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[ARSCLIST] Fw: Cataloging question--IASA in particular
Hi, all,
Since I get the ARSCLIST as a digest, I hope this hasn't already been
answered many times over, but here are my 2 cents:
OCLC has helpful documentation on this: Cataloging Electronic Resources:
OCLC-MARC Coding Guidelines
http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/worldcat/cataloging/electronicresources/
For digital audio that doesn't have a physical carrier, you would put the
MARC code for sound recording (i or j) in MARC Leader/06 (OCLC Fixed Field
"Type") but include an 006 for computer files. But for the GMD, the
electronic aspect takes precedence, so you'd use "electronic resource."
Re. SMDs and physical description, AACR2 chap. 9 for electronic resources,
rule 9.5B3 might help. This rule applies to remote electronic resources
(like a digital audio file with no physical carrier):
9.5B3.
Optionally, record the extent of an electronic resource that is available
only by remote access. Use an appropriate term preferably taken from subrule
.5B of one of the chapters of part I or a term in common usage. See also
9.5C3.
1 photograph
6 remote-sensing images
1 sound file
Web site
1 electronic text
For additional info, rule 9.5C3 is useful:
9.5C3.
When recording the extent of an electronic resource that is available only
by remote access, give other details about the resource (e.g., file types)
if readily available and considered to be important.
1 photograph : digital, TIFF file
69 p. : digital, PDF file
3 sound files : digital, mp3 file
1 electronic text : HTML file
If such characteristics cannot be given succinctly, give them in a note (see
9.7B10).
I checked the LC Prints and Photographs Division site for info about
born-digital images. If you followed Graphic Materials: Rules for Describing
Original Items and Historical Collections, available online
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/gm/graphmat.html, you would use "graphic."
Here's an example: http://tinyurl.com/yk48no
Concerning GMDs in RDA, there's a FAQ on RDA
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/rdafaq.html#4-7 , and here's what it
says about GMDs and SMDs:
There is a group looking specifically at the types of content and carriers
covered in RDA. Information about type and form of content and type and form
of carrier will still be recorded, but the terms used will likely change.
Aspects of the resource being described that relate to the type of content,
such as cartographic, textual, or numeric will be declared or recorded
separately from aspects relating to the type of carrier (microform,
electronic resource, etc.). There will still be the possibility to give
users an "early warning" regarding the type (content type, carrier type, or
mixture) of material described in the record, but that will be determined in
relation to the display or presentation of the data rather than the
recording of the data.
The SMDs will likely continue to be a mixture of established terms and
common usage terms.
I hope you all will correct me if any of this is just wrong. Thanks.
Marsha Maguire
Manuscripts and Special Collections Cataloging Librarian
University of Washington Libraries
P.O. Box 352900
Seattle, WA 98195-2900
(206) 543-8407 fax: (206) 685-8782
mmaguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Seubert" <seubert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 8:53 PM
Subject: Re: Cataloging question--IASA in particular
Andy,
[non-catalogers are welcome to tune out now]
I would use sound recording as a GMD for a born digital audio file. You
should probably code it as a computer file in a 007, but it's still a
sound recording.
The IASA rules oddly don't address SMDs for digital files. I'd never
noticed this before, but they must have assumed that all sound had a
carrier of some sort. Not so anymore--record on hard disk or flash card,
upload audio to server, reuse media. So no carrier in the traditional
sense. For the SMD of a born digital audio file I think you'd need to
refer to AACR2 and follow the rules for computer files. I don't know if
you can use "1 digital audio file" or what without checking, but I'd keep
it in plain English if possible.
I've never cataloged just one photograph as they most always are part of
some larger collection such as a manuscript collection or a group of
photographs. The GMDs are listed on this page of BFAS:
http://www.oclc.org/bibformats/en/onlinecataloging/. There are GMDs for
"slide" and "picture." Is picture the term for photograph? I don't really
know. There is no GMD for collection that I know of so oddly archival
collections have no GMD.
I wonder if GMDs are going away with the transition from AACR2 to RDA?
GMDs are really pretty useless in my opinion. Material types should just
be coded in the leader and the computer system will figure out what the
heck it is and describe it to the user.
David Seubert
UCSB
andy kolovos wrote:
Folks,
I'm struggling with some cataloging issues, right now in particular I'm
dealing with terms for the General Material Designation (GMD) and
Specific Material Designation (SMD) in relation to our collection. I've
been coming to terms with the IASA rules and have discovered two things:
1. There seem to be no SMD terms for digital audio files
2. There are certainly no terms for dealing with still images (35mm
slides, photographs, etc.)
In regard to issue #1--what terms are people using for audio files?
Although the rules might technically say otherwise, I'm inclined to treat
"born digital" audio files and preservation files as "sound recordings"
on the GMD level (as opposed to treating them as "electronic resource"
which--from the AACR2 perspective might be the proper place). This said,
is there an accepted term for digital audio files under IASA
guidelines--or any guidelines for that matter?
Since #2 is largely off topic I'll direct my questions about that
elsewhere--however, if anyone has some insight I'd appreciate it.
Thanks in advance,
andy