describedBy.descriptionLevel.label seems unrelated?

[kshepherd]

Many records have a describedBy section which includes some license information. There is a descriptionLevel property in here which I don't understand, and the label seems to refer to a general vocabulary classification rather than anything to do with the record in question.

For instance a lot of Person records have 3rd level description levels in this section, which is always labelled "Religion". Some other records have level 1 (Allgemeines, Interdisziplinäre Allgemeinwörter) or level 6 (Kultur, Erziehung, Bildung, Wissenschaft)

  "describedBy" : {
    "id" : "https://d-nb.info/gnd/1026513340/about",
    "license" : {
      "id" : "http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
      "label" : "http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"
    },
    "dateModified" : "2013-04-17T00:47:23.000",
    "descriptionLevel" : {
      "id" : "https://d-nb.info/standards/vocab/gnd/description-level#3",
      "label" : "Religion"
    }
  },

Briefly, what does descriptionLevel indicate here? If the label should not apply or is incorrect, can it be removed or made more generic to describe what the ID really represents?

[acka47]

Thanks for the report , @kshepherd . We have introduced descriptionLevel in the context of #300 (unfortunately in German). It is based on information from MARC 042 a.

You are correct that – while the id is correct – the labels are added from another vocabulary, the GND Sachgruppen. We will fix this ASAP so that the labels will read "Description Level 1", "Description Level 2" etc. (or the German "Katalogisierungslevel") as in https://d-nb.info/standards/vocab/gnd/description-level.

[fsteeg]

Deployed to production, applies to new transformations / updates. See: https://lobid.org/gnd/search?q=describedBy.descriptionLevel.label:Katalogisierungslevel&format=json