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Cataloger Scenarios

Note: These scenarios are intended to assist catalogers in visualizing how their work might flow in a setting that used RDA Vocabularies and FRBR relationships. The goal here is just to show how these packages of information might fit together and how catalogers can use their knowledge and experience in different contexts.

Caveats: 1. The labels used are those present in the latest spreadsheet available from JSC, but are not intended to reflect decisions made on labeling the RDA elements or to be "complete." 2. Roles are used below but not necessarily the ones in the current roles draft nor are they differentiated based on the Group I entity used. 3. Identifiers are assumed to be mandatory but many will presumably be system supplied; only some "standard" ones are used in these examples. 4. Vocabularies are not based on any recognized list 5. Assumptions are made about how systems using RDA will assist in the process. Your mileage may vary.

Scenario 1: A new expression for an existing simple work

Link to Scenario 1 Analysis: Scenarios/1

Jane Cataloger is assigned to work on a gift collection. Her first selection is a Latvian translation of Kurt Vonnegut's "Bluebeard: a novel." She searches the library database for the original work, and finds:

with links to the following expression information:

and one manifestation:

Jane begins her description by linking to the existing Work entity. She then creates an expression description:

She creates an authority record for the translator since none yet existed. She continues by creating a fuller description for the new manifestation, linking to the authority record for the Latvian publisher (what luck, it already existed!).

Scenario 2: A collected work

Jane Cataloger selects a second item to catalog from her gift collection. This item is a festschrift in honor of an environmental activist who died young, containing contributions by a number of important writers in the field. Jane begins by searching the library database and publisher databases for the collection itself. She finds an existing record for the collection as a work, from an ONIX record contributed by the publisher. She uses that record as a basis for the work description, adding a subject heading for the collection and a link to an existing authority record for the honoree and another to the editor of the collection.

Since her institution has a strong environmental program, she also creates work records for each of the contributions, and links them to the collection using relationship links and identifiers to and from the individual contributions. This allows the collected work to reflect the parts, and the contribution records to relate to the collection. Example:

She creates an expression record for each work (including the collected work), with language and content type elements. Example:

She uses information in the ONIX record to create a manifestation record for the collection (which will also be linked to and from the expression records for the parts).

She creates authority records as required.

Scenario 3: A multimedia creation based on a previously published item

The next item in Jane Cataloger's queue is a DVD of a movie written, filmed and scored by students in the local university, the screenplay based on a short story written by a faculty member. Jane finds that the story was published in a collection of stories by this particular faculty member, so she creates a work record and an expression record for the story and relates it to the collection (which is already represented by a work record).

For the story, she provides a link to the manifestation record for the collected stories, since the story is not published in any other manifestation.

She then creates additional work, expression and manifestation records for the screenplay (which is available online):

From there she creates work record and expression records for the movie, and relates it at the work level to the related works.

Jane invokes searches for the named contributors to the three works, and assigns:

1. the existing authority record for author of the short story to the work record for the story itself; 2. a newly created authority record for the student writer of the screenplay to the work record for the screenplay; 3. several newly created authority records for the various contributors to the movie itself.

This accomplished, she moves on to manifestation for the movie:

[Consulted] Yee, Martha M. Understanding FRBR. Chapter 11, FRBR and Moving Image Materials: Content (Work and Expression) versus Carrier (Manifestation). Available at: http://repositories.cdlib.org/postprints/2648/

Scenario 4: Complex DVD Versions, or, Reality Bites

[Contributed by Greta de Groat]

Jane Cataloger is working on cataloging the individual DVDs from the Ford at Fox Collection. The selector has repackaged the individual DVDs in containers and asked Cataloging to catalog them separately. However, this package contains two DVDs for the film The Iron Horse. She searches the library database and finds:

A work record for the Ford at Fox collection

A work record for the film The Iron Horse:

There are assorted other people related to the work, but Jane's not working for a film archive, so she doesn't add any more of them to the work record.

Now, the two DVDs are two different versions of the film. Presumably she could choose to catalog the DVDs separately or together, but since her selector gave them to her together, she catalogs them together. One DVD is the International version, and the other is the US version. Both have scores by William Perry. So she creates two expression records:

Jane finds this expression record attached to a manifestation released by the British Film Institute:

Jane wonders if this is the same as her International version. It has the same running time and also has a score by William Perry. So she takes a chance and adds to the record:

[In addition, this has optional French or Spanish intertitles so presumably each of those would also be expressions, so Jane would need two more expression records?]

Jane does not find this expression record and needs to create it:

One or both of these also has a commentary track by Robert Birchard (mea culpa, i didn't note which one when i cataloged it, nor did anyone in OCLC). So presumably the one with the commentary track is yet another expression. so so far Jane has had to use one existing expression record and had to create 6 more expression records for this.

Jane is unsure which other expression is already in OCLC. The two VHS tapes from Nostalgia Family Video run 133 minutes so Jane thinks they might be the international Version, though this is not stated. However, they have an orchestral score by an unidentified composer or compiler, so are a different expression. So she doesn't link to this expression record.

She also finds that the DVDs have a featurette; a restoration comparison; vintage program gallery; advertising gallery; still gallery. Jane is tired by this time and decides that these are untitled and worthy of only a note, instead of creating work records for each. Jane is also starting to worry that the implication of a "restoration comparison" means that there may be a difference in expression between the BFI version and this version, but she really has no way to research this. What does Jane do? Flip a coin? Try to call film experts? Ignore it and let it pass?

Ignoring that for the moment, Jane can finally gets down to the manifestation:

She also has to link to the Ford at Fox set somehow for the series. Jane thinks this is manifestation information, and is unsure how the linkage will work between individually cataloged manifestations and the set, which presumably has work, expression, and manifestation records.

Jane has now spent two days cataloging this resource. Her boss calls her into her office to explain why she should spend so much time and money playing with her records when they could just outsource it to India. Jane goes back to her desk and looks at the next time in her pile, which is a videodisc containing 30 short films by filmmaker Dennis Oppenheim. The one under that is a disc 60 short animated films by a variety of people she's never heard of. Next is the second volume with another 60 films. She contemplates the idea of work records for these, then goes home and slits her wrists.

Scenario 5: Musical score

[Contributed by Kathy Glennan]

Jane Cataloger next picks up a musical score, an arrangement of Luigi Boccherini's Concerto in D major op. 34 for violoncello and orchestra, edited, with cadenzas and piano reduction by Luigi Silva.

She searches the library database for the original work and finds:

with links to the following expression information:

and the following manifestation:

(other manifestations in the library catalog include three separate ms. versions of the above; a full score edited by Aldo Pais; a violoncello and piano manifestation edited by Aldo Pais; a collection of 6 violoncello concertos by Boccherini, of which this composition is #6, edited by James Collorafi; a collection of 6 violoncello concertos by Boccherini, of which this composition is #6, edited by James Nicholas)

Theoretically, the work record for G. 483 could have a link to the following work; however, since Jane cannot identify the actual title assigned to the two cadenzas written by Silva, she does not create this work record:

The work record should also be linked to the following related work:

This is linked to the following expression:

This is linked to the following manifestation:

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