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4 years ago Hi Ann, Thanks for taking the time to look through this.
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Have changed to read:
If a manifestation has no title, and none can be found in any other sources, devise a brief title, that includes: a)The name of the interviewee b) The form (e.g. oral history interview)
If considered important, also include: d) the name of the interviewer (if not already evident from the record hierarchy) e) The date of the interview f) a reference to any associated project ( (if not already evident from the record hierarchy)
2. Agree - apologies; I was looking at the abbreviations for fps and ips as a reference, which do not include full stops. I have amended.
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Not sure I understand what you mean here. RDA provides the following examples at 3.4.1.7.5.
_For other types of files (e.g., audio files, video files, data files), specify the number of files. Use one or more terms listed at 3.19.2.3 to indicate a file type.
EXAMPLE
- 1 online resource (2 video files)
- 1 online resource (1 program file)
- 1 online resource (2 audio files, 1 video file)_
The RDA definition of online is: A carrier type consisting of a digital resource accessed by means of hardware and software connections to a communications network.
The term 'distributed via the Internet' was intended as a coverall for material published online but also files sent to the Library via email. Suzette and I discussed this previously, and we decided that if the Library discarded the carrier, then the resource was necessarily 'online', as the file can only be accessed by way of a networked computer, regardless whether this is public or not.
I have not made this very clear in the template and I have changed this to read:
The term 'online resource' should only be applied to material that is primarily accessed via a networked computer. For example, media files that have been distributed via the internet or email, or files whose carrier type has been discarded and are now only available for access via a networked computer.
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Have amended - file characteristics was confused with file size.
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Have amended per agreements in today's meeting.
Cheers, Glenn
AnnP007
Suzette-B
Meredith007
Some comments and suggestions on the Adlib - Oral History Template and associated Oral History Creator / Author Artist Breakdown
title. Advice is to devise a brief title to include name of interviewee, form (e.g. oral history interview) and date of interview. However inclusion of the date of interview is not supported by RDA (although it is in IASA and OH Cataloguing Manual). I would suggest that inclusion of the date should not be mandatory unless for the purposes of distinguishing between otherwise identical titles e.g. for interviews with an interviewee conducted on separate occasions. I would agree that it is important to provide the date of an oral history interview, but this the function of the date field. To make a comparison with another format, the date of a photograph with the title ‘View of Sydney Harbour’ is an important component of its metadata but will not usually be included in the title. The OH Cataloguing Manual is extremely prescriptive in its instructions (and was also published over 20 years ago) and while it offers some valuable advice I would prefer to rely on RDA in areas where DACS does not provide enough detail.
dimension.free. Advice is ‘Do not place full stops after abbreviations unless to indicate the end of the statement’. RDA Appendix B.7 is given as the source, however this does include full stops after every abbreviation. I would suggest that, for consistency with normal practice, the forms used should be ‘hr’ and ‘min.’ and where necessary, ‘sec.’. I would also suggest that seconds should usually be rounded to the closest minute, unless the duration is under one minute, in line with previous practice.
dimension.free. I’m not sure where audio files appear in the template (when they are not a part of an online resource). I’m thinking of when they might be emailed to the Library as an attachment or given on a USB stick, for example. We don’t want to record the extent as 1 [physical carrier] but as the number of audio files.
dimension.free and dimension.free.phys_characteristics. I think some of these have been transposed in the template, so a few of the rows might need amending.
creator – Oral History Creator/Author Artist breakdown. ‘For a single oral history, or a single interview recorded over a number of sessions… No Creator entry’ AND ‘For a collection of oral histories where all interviews are conducted by the same interviewer… Interviewer is Creator’. I can’t see that there is a valid reason not to have a creator entry for a single interview – whether it is the interviewer or interviewee could be debated and both seem to be supported by RDA Appendix I 1.2.1. I also have trouble with the concept of a project being the creator – is there a source for this?