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Issue 2552: Publ.dates and dates of revision

Object
RSCDS (Person)
Submitter
Wanda van Taanom (taanom_421)
Assigned to
Viktor Lehmann
Priority
Normal
Disposition
Needs help
Description

In the manual version june 2005 I found in appendix 1 p.118/119 a list with dates for rscds dance books. For 52 items were given the year of first publication and the year the latest version was published. For at least 1 item the date in the database was different. (I did not look at all 52 items) and for a number of other items the database has no date yet, so there the list might help. I do not possess the most up to date version of the manual which also may have an (updated) appendix to compare with dates in the scdd. So perhaps someone else can provide a scan/ info?

Also: quite some time ago I found on the HQ website a list of dates of the last revisions of books (with printed music) Is that also something to add as extra info per book? Now I only could find -under the tab learn - publication updates.

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  • Date  July 14, 2021, 4:23 p.m.
  • User  Wanda van Taanom (taanom_421)

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  • Date  Dec. 18, 2022, 12:17 p.m.
  • User  Viktor Lehmann (tone2tone)

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Before going into correction details, I have a question to the team: shall we put the “latest publication date” to the notes or not? As of now, the ORIGINAL publication date is given for all those RSCDS publications. If so, I would need an update list/source as a lot has changed since 2013 (last manual edition which is my source, see below).

I went through my manual copy of 2013 and the appendix of dance publications. Most pocket books had no publishing date which I could correct. The main “books” were checked up until 47. There were two publications where the dates differed:
(A) St Andrews Collection of Step Dances, Volume 1, The : Entry in DB: 2013. e-manual: 2010. I corrected our entry to 2010 as 2013 is the date of the revised version. (B ) Magazine Dances 2005-2009 : Entry in DB: 2009. e-Manual 2012, I corrected it to 2012 as this is more likely to be correct in the manual.

  • Date  Dec. 18, 2022, 1:10 p.m.
  • User  Murrough Landon (murrough)

For a publication we has subsequent reissues, perhaps with minor revisions, I think its generally best to keep the date of the first version. The extra info can mention that there are revisions.

Occasionally a republication is sufficiently different to warrant a separate publication entry. Then I would put the date of that major reissue on that publication and leave the original.

That may be tuned depending on the amount of work involved. For a huge publication, reissued with additional dances or tunes, the ideal case might be copy everything. But life is short so a note saying the original had dances 1-200 and later edition added 201-220 saves lots of work which might not be worth it.

Other editors may have different opinions.

And opinions might change if the upcoming new website software had a button to copy a publication and all its contents into a new edition entry as a single action… Though even then I think we should no overdo that. The extra note approach has the advantage of keeping the history in one place.