses wrong word?]
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 11:27:17 -0500
From: Barbara B Tillett <bt...@lo...>
To: <mo...@di...>, <fr...@in...>

Just wanted to point out in cartographic cataloging that the equinox is
expressed as a year that is given following coordinates for celestial
charts, and in Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules one may also add a
statement of the epoch when it differs from the equinox.  The definition
of equinox is indeed the third one listed by your colleague below.
Actually in the Cartographic materials, 2nd edition the definition as
taken from the United States Defense Mapping Agency is:
"One of two points of intersection of the ecliptic and the celestial
equator, occupied by the sun when its declination is 0 degrees."  And
the rules go on to say this is recorded as a year.

There is no confusion with the word epoch.

You may wish to see an example under AACR2 rule 3.3D2.  I can't do
superscripts with this email message...

FRBR has it right (see 4.2.12 where it is defined). - Barbara Tillett

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