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New Concepts: Representative Expressions and Manifestation Statements (February 2020)
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Representative
Expressions
February 19, 20201
Robert L. Maxwell
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The 2020 RDA – Where
does it come from?
• A major revision of RDA,
based on
• IFLA Library Reference
Model (2017) = “LRM”
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LRM
• LRM is a consolidation of
• Functional Requirements for
Bibliographic Records (FRBR)
(1997)
• Functional Requirements for
Authority Data (FRAD) (2009)
• Functional Requirements for
Subject Authority Data (FRSAD)
(2010)
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The FRBR/LRM bibliographic universe
Work
Expression
Manifestation
Item
is realized through
is embodied in
is exemplified by
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The FRBR/LRM bibliographic universe
Relationships
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The FRBR/LRM bibliographic universe
Relationships
RDF triples that link the WEMI entities
Subject (Domain) Predicate (Relationship) Object (Range)
Work => has expression of work => Expression
Expression => has manifestation of expression => Manifestation
Manifestation => has exemplar of manifestation => Item
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The FRBR/LRM bibliographic universe
Relationships
Subject (Domain) Predicate (Relationship) Object (Range)
Work => has expression of work => Expression
Alice in Wonderland=> has expression of work=> Carroll’s English-
language text
Expression => has manifestation of expression => Manifestation
Carroll’s English- => has manifestation of expression => 1865 publication
language text by Macmillan
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The FRBR/LRM bibliographic universe
Attributes
• In the model, entities have attributes (called elements in RDA) that
may be used to describe instances of an entity and distinguish
instances from each other
• At the model level, entities must be defined so that they do not
overlap
• Attributes used to describe one entity cannot be defined for use
with another entity
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RDA Elements (Current text)
Work
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RDA Elements (Current text)
Expression
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RDA Elements (2020 text)
Work
• Category of work
• Coordinates of cartographic content
• Coverage of content
• Date of work
• Dissertation or thesis information
• Declination
• Epoch
• Equinox
• Extension plan
• Frequency
• History of work
• Identifier for work
• ISSN
• Key title
• Nature of content
• Note on metadata work
• Note on work
• Numbering of part
• Numeric designation of musical work
• Other distinguishing characteristic of work
• Place of origin of work
• Recording source
• Scope of validity
• Source consulted
• System of organization
• Title of work
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RDA Elements (2020 text)
Expression
• Accessibility content
• Aspect ratio
• Award
• Capture information
• Category of expression
• Colour content
• Content type
• Date of expression
• Designation of version
• Details of … elements and subelements
• Duration
• Extent of expression
• Form of notation
• Format of notated music
• Identifier for expression
• Illustrative content
• Intended audience of expression
• Interactivity mode
• Key of expression
• Language of content
• Language of expression
• Medium of performance of choreographic
content
• Medium of performance of musical content
• Note on expression
• Other distinguishing characteristic of expression
• Projection of cartographic content
• Scale
• Sound content
• Summarization of content
• Supplementary content
• Title of expression
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So what’s the problem?
• Entity-relationship principles require strict boundaries between
the entities in terms of the attributes that can be used to describe
them
• The new Toolkit is quite clear about what the domain of each
element is
• This is necessitated by requirements of linked data structures
• But people don’t necessarily think of the bibliographical universe
in these terms
• In particular, database users often associate attributes of
expression with works
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So what’s the problem?
• For example, many think of the work Alice’s adventures in
Wonderland as
oA novel
Work element: category of work
oA text
Expression element: content type
oIn English
Expression element: language of expression
oFor children
Expression element (in 2020 RDA): Intended audience
of expression
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So what’s the problem?
• Under current RDA it is inappropriate to include language or content
type in a description (a.k.a. authority record) for a work and under the
2020 text it will be inappropriate to record intended audience because
none of these is (or will be) an element that can be used to describe a
work entity:
046 __ ǂk 1865 ǂ2 edtf
100 1_ Carroll, Lewis, ǂd 1832-1898. ǂt Alice's adventures in Wonderland
336 __ text ǂ2 rdacontent
377 __ eng
380 __ Novels ǂa Fantasy fiction ǂa Nonsense fiction ǂ2 lcgft
385 __ Children ǂ2 lcdgt
400 1_ Carroll, Lewis, ǂd 1832-1898. ǂt Alice in Wonderland
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So what’s the problem?
• Catalogers clearly want to record this type of information in
descriptions of works and they’re not wrong to want to, though current
RDA doesn’t allow it. From the current NAF:
046 __ ǂk 1967-09 ǂl 1969-01
130 _0 Ballantonian (Bloomington, Ind.)
370 __ ǂg Bloomington (Ind.) ǂ2 naf
377 __ eng
380 __ College student newspapers and periodicals ǂ2 lcsh
510 2_ ǂw r ǂi Sponsoring body: ǂa Indiana University College
670 __ The Ballantonian records, 1967-1969 ǂb (The Ballantonian; weekly liberal
arts review run by Indiana University students and sponsored by the English
Department; journal ran from September 1967 to January 1969)
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So what’s the problem?
046 __ ǂk 1891 ǂ2 edtf
100 1_ Verlaine, Paul, ǂd 1844-1896. ǂt Romances sans paroles
377 __ fre
380 __ Poetry ǂ2 lcdgt
***
100 1_ Ralphson, G. Harvey ǂq (George Harvey), ǂd 1879-1940. ǂt Boy Scouts in an
airship
377 __ eng
380 __ Action and adventure fiction ǂa Novels ǂ2 lcgft
***
046 __ ǂk 1973 ǂ2 edtf
100 1_ Ducharme, Réjean. ǂt Hiver de force
377 __ fre
380 __ Novels ǂ2 lcgft
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The solution:
Representative expression
• New concept introduced with LRM
• Initially one possibility was to choose an expression as the
“representative expression” of a work
• Instead, however, as finally published LRM defined an attribute of
work called representative expression attribute:
“An attribute which is deemed essential in characterizing the work and
whose values are taken from a representative or canonical expression of the
work”
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Representative expression
in 2020 RDA
• RDA has adopted both the concept of representative expression (a
relationship) as well as representative expression attributes (work-
level elements)
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Representative
expression (relationship)
Subject (Domain) Predicate (Relationship) Object (Range)
Work => has representative expression => Expression
Alice in Wonderland=> has representative expression => 1865 English-language text
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Representative
expression (relationship)
MARC authority record expressing this relationship
046 __ ǂk 1865 ǂ2 edtf
100 1_ Carroll, Lewis, ǂd 1832-1898. ǂt Alice's adventures in
Wonderland
500 1_ ǂw r ǂi Representative expression: ǂa Carroll, Lewis,
ǂd 1832-1898. ǂt Alice's adventures in Wonderland.
ǂl English. ǂf 1865
[hypothetical authorized access point for the 1865
English-language expression]
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Representative expression
(relationship)
046 ǂk 2003 ǂ2 edtf
100 1_ Schwartz, Stephen. ǂt Wicked
380 Musicals ǂ2 lcsh
500 1_ ǂw r ǂi Representative expression: ǂa Schwartz,
Stephen. ǂt Wicked. ǂh Notated music. ǂf 2003
500 1_ ǂw r ǂi Representative expression: ǂa Schwartz,
Stephen. ǂt Wicked. ǂh Performed music. ǂf 2003
046 ǂk 2003 ǂ2 edtf
100 1_ Schwartz, Stephen. ǂt Wicked. ǂh
Notated music. ǂf 2003
336 Notated music ǂ2 rdacontent
337 eng
046 ǂk 2003 ǂ2 edtf
100 1_ Schwartz, Stephen. ǂt Wicked. ǂh
Performed music. ǂf 2003
336 Performed music ǂ2 rdacontent
337 eng
667 Performance by the original cast
recorded November 10, 2003 in New
York, New York.
has representative expression
has representative expression
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Representative expression
(relationship)
046 ǂk 1995 ǂ2 edtf
100 1_ Bach, P. D. Q., ǂd 1742-1807. ǂt Little pickle book
380 Musical parodies ǂ2 lcsh
400 Bach, P. D. Q., ǂd 1742-1807. ǂt Pöckelbüchlein
500 1_ ǂw r ǂi Representative expression: ǂa Bach, P. D. Q., ǂd 1742-
1807. ǂt Little pickle book. ǂh Notated music. ǂf 1995
500 1_ ǂw r ǂi Representative expression: ǂa Bach, P. D. Q., ǂd 1742-
1807. ǂt Little pickle book. ǂh Performed music. ǂf 1995
046 ǂk 1995 ǂ2 edtf
100 1_ Bach, P. D. Q., ǂd 1742-1807. ǂt Little pickle
book. ǂh Notated music. ǂf 1995
336 Notated music ǂ2 rdacontent
337 eng
046 ǂk 1995 ǂ2 edtf
100 1_ Bach, P. D. Q., ǂd 1742-1807. ǂt Little pickle book. ǂh Performed
music. ǂf 1995
336 Performed music ǂ2 rdacontent
337 eng
500 1_ ǂw r ǂi Performer: ǂa Schickele, Peter
667 Performance by Peter Schickele recorded April 11, 1995 in Hoople,
North Dakota.
has representative expression
has representative expression
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Representative expression elements
Works with textual aspects
• Colour content of
representative expression
• Content type of representative
expression
• Date of representative
expression
• Extent of representative
expression
• Intended audience of
representative expression
• Language of representative
expression
• Script of representative
expression
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Representative expression elements
Works with moving image aspects
• Aspect ratio of representative
expression
• Colour content of representative
expression
• Content type of representative
expression
• Date of capture of representative
expression
• Date of representative expression
• Duration of representative
expression
• Extent of representative expression
• Intended audience of representative
expression
• Language of representative
expression
• Medium of performance of
choreographic content of
representative expression
• Medium of performance of musical
content of representative expression
• Place of capture of representative
expression
• Sound content of representative
expression
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Representative expression elements
Works with sound recording aspects
• Content type of representative
expression
• Date of capture of representative
expression
• Date of representative expression
• Duration of representative
expression
• Extent of representative expression
• Intended audience of representative
expression
• Key of representative expression
• Language of representative
expression
• Medium of performance of
choreographic content of
representative expression
• Medium of performance of musical
content of representative expression
• Place of capture of representative
expression
• Sound content of representative
expression
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Representative expression elements
Works with notated music aspects
• Content type of representative
expression
• Date of representative expression
• Duration of representative
expression
• Extent of representative
expression
• Intended audience of
representative expression
• Key of representative expression
• Medium of performance of
musical content of representative
expression
• Script of representative
expression
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Representative expression elements
Works with cartographic aspects
• Colour content of representative
expression
• Content type of representative
expression
• Date of representative expression
• Extent of representative
expression
• Intended audience of
representative expression
• Language of representative
expression
• Projection of cartographic
content of representative
expression
• Scale of representative expression
• Script of representative
expression
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Metadata description sets
• New vocabulary for what we have in the past called
“records,” e.g., “authority records for persons,” etc.
• RDA Glossary definition:
• One or more metadata statements that describe and
relate individual instances of one or more RDA
entities.
• A metadata statement is “a piece of metadata that
assigns a value to an RDA element that describes an
individual instance of an RDA entity.”
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Metadata description sets
• An RDF triple is an example of a metadata
statement
Subject (the Domain) => Predicate (the Element) => Object (the Range)
Person (an RDA entity) => has date of birth => Timespan (an RDA entity)
Terry Pratchett => has date of birth => April 28, 1948
• A set of RDF triples when combined to describe
an entity is a metadata description set
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Metadata Description Set
Example
Work
has creator agent of work Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898
has preferred title of work Alice's adventures in Wonderland
has category of work Novels ; Fantasy fiction ; Nonsense fiction
has date of work 1865
has language of representative English
expression
has content type of text
representative expression
has intended audience of Children
representative expression
has authorized access point Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898. Alice's adventures in
for work Wonderland
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Metadata Description Set
Example
Work
has creator agent of work Schwartz, Stephen
has preferred title of work Wicked
has category of work Musicals
has date of work 2003
has content type of representative Performed music ; Notated music
expression
has language of representative English
expression
has date of capture November 10, 2003
representative expression
has place of capture of New York (N.Y.)
representative expression
has duration of 70 min., 40 sec.
representative expression
has authorized access point Schwartz, Stephen. Wicked
for work
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Metadata Description Set
Example
Work
has creator agent of work Bach, P. D. Q., 1742-1807
has preferred title of work Little pickle book
has category of work Musical parodies
has date of work 1995
has content type of representative Performed music ; Notated music
expression
has language of representative English
expression
has date of capture April 11, 1995
representative expression
has place of capture of Hoople (N.D.)
representative expression
has duration of approximately 6 min. [performance time found on score]
representative expression
has duration of 9 min., 52 sec. [actual performance time of this recording]
representative expression
has authorized access point Bach, P. D. Q., 1742-1807. Little pickle book
for work
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Metadata Description Set
Example
Work
has creator agent of work Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918
has preferred title of work Syrinx
has category of work Art music
has date of work 1913
has date of representative 1927
expression
has medium of performance of musical flute
content of representative
expression
has content type of notated music
representative expression
has authorized access point Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918. Syrinx
for work
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Metadata Description Set
Example
Work
has preferred title of work The wizard of Oz
has category of work Fantasy films ; Action and adventure films ; Musical films ; Fiction films
has date of work 1939
has content type of representative two-dimensional moving image
expression
has colour content of monochrome ; polychrome
representative expression
has aspect ratio of 1.37: 1
representative expression
has date of capture of 1938 October 13-1939 March 16
representative expression
has place of capture of Culver City (Calif.)
representative expression
has duration of 102 minutes
representative expression
has language of English
representative expression
has authorized access point Wizard of Oz (Motion picture : 1939)
for work
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Metadata Description Set
Example
Work
has preferred title of work eSwatini
has category of work Political map
has date of work 2018
has content type of cartographic image
representative expression
has colour content of polychrome
representative expression
has scale of 1:1,400,000
representative expression
has authorized access point eSwatini (2018)
for work
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OK, so how do I do this in
MARC?
• Good question!
• The MARC Advisory Committee has not yet created coding for
representative expression elements
oUse existing coding?
oUse existing field coding, but define different subfields for representative
expression elements?
oUse entirely different field coding?
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OK, so how do I do this
in MARC?
Possible MARC work-level authority record (X = undefined as yet)
046 __ ǂk 1939 ǂ2 edtf
046 __ $X 1938-10-13 $X 1939-03-16 $2 edtf [date of capture of representative expression]
130 _0 Wizard of Oz (Motion picture : 1939)
336 __ $X two-dimensional moving image $2 rdacontent [content type of representative
expression]
370 __ $X Culver City (Calif) $2 naf [place of capture of representative expression]
377 __ $X eng [language of representative expression]
380 __ Action and adventure films ǂa Fantasy films ǂa Musical films ǂa Fiction films ǂ2 lcgft
3XX __ monochrome $a polychrome [colour content of representative expression]
3XX __ 1.37:1 [aspect ratio of representative expression]
3XX __ 102 minutes [duration of representative expression]
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Discussion?
Questions?
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Manifestation
Statements
February 19, 202040
Robert L. Maxwell
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Manifestation statements
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Manifestation statements
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Manifestation statements
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Manifestation statements
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Manifestation statements
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Manifestation statements
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Manifestation statements
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Manifestation statements
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Manifestation statements
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Manifestation statements
Manifestation title and responsibility statement
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Manifestation statements
Manifestation publication statement
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Manifestation statements
Basic transcription:
Manifestation title and responsibility statement
Terry Pratchett WYRd SiStErS A Novel of Discworld®
Manifestation publication statement
HARPER An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Full Manifestation statement for the title page
Terry Pratchett WYRd SiStErS A Novel of Discworld® HARPER
An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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Manifestation statements:
Ingesting digital information
Basic transcription:
Manifestation title and responsibility
statement
Finally Statehood! Utah’s Struggles, 1849–1896 Edward
Leo Lyman
Manifestation publication statement
Signature Books | Salt Lake City | 2019
Full Manifestation statement for the title page
Finally Statehood! Utah’s Struggles, 1849–1896 Edward
Leo Lyman Signature Books | Salt Lake City | 2019
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Manifestation statements:
Identification
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Manifestation statements:
Early printed books
Manifestation title and responsibility statement
A DECLARATION OF THE LORD GENERALL AND HIS
COUNCELL OF OFFICERS; Shewing the Grounds and
Reasons for the Dissolution of the late PARLIAMENT.
Manifestation publication statement
LONDON, Printed by Hen: Hills and Tho: Brewster,
Printers to the Army and are to bee sold at the signe of
Sir John Old-castles in Pye-corner, and at the three
Bibles at the West-end of Pauls. 1653.
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Manifestation statements:
Early printed books
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Manifestation statements:
Early printed books
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Manifestation statements:
Can I do it in MARC?
• The cataloger can choose to apply basic transcription in MARC
right now, but is limited to the subelements in MARC
• It might be appropriate to do this
245 10 WYRd SiStErS : $b A Novel of Discworld® / $c Terry
Pratchett
• But perhaps not this
245 10 Terry Pratchett WYRd SiStErS A Novel of
Discworld®
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Manifestation statements:
Can I do it in MARC?
• There isn’t currently to be any place in MARC (or for that
matter in BIBFRAME) for a general manifestation statement of
the full title page
Terry Pratchett WYRd SiStErS A Novel of Discworld®
HARPER An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
• Or for a subelement manifestation statement that doesn’t
correspond to expected ISBD order (e.g. manifestation title and
responsibility statement)
Terry Pratchett WYRd SiStErS A Novel of Discworld®
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Manifestation statements:
Can I do it in MARC?
• The MARC Advisory Committee considered a discussion paper
(2020-DP06) at ALA Midwinter last month about manifestation
statements that is expected to return as a proposal at Annual.
• Manifestation statements will probably be recorded in a newly
defined 881 field, but not clear yet what subfields will be
approved or how manifestation statements will be recorded
within them.
• The discussion paper called for a designated subfield for each
type of RDA manifestation statement.
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Manifestation statements:
Can I do it in MARC?
Suggestions from the discussion paper
881 ## $iInformation from title page $cCROSSING THE CHASM
Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream
Customers Geoffrey A. Moore $dTHIRD EDITION $fHARPER
BUSINESS An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
881 ## $iInformation from cover $bISBN: 978-0-06-229298-8
$cCROSSING THE CHASM MARKETING AND SELLING
DISRUPTIVE PRODUCTS TO MAINSTREAM COSTUMERS WITH
ALL NEW EXAMPLES FROM 21ST-CENTURY SUCCESS STORIES
GEOFFREY A. MOORE Author of Escape Velocity $d3RD
EDITION $mA BUSINESSWEEK BESTSELLER $zUSA $19.99
$zAVAILABLE FROM HARPERCOLLINS E-BOOKS
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Manifestation statements:
Can I do it in MARC?
Do not attempt this yet!
Stay tuned for further developments
at ALA Annual 2020.
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Questions?
Comments?
Editor's Notes
Welcome to this webinar in the RDA New Concepts Series. We’ll be discussing two separate topics today, Representative Expressions and Manifestation Statements.
Some time ago the RDA Steering Committee agreed that RDA would be based on current international cataloging models, and so the revised RDA, likely to become official (though not immediately implemented) in December 2020, is based on the new IFLA Library Reference Model or LRM. The advent of LRM is the main reason for the major revamping and restructuring of RDA that has been going on over the last few years.
The original authors of FRBR took on the task of analyzing the bibliographic universe to see if it could be divided into discrete entities that could be used in an entity-relationship model. They found four bibliographic entities, Work, Expression, Manifestation, and Item (WEMI) as well as a number of other entities that could have a relationship to those four entities in one way or another. This diagram is taken from the original FRBR, but the four entities remain in the 2017 revision and consolidation of the FRBR documents known as the IFLA Library Reference Model (LRM).
In linked data terms the WEMI entities can be diagrammed using a series of RDF triples. I’ll talk a little more about RDF triples in two weeks in the webinar about nomens and appellation, but in short, an RDF triple is a statement describing an entity that has a subject (called the “domain” in RDA), a predicate (the “alternate label”) and an object (called the “range” in RDA).
This is shown in the element reference sections of these relationship elements in the beta RDA toolkit
Domain = “The RDA entity that is described by an element” (RDA glossary). I.e., this element can be used to describe the RDA entity described as its domain. Again, in linked data terms, the domain is the subject of an RDF (Resource Description Framework) triple.
Range = “The RDA element that is the value of a relationship element” (RDA glossary) I.e., this element can be related to the RDA entity described as its range. In linked data terms, the range is the object of an RDF triple.
The alternate label can be used as the predicate in an RDF triple.
This slide translates the RDA Element reference of the three elements seen on the previous slide into RDF triples.
In the first triple, Work is the domain and Expression the range; in the second the same Expression is now the Domain and Manifestation is the range; in the third the same Manifestation is now the Domain, with Item the range.
Take Alice’s adventures in Wonderland as a concrete example. Lewis Carroll’s English-language text, is an expression of the work; when this expression was published in 1865 by Macmillan it became a manifestation.
The framers of FRBR were very careful in defining the entities to ensure that they were completely distinct from each other. Attributes of one entity were not used to describe any other entity.
The elements identified as attributes of work are found in Chapters 6 and 7 of current RDA. Shown here are general attributes as well as some special attributes that apply only to musical works.
These attributes are intended only to be used in descriptions of works, not in descriptions of other entities.
The elements identified as attributes of expression are found in Chapters 6 and 7 of current RDA. Note that these are discrete: there is no overlap with the elements used to describe a work.
These attributes are intended only to be used in descriptions of expressions, not in descriptions of other entities.
There has been some reorganization of the attributes (elements) with the advent of the new LRM-based RDA. A few have been moved from Work to Expression, or Manifestation to Work. The basic principle remains the same, however: the elements are discrete: there is no overlap between the elements used to describe a work and those used to describe an expression.
This list does not include “relationship elements” or subelements of broader elements.
Renamed elements:
Category of work (was Form of work)
New elements:
Extension plan (new)
Frequency (moved from Manifestation)
ISSN (moved from Manifestation)
Key title (moved from Manifestation)
Note on metadata work (new)
Numbering of part (was 24.6, a relationship instruction)
Recording source (new, but taken from source instructions in current RDA)
Scope of validity (new)
Source consulted (from general guideline in 5.8)
Removed from work attributes:
Medium of performance
Key
Intended audience
This list does not include “relationship elements” or subelements of broader elements.
New elements:
Category of expression (new)
Extent of expression (new)
Intended audience of expression (new, replaces current Work element Intended audience)
Interactivity mode (new)
Key of expression (from Work)
Medium of performance of choreographic content (new)
Medium of performance of musical content (from Work: medium of performance – this new expression element combines and replaces current RDA “medium of performance” and “medium of performance of musical content”)
Title of expression (new)
Deleted elements:
Performer, narrator, and/or presenter [removed from RDA in 2015 but still in table of contents]
Artistic and/or technical credit [removed from RDA in 2015 but still in table of contents]
Note also that the “Details of …” elements, while in the 2020 RDA, are expected to be removed from RDA in a future revision.
Alice’s adventures in Wonderland: A novel in English for children. When people think of these characteristics they probably aren’t thinking of any particular expression.
It’s inappropriate to record language or content type for a work because it truly is incorrect—a work is a highly generalized concept and must include all expressions, including expressions in any language and in any content type. We could argue about whether or not intended audience is appropriate at the work level, but in the revised RDA a decision was made that it wasn’t.
Some examples of work-level authority records currently in the NAF.
Some examples of work-level authority records currently in the NAF.
To use this attribute we take one or more attributes from one or more expressions of a work and use them to describe the work.
It will be possible using the 2020 text of RDA to record a relationship like this one. It seems probable that most catalogers and database users would agree that the original 1865 English language text of Alice in Wonderland would be the representative expression of this work.
And here’s what it could look like in a MARC authority record for a work.
This seems reasonable for a work like Alice in Wonderland. But what about a work like The Odyssey? This is an ancient Greek poem, an adventure tale. But what is its representative expression? The “original” expression, meaning the text as it came from the original creator, does not exist; there are thousands of manuscripts, each with a slightly different text; and there are dozens of modern scholarly editions each purporting to be as close as possible to the original text. All are different expressions. Could one of these be chosen as the representative expression? Or what is the representative expression of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony? The score? Which score? A recording? Which recording?
Second, who has authority to declare one out of all possible expressions recorded in a given database as the representative expression? What if there is disagreement?
A much more practical solution to the problem is that adopted by LRM and available in the 2020 RDA: to use the new representative expression attributes and record them in the work description, or as the new Toolkit suggests we call this, the metadata description set for the work. However, before we go there, I need to point out that RDA’s implementation of representative expression doesn’t require that one expression be chosen as “the” representative expression. A relationship can be created from the work entity to more than one expression, all of which might be considered “representative” in one way or another.
Here we have the original score and the original cast recording, both expressions created in 2003. In the revised RDA, each could be considered a representative expression.
Hypothetical AAPs for the expressions. NOTE: Subfield $h is not yet implemented for encoding content type, but will be in a couple of weeks.
Another example. Here we have the original score of Little Pickle Book and a recording by the composer’s alter-ego, Peter Schickele, both expressions created in 2003. In the revised RDA, each could be considered a representative expression.
Hypothetical AAPs for the expressions. NOTE: Subfield $h is not yet implemented for encoding content type, but will be in a couple of weeks.
Note: in the revised RDA the relationship element is named “performer person.”
But to return to the point made a few slides ago, the (possibly) more practical solution to the problem adopted by LRM and available in the 2020 RDA is to use the new representative expression attributes and record them in the work description, or as the new Toolkit suggests we call this, the metadata description set for the work.
These are the available Representative expression elements in the 2020 RDA for a work with textual aspects.
These are the available Representative expression elements in the 2020 RDA for a work with moving image aspects.
These are the available Representative expression elements in the 2020 RDA for a work with sound recording aspects.
These are the available Representative expression elements in the 2020 RDA for a work with notated music aspects.
Language of representative expression might be used if the text is not considered a related but separate work from the music itself.
I point out to the RDA developers that there is no Form of musical notation of representative expression element, but it might be a useful element for notated music works.
These are the available Representative expression elements in the 2020 RDA for a work with cartographic aspects.
A metadata description set is …
We’ll talk a little more about this in two weeks in the webinar on nomens and appellations.
Reminder: this is one of the examples we used last week of an RDF triple. An RDF triple is a metadata statement. Don’t forget that the domain is the RDA entity that is described by the element; and the range is the RDA entity that is the value of the relationship. So here the domain is “Person” and the range is “Timespan.”
In case you’re wondering, Hoople, N.D. is a real place, but since it’s the location of the fictitious University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople, a university created by Schickele, I have my suspicions about the declaration on the CD that it was recorded there, but we’re going to take the information as it represents itself!
Note the two different duration of representative expression elements.
Syrinx has been published in versions for many instruments but it was originally composed for flute and is still principally associated with the flute, so this is a good example of the utility of representative expression. In this case the date of work is different from that of the representative expression, since the work was composed in 1913 but not published until 1927.
Photograph of Emmanuel Pahud playing Syrinx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZlOj6pehHM
Poster image from https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/wall-decorations/posters/wizard-oz-film-poster/id-f_1220960/
Image from https://geology.com/world/swaziland-satellite-image.shtml
Note: made up scale.
Using existing coding for the fields seems the least disruptive, but new subfield coding is probably necessary in order to distinguish between expression elements and representative expression elements.
We can take a few minutes of discussion before we go on to Manifestation Statements.
Moving on to Manifestation Statements.
Manifestation statement is a new concept in RDA.
To find what RDA has to say about manifestation statements, click on “Guidance” in the Toolkit and choose “Manifestation statements.”
Manifestation statements are data found on manifestations themselves. READ the first few lines under Principle of Representation. This section reminds us of the basic cataloging principle of representation: an entity should be represented as it represents itself.
Manifestation statements are by nature unstructured, and so RDA only offers unstructured description as a recording method. Note there is an option for normalized transcription. “Normalization” could be said to imposing some sort of structure to a transcription, but it isn’t enough in the minds of the creators of RDA to tip it over into the area of structured description. So let’s briefly look at the normalized transcription rules.
Nothing new here. We’ve been using normalized transcription rules in cataloging from time immemorial. The links are all to instructions we’re quite familiar with. Let’s just look at two, the capitalization and the punctuation guidelines.
All the same things we’re used to: capitalize the first word, capitalize proper names, include punctuation found, but omit, modify, or add punctuation for clarity. The other conventions we follow for other aspects of transcription are all there in the revised RDA instructions for normalized transcription and they will remain available for our use.
We’ll continue to be able to do this but if you think about it, normalizing data is not representing the entity as it represents itself. So the new RDA offers a method of more closely representing the manifestation as it manifests itself: basic transcription. Back to the section on Manifestation Statements we’ll now go to “Guidelines on basic transcription”
READ THROUGH THESE.
Remember, this is an option, not required.
The back slashes in instruction no. 2 are for separation of major components, not something like line breaks.
Note in section 5, these guidelines do not take into account line breaks.
You may also note that they do not take into account type size, typeface (e.g. Fraktur vs. Roman), type style (italic vs. roman), typographical ornamentation or things like lines appearing in the resource.
Returning to the main Manifestation Statements page and scrolling to the bottom we learn that there are a number of different categories of manifestation statement. We’ll begin by clicking through to the general instructions for manifestation statement.
The first thing to note is the general manifestation statement element can be used to record any statement appearing in a manifestation that is thought to be significant to users. It does not need to correspond to one of the traditional areas or elements of the description. So a transcription of the entire title page could be recorded as a manifestation statement. If you are transcribing something to include in a quoted note, that is an example of a manifestation statement. If you are transcribing the form of a name from somewhere in the manifestation to justify decisions you’ve made in authority work, that is a manifestation statement.
Second, though not shown here, if you continue to scroll down you will see, as has already been mentioned, that the only recording method available is unstructured description.
And finally, though the remainder of this presentation will focus on “basic transcription”, basic and normalized description are both legitimate choices, and both count as manifestation statements.
Returning to the main Manifestation Statements page let’s now look at a couple of the narrower elements, the title and responsibility statement and the publication statement. These can serve as examples—the other types of manifestation statement work the same way as these two.
Summarizing, the manifestation title and responsibility statement is a statement that includes titles and names of agents responsible for the content of the expression. And there are, surprise, conditions for the presence of title proper, other title information, and statement of responsibility. And the basic instruction is simply to record the information; later on we are reminded that we can use basic or normalized transcription and that we can only use an unstructured description.
Summarizing, the manifestation publication statement is a statement that includes information about the publication, release, or issuing of a manifestation. And there are, unsurprisingly, conditions for the presence of name of publisher, date of publication, and place of publication. And the basic instruction is simply to record the information; later on we are reminded that we can use basic or normalized transcription and that we can only use an unstructured description.
Keeping this in mind, as an aside, if you click through to the “publication statement” element in the first condition you might see that there are some options there for recording the publication statement in traditional order, place of publication, name of publisher, date of publication. I draw your attention, however, to the fact that this is under “recording a structured description” for the publication statement element. Manifestation statements are always unstructured descriptions. A manifestation publication statement (as opposed to a “publication statement”, a different element) will always be recorded in exactly the order found. OK, nobody confused anymore, right?
Here’s an example.
Note there is no provision for reproducing the line between Harper and the information about HarperCollinsPublishers.
This type of transcription is most likely to be used when ingesting machine-produced metadata, e.g. OCR.
Here’s an example of a possible application of the manifestation statement concept for ingesting digital information. This is the title page of a galley from a recent eCIP (cataloging in publication) application. Now as a matter of fact there is a cataloging program that takes this digital information and transforms it into “normal” looking cataloging data for CIP catalogers. But if I were doing this manually and was in a hurry I could chose to ingest the information using the RDA basic transcription for manifestation statement by simply copying and pasting the information with no further manipulation.
Best practices have not been worked out for manifestation statements yet since nobody has any extended experience with them, so a question arises on this particular transcription for which there isn’t currently an answer. Should the vertical bar between the parts of the publication statement be included? It is not a mark of punctuation; on the other hand it is a symbol that is available in my character set. Further, when I directly ingested the data using copy and paste it pasted right into my manifestation publication statement. So I left it. But future best practices might direct us to omit this sort of thing. (If so, however, I point out that having to go in and delete stuff sort of defeats the purpose, at least if of the purposes is achieving greater efficiencies for catalogers.) (Note another peripheral problem here – that particular symbol is in probably everybody’s character set, but it happens to be prohibited for use in transcriptions in MARC, possibly because some systems use it as the subfield marker. So there you are …)
This is an example of a case where the manifestation statement concept could be useful for identification. Music publications, especially publications of sheet music like this, are notorious for absence of or misleading information about aspects of the publication, especially date. These two pieces of music each bear the copyright date 1978 and no formal publication date; but the one on the right is actually a different manifestation from about 1995. There are a few other differences that could be used to distinguish, but one obvious distinction is aspects of the typography, which could be brought out by using basic transcription. This could be useful, for example, for a copy cataloger coming to a set of records in OCLC and who might be confused about which record represents the piece in hand.
The manifestation title and responsibility statement does an admirable job here distinguishing between the two manifestations, although there are also a few other elements that distinguish.
Another case where the manifestation statement concept could be welcome is with the description of early printed books. Basic transcription lends itself to this type of description. An aside before we continue. Books from this period include letter forms that aren’t used nowadays, including the long “s”, which you can see in the word “Reasons” and “Dissolution”, as well as several places in the publication statement. These look a little bit like an “f” but they are not “f”s and should never be so transcribed. They are simply a form of the letter “s” used in certain positions within a word. Even in basic transcription they should be transcribed with an “s”.
Bibliographers of early printed books often distinguish between issues or states of books by the layout of type, including capitalization, punctuation, line breaks, etc., on title pages and other places within the book. This is possible because when such a book was produced sometimes the printer had to go back and reset a page—perhaps he got interrupted, or discovered a mistake when the job was part way through. Because it was expensive to trash what had already been done and start over, printers often simply made the correction and then continued the production of the book—so there wound up being more than one version of the book. Since RDA doesn’t recognize the concepts of issue and state, which is what these different versions might be called, in the RDA/LRM model we could say that these were different manifestations. But how to distinguish between them? Basic transcription of one or more manifestation statements can help.
As a matter of fact this particular book does exist in two different versions, as evidenced by the title pages:
If you look carefully, you will see that when the printer reset the title page, for whatever reason, the new version was not quite the same as the first. I don’t know the exact order of these two title pages from 1653, but let’s assume the one on the left is the first. When it was reset, the word “councell” was spelled with one less “l” on the sixth line; the word “for” in the line “Shewing the grounds and reasons …” moved to the next line, and “dissolution” is capitalized on the first but not on the second. The typographical ornaments are different. London has a comma after it in the first publication statement, no comma in the second. Looking further at that publication statement, the one on the left has five lines, the one on the right has four. Otherwise the wording is identical, except the spelling of “bee” vs “be” in the phrase “are to be sold” ; the spelling of the word “sign” ; and the hyphenation of “West-end”. Capitalization throughout is identical. So in this case the application of basic transcription in a manifestation statement would be useful, but not as helpful as it could be because it does not take into account line breaks, which is the main thing that distinguishes these two title pages.
Here is another example of an early printed book that exists in two nearly identical manifestations, distinguished by the layout of the title page. Sorry the one is damaged, I couldn’t find an image of an undamaged exemplar.
I direct your attention to the differences. The word “English” on the seventh line is in all caps and italicized on the left; it is in large and small caps and not italicized on the right; three lines down the word “Refute” is split with the next line on the right, but not on the left; Zachary Coke is given in all caps on the left (large and small caps—bst practices might dictate that these be transcribed as capitals and minuscule letters, but once again, this has yet to be developed); in any case the name is clearly not in all caps on the right, and it is italicized; the word “Gent” is italicized on the left but not on the right, and the version on the right adds “of Grays-Inn” The publication statement, unless I missed something, is identical between the two except the word “sign” in the second to last line is capitalized in the version to the right.
Again, using the basic transcription in a manifestation statement would be quite useful to a rare materials cataloger, but it fails to distinguish between these two as well as it could. The only differences in the two RDA basic transcriptions would be “Zachary Coke”, which would be given in all capital letters for the title page on the left (plus the addition of his qualification for the one on the right), and the word “Sign” in the publication statement. It might be useful to allow for transcription of the line breaks and type styles (italic, large and small caps), which would really zero in on the differences between these two, if we’re interested in making quasi-facsimile surrogates in our catalog records—which would indeed be useful to distinguish between manifestations or versions in cases like these. It has also been pointed out that inclusion of a picture of the title pages would suffice for this purpose, and that’s true, but it isn’t something we’re generally doing at the moment.
In any case these are minor quibbles for possible consideration for future RDA development. The introduction of the concepts of Manifestation Statement and Basic Transcription will bring great benefits to many aspects of our description of resources.
As long as we’re tied to ISBD order and punctuation we probably will need to respect that. But I don’t see any reason why a cataloger couldn’t apply the Guidelines on basic transcription to individual elements. Current PCC/LC policy says to drop the registered trademark symbol, but in the absence of a policy like that there’s no reason why it couldn’t be included in a MARC scenario.
Here are some suggested ways of recording manifestation statements in MARC
This one has proposed subfield coding—probably not the final coding when the proposal is discussed at Annual.
This proposed version labels the source of the information. (Some of the information comes from the back cover, not shown here.)
This proposed version labels the source of the information.