[DCRM-L] Subdividing Genre Terms

[Erin Blake]

Too many interesting questions and not enough time to talk about them!

The short answer is that limited staff means it's always a trade-off!
Currently, we mostly rely on the dates in the 008, the use of standard
terminology in notes, and references in 510s so that information vetted and
verified by a professional cataloger can be enhanced with additional access
points later.

If a particular woodcut or set of woodcuts in a printed text were
super-important, our Curator of Early Modern Books and Prints could ask us
to create a separate record for the woodcuts following DCRM(G) Appendix K,
and we'd bring in standard art historical vocabulary from AAT for Styles,
Periods, and Regions. Artists and woodblocks moved around, so place of
creation of the matrix, place of printing from the matrix, national origin
of the artist versus national style the artist was trained in, etc. make it
pretty complicated for MARC.

In general, I comfort myself with the thought that this will be *so *much
more efficient with systems designed for linked data and WEMI structure
that it's better to make sure what I've already got is clean and correct at
the item level.

EB

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On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 11:53 AM Robert Maxwell <robert_maxwell at byu.edu>
wrote:

> The place recorded in 752 (publication place) isn’t always the same as a
> place recorded in a 655 subdivision, though (for example, woodcuts might
> have been created in Germany whereas the book was printed/published in
> France)—do you have other provisions for recording other kinds of places in
> the record? And what about dates you might have otherwise recorded as a
> subdivision?
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> Bob
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> Robert L. Maxwell
> Ancient Languages and Special Collections Librarian
> 6728 Harold B. Lee Library
> Brigham Young University
> Provo, UT 84602
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> *From:* DCRM-L <dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu> *On Behalf Of *Erin Blake
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 11, 2022 9:42 AM
> *To:* DCRM Users' Group <dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu>
> *Subject:* Re: [DCRM-L] Subdividing Genre Terms
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> Yes, our records use 752 for place of publication (or production, in the
> case of manuscripts, drawings, etc.). Fully-cataloged records go to the
> city level. Preliminary records are periodically batch-updated to pull the
> place from the 008 (where "periodically" currently means "once in a blue
> moon").
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> EB
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> On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 11:29 AM Will Evans <evans at bostonathenaeum.org>
> wrote:
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> Hi Erin,
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> By elsewhere in the record are you referring to the 752 and perhap
> other 6xxs?
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> Best,
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> Will
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> On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 10:19 AM Erin Blake <erin.blake.folger at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> We stopped subdividing 655s in 2014, but it wasn't just in anticipation of
> linked data. It was also in anticipation of faceted check-boxes appearing
> in a side-bar (which we are only now about to get, in 2022!) and to avoid
> duplication of effort: since places and dates appear in standardized form
> elsewhere in the record.
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> That being said, we still subdivide manuscripts by century, at the request
> of the Curator of Manuscripts.
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> Erin
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> On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 10:12 AM Robert Maxwell <robert_maxwell at byu.edu>
> wrote:
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> We still subdivide by country and/or century.
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> Robert L. Maxwell
> Ancient Languages and Special Collections Librarian
> 6728 Harold B. Lee Library
> Brigham Young University
> Provo, UT 84602
> (801)422-5568
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> *From:* DCRM-L <dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu> *On Behalf Of *Will Evans
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 11, 2022 7:56 AM
> *To:* DCRM Revision Group List <dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu>
> *Subject:* [DCRM-L] Subdividing Genre Terms
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> For those that made a practice of subdividing genre headings (RBMS, GMGPC
> terms in particular), are you continuing to do so? Or have you stopped in
> anticipation of the switch to linked data?
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> Best,
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> Will
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> Will Evans, MLIS
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> Will Evans, MLIS
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> National Endowment for the Humanities
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> Chief Librarian in Charge of Technical Services
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> Library of the Boston Athenaeum
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> 10 1/2 Beacon Street
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> Boston, MA   02108
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> Tel:  617-227-0270 ext. 224
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