OLAC Best Practice for summarization of content

Prerecording

Recording

Option

Apply the option. Record if considered important.

Recording an unstructured description

Provide a brief summary of content when needed to support user tasks. If the summary is copied verbatim from the manifestation or an external source, enclose it in quotation marks and attribute the source of the summary.

Recording a structured description

Optionally, provide links to related resources that summarize the content as Manifestation: related manifestation of manifestation.

Recording an identifier

Recording an IRI

Document Date: 2026/02/06
Document: https://access.rdatoolkit.org/en-US_ala-378e1bd5-7175-3b14-b06d-fdc0c6c48744