Following up on Paige's message, RDA says to "Record a projection of cartographic content if considered important for identification or selection" in 7.26.1.3. Since it doesn't say transcribe, we can expand the acronym.

Susan 

On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 3:14 PM, Paige G. Andrew <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
My personal preference is to expand this acronym to Universal Transverse Mercator projection.

Paige
From: "Jordan Hale" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Question re: projection info in RDA

Hi all,

 

When cataloguing a UTM-projected map, do I follow the principle of “take what you see” or “expand acronyms” in 255 subfield b when the projection statement reads “UTM (Zone 18)”?

 

Thanks,

Jordan

 

Jordan Hale, Original Cataloguer & Reference Specialist
Map & Data Library, University of Toronto
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