The section on 6.9 Content Type only addresses recording this element in
bibliographic records. Shouldn't it also address when and if to record
this in authority records for expressions?
The same question applies to 6.9 Language of Expression.
Adam
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On Mon, 11 Feb 2013, Casey A Mullin wrote:
[Cross-posted widely. Please excuse the duplication]
Colleagues,
The MLA-BCC RDA Music Implementation Task Force is happy to announce the
release of the first complete draft of "Best Practices for Music Cataloging
using RDA and MARC21." This document represents over sixteen months of effort
by the task force to determine and articulate best practices for the
description of music resources (chiefly scores and audio recordings). In the
increasingly decentralized environment of library metadata standards, this
document addresses the need for specific guidance for catalogers describing
music resources that is authoritative, yet flexible to the needs of
individual institutions. It is intended to supplement the text of RDA itself,
and accounts for (though does not presume full adherence to) the Library of
Congress-Program for Cooperative Cataloging Policy Statements (LC-PCC PS).
The task force invites broad input regarding these best practices, from both
specialists within the music community and non-specialists who work with
music materials (or manage those who do). Formal means for collecting
community feedback and incorporating it into revisions of the best practices
document on an ongoing basis are still being developed. For the current
draft, please send feedback directly to the task force chair (yours truly) at
cmul...@stanford.edu.
Additionally, these best practices decisions will be the topic of a panel
discussion at the MLA Annual Meeting in San Jose, CA on February 28, 2013,
entitled "RDA Best Practices for Music: A Conversation." Specific topics to
be discussed will be based directly on feedback gathered from e-mail
responses in advance of the meeting, and from those attending the session (in
"town hall" fashion). Whether or not you are able to attend the MLA session,
we want to hear from you!!
The current draft may be found here:
http://bcc.musiclibraryassoc.org/BCC-Historical/BCC2013/RDA_Best_Practices_for_Music_Cataloging.pdf
Many thanks,
Casey Mullin
Chair, MLA-BCC RDA Music Implementation Task Force
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minority rather than most of the people of the world (sadly), but that
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technological advancement of humanity. It is even possible that if we did a
better job of providing access to such data, we might enable the enlargement
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