Resource Description & Access (RDA)

RDA RELATIONSHIP DESIGNATORS Library of Congress Implementation of Resource Description and Access Relationship Designators in Bibliographic Records with MARC 21 RDA Cataloging Examples, Guidelines, and Best Practices Key points The training manual is only for relationship designators in  bibliographic  records. The  requirement  for providing relationship designators is only applicable to  creators , whether coded in MARC 1XX or 7XX. Relationship designators for Person-Family-Corporate Body  should not be used in a name/title access point tagged 7XX or 8XX, even if they are creators. If the nature of the relationship cannot be ascertained even at a general level,  do not assign a relationship designator  (if in doubt, leave it out). Other relationship designators are encouraged. The element name, e.g., “creator”, may be used as a relationship designator when you can’t determine a more appropriate relationship designator. The tr...

RELATIONSHIP DESIGNATOR APPENDIX I.2.2 : Relationship Designators for Other Persons, Families, or Corporate Bodies Associated with a Work honouree Use this relationship designator with a person, family, or corporate body honoured by a work (e.g., the honouree of a festschrift or a commemorative volume) (MARC21 tag 700, 710, subfield e) host institution Use this relationship designator with a corporate body hosting the event, exhibit, conference, etc., which gave rise to a work, but having little or no responsibility for the content of the work (MARC21 tag 710, subfield e) organizer Use this relationship designator with a person, family, or corporate body organizing the exhibit, event, conference, etc., which gave rise to a work (MARC21 tag 700, 710, subfield e) sponsoring body Use this relationship designator with a person, family, or corporate body sponsoring some aspect of a work, e.g., funding research, sponsoring an event (MARC21 tag 700, 710, subfield e) [Q...

RDA RELATIONSHIP DESIGNATORS We are supposed to be adding relationship designators whenever possible: Relationship Designators in Bibliographic Records : guidelines for application          PCC Guidelines for the Application of Relationship Designators in Bibliographic Records These Guidelines are the result of the PCC Policy Committee’s (PoCo) consideration of recommendations made by the PCC Relationship Designator Task Force in their final report . The Guidelines are based on recommendations made in section 4 of the report but some guidelines have been edited to reflect policy decisions made by PoCo.   The Guidelines are meant to serve as a stand-alone document giving general guidance for catalogers beginning to apply relationship designators in their cataloging.  The document assumes an understanding of the appropriate RDA instructions and LC-PCC Policy Statements.  It is highly recommended that PCC catalogers ta...

RDA RELATIONSHIP DESIGNATORS   MARC Code List for Relators [Also Valid as Relationship Designator in Resource Description and Access (RDA) Cataloging] Relator terms and their associated codes designate the relationship between a name and a bibliographic resource. The relator codes are three-character lowercase alphabetic strings that serve as identifiers. Either the term or the code may be used as controlled values. URI(s) http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators Instance Of MADS/RDF MADSScheme SKOS ConceptScheme   Top Scheme Members   Abridger   Actor   Adapter   Addressee   Analyst   Animator   Annotator   Appellant   Appellee   Applicant   Architect   Arranger   Art copyist   Art director   Artist   Artistic director   Assignee   Associated name   Attributed name   Auctioneer ...