Your question points out an interesting discrepancy in RDA that was carried over from AACR2 (2.17B1) and should be re-examined with regard to Early Printed Resources, where RDA 3.21.2 for item-specific carrier characteristics now includes notes about the "rubrication, illumination, and other hand-colouring...", which indeed are part of the content (expression) embodied in that specific item. Perhaps someone would like to propose a revision to RDA?
As you noted, in RDA, color/colour generally is considered a characteristic of the content (RDA 7.17), when it deals with colors for illustrations, images, objects - the content of a resource. This includes all colors in the spectrum (including black and white, all shades and tints, etc.). There may also be color involved with a resource for a non-content aspect, like the binding, which could be noted as part of the carrier characteristics (manifestation RDA 3.22 Note, or item-specific data as in RDA 3.21). Barbara B. Tillett Chair, JSC On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Joan Wang <jw...@illinoisheartland.org>wrote: > Hi, > > > I have a question about color. Is color an attribute at the manifestation > or content level? > > > In FRBR, Color (Image) is an attribute listed under manifestation. The > explanation is “*Colour is the colour(s), tone(s), etc. (including black > and white) used in the production of an image*”. Here, color is a result > from the production. > > > In RDA, colour content is an attribute listed under expression. The > explanation is “Colour content is the presence of colour, tone, etc., in > the content of a resource”, and “*Colour content is also the specific > colours, tones, etc., (including black and white) present in the content of > a resource**”*. > > > More explanations are: > > * > * > > *Colour of still image is the presence of colour, tone, etc., in a still > image or images contained in a resource.* > > *Colour of moving image is the presence of colour, tone, etc., in a > moving image or images contained in a resource.* > > *Colour of three-dimensional form *is the presence of colour, tone, etc., > in a three-dimensional form or forms contained in a resource.** > > > We can say that illustration (image) is a way of expressing a work. > Illustration must involve color if color includes black and white. Color is > also something that can be perceived from a physical material. In some > situations, the color attribute very depends on the production. Here a > question: Is color an attribute to differentiate an expression or a > manifestation? Or it depends on cases? > > > Also, according to the definition, color includes black and white. So for > any illustrations, we can encode them “color”, unless we give more precise > descriptions such as black and white, or taupe and blue green. > > > Thanks, > > Joan Wang > > > -- > Zhonghong (Joan) Wang, Ph.D. > Cataloger -- CMC > Illinois Heartland Library System (Edwardsville Office) > 6725 Goshen Road > Edwardsville, IL 62025 > 618.656.3216x409 > 618.656.9401Fax > -- Dr. Barbara B. Tillett, Ph.D. Chair, Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA
