[DCRM-L] DCRM-L Digest, Vol 161, Issue 38

[Liz OKeefe]

Thanks to all who responded to my question about the use of "curator" as an
agent in item-level records. Your comments were very helpful.

Liz O'Keefe

On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 2:15 PM <dcrm-l-request at lib.byu.edu> wrote:

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>    1. Re: Examples of "Curator" in agent to item relationship?
>       (Robert Maxwell)
>    2. Re: Examples of "Curator" in agent to item relationship?
>       (Robert Maxwell)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 18:10:31 +0000
> From: Robert Maxwell <robert_maxwell at byu.edu>
> To: "DCRM Users' Group" <dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] Examples of "Curator" in agent to item
>         relationship?
> Message-ID: <1563991859639.77149 at byu.edu>
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> I was going to note the proposal. The revision proposal is for the
> creation of a new relationship element at the work level to allow a
> relationship between (for example) a person who is curator of an exhibition
> and a work produced by that exhibition (e.g. an exhibition catalog). (The
> current RDA relationship element is at the item level and so would not be
> appropriate to use to link an exhibition curator with the exhibition
> catalog.)
>
>
> As to the specific question, I don't have a record to point you to, but I
> would think that if a catalog record were created for a collection--e.g. at
> BYU we have science fiction writer Orson Scott Card's papers and there is a
> record in the catalog for that collection--the curator of the collection
> could appropriately be included in the record with the relationship
> "curator" and this would be at the item level.
>
>
> Bob
>
>
> Robert L. Maxwell
> Ancient Languages and Special Collections Cataloger
> 6728 Harold B. Lee Library
> Brigham Young University
> Provo, UT 84602
> (801)422-5568
>
> "We should set an example for all the world, rather than confine ourselves
> to the course which has been heretofore pursued"--Eliza R. Snow, 1842.
> ________________________________
> From: DCRM-L <dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu> on behalf of Lapka, Francis <
> francis.lapka at yale.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2019 12:02 PM
> To: DCRM Users' Group
> Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] Examples of "Curator" in agent to item relationship?
>
> Of related interest is an RDA revision proposal drafted by ARLIS/NA and
> the CC:DA 3R Task Force. See attachment.
>
> Francis
>
>
> Francis Lapka
> Senior Catalogue Librarian
> Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts
> Yale Center for British Art
> 203-432-9672  ?  francis.lapka at yale.edu<mailto:francis.lapka at yale.edu>
>
>
>
> From: DCRM-L <dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu> On Behalf Of Erin Blake
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2019 1:02 PM
> To: DCRM Users' Group <dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] Examples of "Curator" in agent to item relationship?
>
> I guess "curator" could be an item-specific relationship if you go far
> enough down the rabbit hole: we have a field in our Acquisitions module
> where we record the curator responsible for deciding a collection item
> should be acquired (an issue because it's often mistaken for the curator
> whose budget it came from, but it's the intellectual contribution we're
> documenting; the financial contribution is recorded elsewhere). That field
> could, in theory, be part of the MARC record in the OPAC.
>
> Erin.
>
> ----------------
> Erin Blake, PhD  |  pronouns: she/her/hers  |  Senior Cataloger  |  Folger
> Shakespeare Library  |  201 E. Capitol St. SE, Washington, DC, 20003  |
> eblake at folger.edu<mailto:eblake at folger.edu>  |  www.folger.edu<
> http://www.folger.edu>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 12:23 PM Liz OKeefe <lokeefe411 at gmail.com<mailto:
> lokeefe411 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> During a recent conversation with colleagues from the ARLIS/NA Cataloging
> Advisory Committee, someone asked for examples of bibliographic records in
> which "curator" was used in an agent to item relationship. No one was able
> to come up offhand with examples, and it's difficult, if not impossible, to
> search OPACs for records where "curator" is used in this way. Could someone
> on DCRM-L help us out? Thanks.
>
> Liz O'Keefe
> Member, ARLIS/NA Cataloging Advisory Committee
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 18:14:46 +0000
> From: Robert Maxwell <robert_maxwell at byu.edu>
> To: "DCRM Users' Group" <dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] Examples of "Curator" in agent to item
>         relationship?
> Message-ID: <1563992114320.11503 at byu.edu>
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> Clarifying my last sentence: the word "item" in this case means the
> collection as a whole, not an individual "item" in the collection. In the
> FRBR/LRM/RDA framework a collection exists at all the WEMI levels so it is
> appropriate to think of the collection as a whole as an "item", even though
> there is only one item (the collection), one manifestation (the same
> collection), one expression (the same collection), and one work (the same
> collection).
>
>
> Bob
>
>
> Robert L. Maxwell
> Ancient Languages and Special Collections Cataloger
> 6728 Harold B. Lee Library
> Brigham Young University
> Provo, UT 84602
> (801)422-5568
>
> "We should set an example for all the world, rather than confine ourselves
> to the course which has been heretofore pursued"--Eliza R. Snow, 1842.
> ________________________________
> From: DCRM-L <dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu> on behalf of Robert Maxwell <
> robert_maxwell at byu.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2019 12:10 PM
> To: DCRM Users' Group
> Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] Examples of "Curator" in agent to item relationship?
>
>
> I was going to note the proposal. The revision proposal is for the
> creation of a new relationship element at the work level to allow a
> relationship between (for example) a person who is curator of an exhibition
> and a work produced by that exhibition (e.g. an exhibition catalog). (The
> current RDA relationship element is at the item level and so would not be
> appropriate to use to link an exhibition curator with the exhibition
> catalog.)
>
>
> As to the specific question, I don't have a record to point you to, but I
> would think that if a catalog record were created for a collection--e.g. at
> BYU we have science fiction writer Orson Scott Card's papers and there is a
> record in the catalog for that collection--the curator of the collection
> could appropriately be included in the record with the relationship
> "curator" and this would be at the item level.
>
>
> Bob
>
>
> Robert L. Maxwell
> Ancient Languages and Special Collections Cataloger
> 6728 Harold B. Lee Library
> Brigham Young University
> Provo, UT 84602
> (801)422-5568
>
> "We should set an example for all the world, rather than confine ourselves
> to the course which has been heretofore pursued"--Eliza R. Snow, 1842.
> ________________________________
> From: DCRM-L <dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu> on behalf of Lapka, Francis <
> francis.lapka at yale.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2019 12:02 PM
> To: DCRM Users' Group
> Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] Examples of "Curator" in agent to item relationship?
>
> Of related interest is an RDA revision proposal drafted by ARLIS/NA and
> the CC:DA 3R Task Force. See attachment.
>
> Francis
>
>
> Francis Lapka
> Senior Catalogue Librarian
> Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts
> Yale Center for British Art
> 203-432-9672  ?  francis.lapka at yale.edu<mailto:francis.lapka at yale.edu>
>
>
>
> From: DCRM-L <dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu> On Behalf Of Erin Blake
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2019 1:02 PM
> To: DCRM Users' Group <dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] Examples of "Curator" in agent to item relationship?
>
> I guess "curator" could be an item-specific relationship if you go far
> enough down the rabbit hole: we have a field in our Acquisitions module
> where we record the curator responsible for deciding a collection item
> should be acquired (an issue because it's often mistaken for the curator
> whose budget it came from, but it's the intellectual contribution we're
> documenting; the financial contribution is recorded elsewhere). That field
> could, in theory, be part of the MARC record in the OPAC.
>
> Erin.
>
> ----------------
> Erin Blake, PhD  |  pronouns: she/her/hers  |  Senior Cataloger  |  Folger
> Shakespeare Library  |  201 E. Capitol St. SE, Washington, DC, 20003  |
> eblake at folger.edu<mailto:eblake at folger.edu>  |  www.folger.edu<
> http://www.folger.edu>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 12:23 PM Liz OKeefe <lokeefe411 at gmail.com<mailto:
> lokeefe411 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> During a recent conversation with colleagues from the ARLIS/NA Cataloging
> Advisory Committee, someone asked for examples of bibliographic records in
> which "curator" was used in an agent to item relationship. No one was able
> to come up offhand with examples, and it's difficult, if not impossible, to
> search OPACs for records where "curator" is used in this way. Could someone
> on DCRM-L help us out? Thanks.
>
> Liz O'Keefe
> Member, ARLIS/NA Cataloging Advisory Committee
>
>
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