GenreForm Headings for Moving Images

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Genre/Form Headings for Moving Images

• Janis L. Young
• for
• LC CPSO

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Agenda

• General objectives of the genre/form heading
  projects
• Background for the moving image project
• Form of headings
• Application of headings
• Timeline

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Objective 1

• To assist in retrieval by providing access points
  for the forms and genres of expressions, in
  addition to headings describing subject content

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Objective 2

• To create a system of authority records that
• Permits future development and maintenance by LC
  and eventually by other libraries, patterned
  after the routines established for LCSH as a
  whole
• Supports automatic validation of headings
  assigned to bibliographic records

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Objective 3

• To determine the issues that will arise in the
  creation and use of such thesauri, in order to
  determine whether to expand the project beyond
  moving images, recorded sound, and musical
  compositions

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Rationale for project order

• The moving images project is the first to go into
  production
• LCs Motion Picture/Broadcasting/Recorded Sound
  Division (MBRS) approached CPSO in 2003
• MBRS wants a system that can be maintained MIGFG
  has no editorial staff
• The moving image genre/form terms constitute a
  small, defined subgroup in LCSH
• This small project will help us identify and
  solve problems that we will encounter with larger
  projects

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Rationale for project order

• Small, defined?
• All applicable headings currently coded with MARC
  tag 150 are NTs of Motion pictures, Television
  programs, or Video recordings
• MIGFG includes ca. 150 terms, many of which are
  already represented in LCSH
• Other reference sources, particularly Moving
  Image Materials Genre Terms (MIMs), will be
  consulted as necessary and appropriate

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Form of headings

• Goal is to keep the genre/form headings as
  closely in synch with topical headings as
  possible
• To aid collocation
• To assist users
• Exceptions may be made as warranted, on a
  case-by-case basis

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Form of headings

• If LCSH already includes a heading
• For cases in which the 150 and 155 headings are
  identical, the scope of the two headings will
  also be identical
• The hierarchical structure will generally be
  retained, with the exception of the top terms
• The goal is to have a 155 for every 150 topical
  genre/form heading in LCSH

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Form of headings

• If LCSH does not already include the heading
• An appropriate genre/form heading will be
  constructed based on MIGFG, MIMs, or other
  thesauri

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Form of headings

• Problems with individual headings will be
  resolved on a case-by-case basis
• Examples of solutions
• The scope of the topical heading may be altered
• The wording of the genre/form heading may be
  altered so that the topical and genre/form
  headings are not in conflict
• References may be removed from existing headings
  and established as headings in their own right

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Form of headings

• No geographic subdivision
• Do not want to duplicate what is found elsewhere
  in the record
• What would it mean?
• Setting
• Place of production
• Place of distribution

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Form of headings

• No provision for language
• Not strictly part of the genre
• Language is already provided for in the
  descriptive elements

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Form of headings

• Original release of the work
• Intent is to provide genre/form access to the
  expression, not to the manifestation (i.e., the
  intellectual or artistic expression of a work,
  not its physical carrier (VHS, DVD, electronic,
  etc.))

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Form of headings

• Should films and videos be combined into one
  heading?
• Horror films instead of Horror films and Horror
  videos (i.e., broaden the meaning of the word
  film)
• Use explicit references or scope notes to explain
  the combination?

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Application

• Apply as many genre/form headings as desired
• Apply headings from multiple levels of hierarchy
  if desired
• Always apply Fiction films or Nonfiction films?

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Delivery of records

• Genre/form terms will appear in a separate
  section in the front of volume 1 of the printed
  LCSH (the Big Red Books)
• Genre/form terms will have their own entry point
  on the main menu of Classification Web

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Updating the thesaurus

• Currently, two LC catalogers are making all of
  the records
• After a test period, other LC and PCC catalogers
  will be invited to make proposal submissions
• The proposal and approval mechanisms employed for
  other LCSH headings will be employed for
  genre/form headings

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Timeline Completed steps

• 2003 MBRS approached CPSO
• 2006 CPSO announced the moving images project
• May 4, 2007 CDS announced the upcoming planned
  release of records
• May 11, 2007 CPSO posted a draft of H1913,
  Moving Image Genre/Form Headings, for public
  comment
• June 12, 2007 CPSO posted proposed headings for
  public comment

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Timeline Future plans

• June 22-26 CPSO is holding information sessions
  at ALA and gathering comments
• July-August H1913 will be revised
• August Some records will appear on (a)
  Tentative Weekly List(s)
• September 3 or later The first group of records
  will be distributed through CDS
• TBD An announcement will be made that SACO
  participants are welcome to submit proposals

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Questions and comments?

• Please e-mail Janis Young at jayo_at_loc.gov