Monday, November 30, 2009

Here is a permanent link to the in-progress beta version of our database; it includes about fifteen of the most interesting facets and is populated with around 200 (out of a future 3,000 in Phase I) records:
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/78359

Thursday, October 1, 2009

catalogers' bibliographic record checklist

Checklist

General Information (008 field, 100 field) - 100 maybe not present

MARC Stuff [ ]
Field 008: General/Illustrations addition
Field 008: Correction check

Author Based on Authority [ ]
Field 100: Authorship Authority check

Title Page Information (245, 246, 250, 260) - 250, 260 maybe not present

MARC Title [ ]
Field 245: Typographical Error check

Our Title [ ]
Field 246a: Write title-page (everything)
Field 246-2: Mark all nouns subfield 2
Field 246-3: Mark all adjectives subfield 3
Field 246-4: Mark all place name proper nouns subfield 4. Use subfield 4 markers like quotations around proper nouns.
Field 246-5: Mark all person-name proper nouns subfield 5. Use subfield 5 markers like quotations around proper nouns.
Field 246-7: Mark all objects subfield 7 This supercedes subfield 2 markers.
Field 246-g: Mark title page extent: Full or Half Half titles precede full titles
Field 246-x: Mark title page priority: Main or Other
Field 246-d: Mark title page print-type: Letter-press, Manuscript, or Other
Field 246-v: Write volume information

Edition Statement [ ]
Field 250: Write edition statement. Use possessive numericals (1st, 2nd, 3rd). Write out full word "edition". If revised, used "Rev."

Publication and Printer Information [ ]
Field 260a: Write place of publication
Field 260b: Write publisher information
Field 260c: Write publication date
Field 260f: Write printer information
Field 260v: Write volume information as appears

Physical Detail Information (300)

Physical Detail Information [ ]
Field 300: Check for physical detail/extent information. If not present, write.
Field 300x: Write book format. Use full word. "Folio" "Quarto" "Octavo" "Duodecimo"
Field 300z: Write work qualifiers

Detail Information (500, 505, 520, 540, 591, 592, 593, 594, 595, 596, 599, 656) - 500, 504, 505, 520, 591, 593, 594, 595, 596, 599, 656 maybe not present)

General Notes Field [ ]
Field 500: WRITE GENERAL NOTES.

Index Information [ ]
Field 504: Write indexical information. Index information is bibliographical in nature. If it is not bibliographical in nature, it deserves a Field 500 note.

Table of Contents Transcription [ ]
Field 505: Write table of contents

Paratextual Essay Information [ ]
Field 520a: Write paratextual essay classification. This is a non-textual classification at cataloguers discretion. Example: Dedication, To the reader, Poem, Post-script, Preface. List all new classifications/descriptions.
Field 520b: Write paratextual essay heading as appears in work . This is the transcription of the paratext's title. If no title is present, mark untitled.
Field 520-2: Mark all nouns subfield 2
Field 520-3: Mark all adjectives subfield 3
Field 520-4: Mark all place name proper nouns subfield 4. Use subfield 4 markers like quotations around proper nouns.
Field 520-5: Mark all person-name proper nouns subfield 5. Use subfield 5 markers like quotations around proper nouns.
Field 520-7: Mark all objects subfield 7 This supercedes subfield 2 markers.
Field 520c: Write location of paratextual essay in book.
Field 520-4: Write volume information
Field 520x: Note field

Epigraph Information [ ]
591a: Transcribe epigraph
591b: Find and write source of epigraph
591c: Find and write author of epigraph
591d: Write location of epigraph
591v: Write volume information

Narrative Form Information [ ]
592a: Dominant narrative form (general, overarching)
592b: "Contains" field This is what the narrative form contains that is not already implied by the generic classification in 592a (?)
592x: General note field

Subscriber's List Information [ ]
593a: Transcribe subscriber's list
593c: Note field

Inscription Information [ ]
594a: Transcribe inscription
594c: Note field

Marginalia Information [ ]
595a: Write medium of marginalia (ink, pencil, etc.)
595c: Classify content of marginalia (words, drawings, editorials)
595d: Note field

Translation Claim Information [ ]
596a: Classify type of translation claim (translation, abridgement, adaptation)
596b: Write location of claim
596c: Write direct source This is the language (or sourced version) closest in time to the current version before you. For example, if a book is translated from the original Chinese, to the French, to the English, French is the direct source language. Chinese is the indirect source language.
596d: Write indirect source
595e: Transcribe translation claim

Authorship of Text Claim, Internal to Text or Paratext (?) [ ]
599a: Classify authorship claim type (author)
599-1: Write name of the claiming author, if present
599-2: Transcribe phrase of authorship claim
599-3: Write location of authorship claim
599v: Note field
599-5: Gender claim (Male/Female/Unknown - Unknown should not be the same as None (?))

Advertisement Information [ ]
656a: Classify genre of advertised material
656b: Write location of advertisement
656c: Write relationship of advertised material to textual material (ex: same publisher, same author, etc.)

Miscellaneous Outside Authority Information (710, 793, 856)

Corporate Publisher/Printer Information [ ]
710a: Check/write corporate name of publisher/printer
710-4: Write status of publisher/printer (ex: printed for, published by)

Originating Work Information [ ]
793a: Write original title
793b: Write date of original
793c: Write language of original
793d: Write material form of original
793e: Write original text as found in work (?)

Open-Access Link [ ]
856a: Link to full text (do not change!)
856b: Find open-access link to full text (URL)