titleType vocab recommendations and definitions

[AllisonAnn]

I wrote/compiled this as best practice for WPR/WPT a few years ago, It's worth considering. I also used this same titleType list for identifying/recording title types at the Warhol museum, for the Art, Archives, and Film/Video collections. They are very versatile, and applicable to just about any type of object/cataloguing.

The terms are recommended titleType terms from AACR2 and RDA, although the list is non-exhaustive. The definitions were taken/modified from these sources. I only chose terms that I knew we would use locally.

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Title type refers to the nature of the title (and/or its origin). It is not for indicating object format, object name, or object type, (although the cataloger may choose to embed this information, as part of a supplied title).

titleType recommendation: Collective | Parallel | Series | Subseries | Supplied | Title proper | Variant

• Collective [RDA/AACR2] – A title proper that is an inclusive title for a record describing several works, or, an item belonging to such a group. Example: Wisconsin School of the Air, Wisconsin College of the Air. RDA calls this “Conventional collective title”
• Parallel [RDA/AACR2] – The title proper in another language and/or script
• Series [RDA/AACR2] - A group of separate items related to one another by the fact that each item bears, in addition to its own title proper, a collective [series] title applying to the group as a whole. Individual items may or may not be numbered. Example: Let’s draw, Journeys in music land, Accent on living, etc. RDA refers to this as “Series title proper”.
• Subseries [RDA/AACR2] – A series within a series. Its title may or may not be dependent on the title of the main series. Examples: Accent on living: Yarns of yesteryear. RDA refers to this as “Subseries title proper”.
• Supplied [RDA/AACR2] – A title supplied by the cataloguer for an item that has no title proper on the chief source of information. It may be taken from elsewhere on the item itself (see also Markings/Inscriptions), from a reference source, or composed by the cataloger. RDA refers to this as “Devised title”.
• Title proper [RDA/AACR2] – The chief name of an item, including any alternative title, but excluding parallel titles and other title information, or, the title supplied by the maker/creator/publisher (artist, author, producer, publisher, committee, etc.). If published printed material, this title can be found on the title page of the resource.
• Variant [RDA] – A title or form of title by which a work is known that differs from the title or form of title chosen as the preferred title for the work. Examples: Earlier or Later titles, misspelled, misidentified, or misnamed titles, former titles, etc. This added information (earlier, later, former, etc.) should be placed in the notes field (if you decide not to include these terms as distinct Title Types).

[marymiller61]

Two that I use most commonly are Segment and Episode. I would like to see those added. The current "Title" is a mess and seems to intend to describe object format/genre and not object name.

[jolene2323]

We use the terms "series" "episode" and "item". We use "item" because no other word in the vocabulary represents part of a program. Our records come from a legacy catalog in which each record represents a physical item--the reel the program was recorded onto. So each reel=1 record. In many cases the programs are split onto 2 reels so there is a record for each part of the program. "Part" is not in the title type vocabulary, nor in the AssetType vocabulary (which I will bring up elsewhere), and these are not "segments". So, we've settle on "item" to represent part as a sort of placeholder until something better comes along. I don't think these would qualify as "subseries" either. Any idea for a better solution?

[AllisonAnn]

I've been using the term/concept of "Label" for an Instantiation title, and
defining the title types at a more formal level at the Intellectual
content/parent level (Series, Subseries, Title proper (program title)...)

Using label as type for instantiationTitle (which is a new recommended, but
as yet not adopted pbcore element), I would enter the program title for a
item split across multiple tapes as follows:

Intellectual content title : Accent on living: Delicious holiday recipes
InstantiationTitle (type = label) : Delicious holiday recipes, tape 1
InstantiationTitle (type = label) : Delicious holiday recipes, tape 2

Similarly, if my intellectual content record described a program in
multiple parts, and I wanted to just have a single intellectual content
record for the program (say, an old Chapter a day title for which I had
very little broadcast history or date created information about), I would
link all existing chapters at the instantiation level, and use "label" as
type for each tape/reel:

Intellectual content title : Chapter a day: Pride and prejudice
InstantiationTitle (type = label) : Pride and prejudice, chapter 1
InstantiationTitle (type = label) : Pride and prejudice, chapter 2
etc.

You could also use "Item" in this way.

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 1:00 PM, jolene2323 notifications@github.com
wrote:

We use the terms "series" "episode" and "item". We use "item" because no
other word in the vocabulary represents part of a program. Our records come
from a legacy catalog in which each record represents a physical item--the
reel the program was recorded onto. So each reel=1 record. In many cases
the programs are split onto 2 reels so there is a record for each part of
the program. "Part" is not in the title type vocabulary, nor in the
AssetType vocabulary (which I will bring up elsewhere), and these are not
"segments". So, we've settle on "item" to represent part as a sort of
placeholder until something better comes along. I don't think these would
qualify as "subseries" either. Any idea for a better solution?

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[jolene2323]

Thanks for your message. I'm going to re-read it a few times to make sure I'm absorbing it. But in the meantime, can you tell me what other "types" of InstantiationTitles there might be, and which issue this is that you're referencing? Thanks!

[jolene2323]

I apologize if perhaps this is the wrong venue for me to be asking this, but I figure I'll give it a shot. Unfortunately, since each of my parts is it's own record at, I believe, the Intellectual content record level, I can't link them at the instantiation level. The instantiations for each of these parts is either the physical tapes or the CD. Is umbrella-ing these two parts in a new parent?-type record my only possible solution?