Dear
East Asia Library colleagues,
On
behalf of the CTP/CJM Joint Task Force, I would like to share the TF
comments regarding LC’s July 18, 2012 response and the draft Japanese romanization
charts, which the TF derived from several sources and which replaces Appendix G in our June 13, 2012 response.
This summary was included in our email to LC sent on August 17th, 2012:
As
described in the TF comments, our latest recommendations are as follows:
- To include only
minimum revisions in this current cycle of ALA-LC romanization table of
Japanese, other than the alif/apostrophe clarification
- To work together for
the comprehensive review after the initial implementation of RDA settle down
- To defer the switch
from Kenkyusha's New Japanese English Dictionary to our own romanization
charts to the comprehensive review
In
addition, TF and CEAL community are looking forward to hearing from LC
colleagues to clarify various important romanization and word division issues
including the questions in the attached TF response and the ones from the Asian
materials cataloging questions and answers (Appendix I of TF’s June 13, 2012
response) ...
In the same email, we wrote: “TF has been pleased to see the recent progress on the
“Alif” clean-up initiatives by LC ([eastlib] Fwd: Announcing message on
"Implementation of Apostrophes in Japanese Romanized Cataloging" on
August 2nd, 2012) and OCLC ([OCLC-CJK] Conversion of alif and ayn to apostrophe
on August 7th, 2012).”
Please
let me or TF members know if you have any questions or concerns regarding the
TF comments, the draft charts, and TF’s work as a whole.
We thank the CEAL community, LC and OCLC for their support of our work over the
last eight months, and we look forward to the opportunity to continue to work together towards the important goal of further
improving Japanese romanization standards in the near future.
- Keiko
For the CTP/CJM Joint Task Force on
the LC Proposal for Japanese Romanization
Keiko Suzuki, Yale University,
Chair
Rob Britt, University of
Washington
Yoko Kudo, University of
California Riverside
Mieko Mazza, Yale University
Hikaru Nakano, University of
Florida
Shi Deng, University of
California San Diego, ex officio (CTP Chair)
Setsuko Noguchi, CIC,
ex officio (CJM Chair)
