OLAC Draft of Operational defintions for moving image works

The Online Audiovisual Catalogers (OLAC) Cataloging Policy Committee's Moving Image Work-Level
Records Task Force has completed a draft of its report and recommendations for operational definitions
for a sample of five attributes of or roles needed for moving image work/primary expression records.

We started out with the intention to simply write definitions for each term. However, while thinking about
these pieces of information in the context of a shared, online database, we decided that it would be useful
to investigate at least some types of "data about data" and to consider how we might be able to accommodate
different types of data (e.g., both identifiers and textual strings) and deal with different levels of
data reliability. We have tried to explain our reasoning and process in the introductory section. We do
not believe that this draft has reached its final form yet, but we do think that we have come to a point where
it would be useful to get feedback from a larger group on the perceived viability of our general approach.
To evaluate the document, you may find it helpful to attempt to create a few sample records using these guidelines.

This section will also include an annotated list of potential sources for work-level information. The
secondary sources section is not quite complete, but we hope to issue a draft in the near future.

The draft report is available on the OLAC web site at http://olacinc.org/drupal/?q=node/27 as Part 3a
(http://olacinc.org/drupal/capc_files/MIWpt3aDraft.pdf). We will take comments and suggestions
on the draft through Friday, July 31. Comments may be sent to me at
kmcgrath@... or to this list.

Thank you in advance for your input.

Kelley McGrath
OLAC/CAPC Moving Image Work-Level Records Task Force chair
kmcgrath@...

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