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PCC POLICY FOR ADDITION OF RELATIONSHIP DESIGNATORS

“Include a relationship designator

for all creators, whether they are coded MARC 1XX or MARC 7XX”.

Penn’s video catalog

8+ years; 2 major versions

MARC records ingested from general catalog

Presented for a special audience

CREATING VCAT

7,000+ records updated over course of a year

Added:511 / 508 Note: Cast and Credits (directors, etc)

Summary NoteGenre terms7XX with $4 relator codes

Now: nearly 25,000 records

• Director• Producer• Screenwriter• Actor• Narrator

• Composer• Author• Production

company• Distribution

company

7XX with $4 relator codes

VIDEO IN FRANKLIN

• Access

• Format

• Subject

• Language

• Library

• Specific location

• Publication date

• Classification

• Author/Creator

• Genre

• Location

• Format

• Region

• Genre

• Year

• Spoken language

• Subtitles

• Accessibility

• Title

• Director

• Actor

• Musical score composer

• Production studio

• Country of production

• Screenplay

• Film technique

• Cover image available

FRANKLIN VS. VCAT FACETS

• Director• Actor• Musical score

composer• Production studio

LESSONS LEARNED

Standardize records

Create a substantial corpus

Once in place—routine to maintain

Value in display and discovery

Problem area: batchload files of cataloging for streaming video

RDA PLANS

Change to relationship designators for new cataloging

Update ingest specs to include both old and new in same facet

LINKS

VCAT

http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/vcat/index.html

Franklin

http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/franklin/index.html

Beth Picknally Camden

Email: bethpc@upenn.edu

Twitter: @librarianbeth