Hi-- On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 1:13 AM, Manos PETRIDIS <egpetri...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Very, very interesting. I'm not a librarian and the example given is most > helpful. I have a "maritime" question: in the case of a ship's photograph, > where would/do you keep the ships' IMO number, its call code or other such > identity numbers? The same for the business entities involved (builder, > owner etc.) > We record identity numbers for the ship, when the ship is more well-known by its name(s), as see-references in the authority record, and business entities related to the ship are recorded in the authority record's notes--the authority records contain all the information available about the ship, and all variant ways someone would search for materials about that ship. When, e.g., a book or photograph contains content related to the business entities associated with a ship, then those entities are also recorded in appropriate subject and/or name added entries (610, 710, etc.) on the bibliographic record. (Most of our headings for ships have been established under AACR2, and we're just implementing RDA, by the way.) So our authority records for a ship with name changes would contain fields something like these (made up examples): 110 2_ Monumental (Cargo ship) 410 2_ Hull no. 2534 410 2_ IMO 1234567 510 2_ President Washington (Cargo ship) $w b 667 __ SS Monumental built at Bethlehem Shipyard, San Francisco, hull no. 2534, launched Apr. 5, 1932, for Pacific Mail Steamship Co.; sold to American President Lines on Mar. 2, 1946, name changed to SS Stupendous upon sale. 110 2_ President Washington (Cargo ship) 410 2_ Hull no. 2534 410 2_ IMO 1234567 510 2_ Monumental (Cargo ship) $w a 667 __ SS Monumental built at Bethlehem Shipyard, San Francisco, hull no. 2534, launched Apr. 5, 1932, for Pacific Mail Steamship Co.; sold to American President Lines on Mar. 2, 1946, name changed to SS President Washington upon sale. If a vessel, though, is more well known by a number, then that's its established heading, e.g., "PT-109 (Torpedo boat)." But since we have a historical collection, most of the ships for which we're establishing headings are more well known by a name rather than a number. Cheerio! Heather ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Heather Hernandez Technical Services Librarian Cultural Resources and Museum Management Division San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park heather_hernan...@nps.gov 415-561-7032 (voice) 415-556-3540 (fax) http://www.nps.gov/safr/historyculture/library-collections.htm "The sailor does not pray for wind, he learns to sail."--Gustaf Lindborg _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha