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RE: Musical roles in RDA

Posted By Gordon Dunsire Oct 03, 2025 11:04 AM
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Lian and colleagues This approach raises several important issues. I think there are logical reasons why acts and scenes in a play should be considered part of the work, but characters or roles should not. We should be clear about what "characters and roles" refers to. A part of a work is a work ...

RE: Musical roles in RDA

Posted By Gordon Dunsire Jul 08, 2025 07:39 AM
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Colleagues Some wider context to Keith's good advice may help. RDA provides the Community Resources section of RDA Toolkit to accommodate the requirements for finer element granularity in RDA communities. If a community develops a set of refinements to existing RDA elements, it can be published in ...

RE: Double-sided poster

Posted By Gordon Dunsire Jun 13, 2025 05:03 AM
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Marie-Chantal 'Sheet' refers to the carrier type. Official Toolkit tries to use terminology as consistently as possible. A sheet is an unbound leaf. The definition of 'leaf' gives more information: 'A unit of extent that consists of a single bound or fastened sheet as a subunit of a volume; each ...

RE: Facsimile Bound-with titles - best cataloguing process?

Posted By Gordon Dunsire Apr 07, 2025 07:10 AM
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Hi Louise In terms of official RDA, the meaning of "bound-with" is now restricted to the context of a collection. I think the best approach for each of your volumes is to use the "facsimile part" elements. Each of the facsimiles is made a "discrete component" of the volume because it is embodied ...

RE: Manifestation statements for reproductions: advice sought

Posted By Gordon Dunsire Jun 12, 2024 09:52 AM
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RDA manifestation statement elements are an implementation of LRM-E4-A4 "Manifestation statement". The LRM attribute was not present in the FR family of conceptual models; it did not appear in the original RDA, and therefore only appears in official RDA. Official RDA essentially says: If the manifestation ...

RE: Manifestation statements for reproductions: advice sought

Posted By Gordon Dunsire Jun 05, 2024 09:51 AM
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Melissa, Kate The conditions are immediately preceded by the guidance: "A statement that relates to the original manifestation is not treated as a statement of the reproduction manifestation." If we refer to a statement that relates to the original as "original statement", it is only treated as ...

ISBDM World-wide Review starts now!

Posted By Gordon Dunsire May 16, 2024 03:49 AM
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With apologies for cross-posting. Dear colleagues, The ISBD Review Group commissioned a Task Force in 2019 with the remit to align the ISBD Consolidated edition with the Manifestation entity of the IFLA LRM bibliographic conceptual model. A draft of the ISBD for Manifestation (ISBDM) is now ...

RE: ISBD for Manifestation - World-wide Review Introductory Webinar

Posted By Gordon Dunsire Apr 15, 2024 10:03 AM
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Registration for this webinar is now open: The ISBD for Manifestation Task Force has completed a draft of the ISBD for Manifestation (ISBDM) in the form of an online tool, and the review phase which is currently underway will soon arrive at its last step, the Official World-wide Review, planned ...

ISBD for Manifestation - World-wide Review Introductory Webinar

Posted By Gordon Dunsire Mar 20, 2024 04:20 AM
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Apologies for cross-posting. Dear colleagues, As you may know, the ISBD Review Group commissioned the ISBD for Manifestation Task Force in 2019 with the remit to align the ISBD Consolidated edition (2021 update) with the Manifestation entity of the IFLA LRM bibliographic conceptual model. In the ...

RE: Facsimiles vs Reprint

Posted By Gordon Dunsire Jul 11, 2023 09:43 AM
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Ghada The two approaches you mention are incompatible with each other. With official RDA you describe the reproduction as a distinct manifestation and relate it to the item that is reproduced with a "reproduction of item of" element (domain Manifestation, range Item). I think the "copy two" approach ...

RE: Facsimiles vs Reprint

Posted By Gordon Dunsire Jun 30, 2023 11:10 AM
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Ghada These are facsimiles. Differences such as extra title pages and other manifestation statements are ignored in the assessment of reproductions. Manifestation statements in the original are usually reproduced in the facsimile but treated as notes; see Manifestation statements of facsimiles and ...

RE: Technical Reports in RDA

Posted By Gordon Dunsire Jun 15, 2023 10:16 AM
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Colleagues The phrase "technical report" does not appear in the official RDA Toolkit, and "print on demand" only appears in policy statements. The phrase "technical report" only appears in examples in the original Toolkit, and "print on demand" does not appear at all. Whatever, these categories ...

RE: publisher for self-published books

Posted By Gordon Dunsire Sep 15, 2022 05:40 PM
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I think the "correct" RDA treatment for a self-published manifestation is as follows: The agent who is the creator (author, artist, etc.) of the work that is realized and then embodied in the manifestation is the same as the publisher agent (and the creator of the expression, although it rarely useful ...

RE: titles for legal briefs

Posted By Gordon Dunsire Jul 27, 2022 09:33 AM
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I assume the variations reflect different interpretations of 'title proper' and how it appears in the layout of its recording source [used to be source of information]. The general issue is the differentiation and extraction of the components of a 'title statement'. The original Toolkit followed ISBD ...

RE: Instruction in the New Toolkit for when a serial title includes date, name, number, etc.

Posted By Gordon Dunsire Mar 09, 2022 06:10 AM
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Colleagues Some background: The instruction at 2.3.1.4 in the original Toolkit does not make it clear that this applies to the title of the manifestation as a whole, and not a specific part or issue, and there is no cross-reference to 2.3.1.7 which does apply to a part, etc. The concept of "serial ...

RE: Possible to express relationship to Nomen resource using RDA/RDF properties with no range?

Posted By Gordon Dunsire Nov 19, 2021 04:21 AM
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Benjamin and colleagues The Recording methods guidance sets the context: the methods are for recording "the data value of an RDA element". The specific guidance "An unstructured description of an RDA entity is a string that is a kind of Nomen" refers to a string that references an instance of an entity ...

RE: Jurisdiction governed/Jurisdiction governed of

Posted By Gordon Dunsire Oct 11, 2021 05:54 AM
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Adam The short answer is yes. I think it is interesting to look at how these metadata statements can be processed automatically to infer/entail new statements. The statements are: 1. United States is jurisdiction governed of United States. Congress 2. United States. Congress has jurisdiction governed ...

RE: Alternative to record associated institution instead of place for location of conference

Posted By Gordon Dunsire Aug 23, 2021 04:24 AM
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Colleagues RDA does not prescribe any form of construction of an access point for any instance of an entity. There is no universal agreement on access points that can be prescribed, despite the best efforts of IFLA and other international bibliographic metadata organizations. That is why all of the ...

RE: Extension plan for monographic series

Posted By Gordon Dunsire Aug 16, 2021 04:38 AM
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Matt You are correct. The plan for the series may be to re-publish or re-produce existing expressions or to publish or produce new expressions (or both). Each expression realizes one and only one work, and the extension plan for each work is static: the manifestation that embodies each work is intended ...

RE: Jurisdiction governed/Jurisdiction governed of

Posted By Gordon Dunsire Aug 03, 2021 08:56 AM
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Colleagues Adam's examples illustrate why the clear separation of Corporate Body and Place, in the context of 'jurisdiction', is useful: "Department of Parks and Recreation" is not a place, afaik :-) I agree that "place governed" is a better element label than "jurisdiction governed". I would prefer ...