Music Library Association Best Practices for statement of responsibility
Prerecording
Prerecording
Routinely record the element. For statements that name agents associated with embodied works or expressions but do not fit into any of the listed categories of statement of responsibility, see Manifestation: note on statement of responsibility.
LC/PCC Core. Manifestation: statement of responsibility relating to title proper is a core subelement. See other subelements of statement of responsibility for coreness pertaining to the resource being described.
LC/PCC practice: For monographs, only the first recorded statement of responsibility relating to title proper is an LC/PCC requirement, but catalogers are encouraged to transcribe as Manifestation: statement of responsibility or Manifestation: note on statement of responsibility any other statements of responsibility that aid in resource discovery, identification, and selection.
LC/PCC practice: See the Metadata Guidance documentation: Manifestation elements.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment.
Condition Option
Apply the option for editors, arrangers, translators, solo performers, conductors, and performing ensembles in manifestations of notated or performed music. For other types of agent associated with expressions: Cataloger's judgment.
If feasible, also record structured descriptions (that is, authorized access points) for Expression: creator agent of expression for agents associated with expressions named in a Manifestation: note on statement of responsibility. Generally do not give access points for members of a performing ensemble if already giving an access point for the ensemble.
Condition Option
Apply the option for each work if feasible and if deemed useful for identification or access.
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option to the most prominent or first named of the works.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Recording
Recording an unstructured description
Option
LC/PCC practice: Do not apply the option.
Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option. Optionally, transcribe the statement of responsibility as given on the source of information.
LC/PCC practice: For sources of information for transcription, see the instructions at Guidance: Data provenance: Recording a source of metadata that is a manifestation being described.
Option
LC/PCC practice: Do not apply the option.
Option
LC/PCC practice: In most cases, do not apply the option. Essential information that should not be omitted includes words or phrases that are considered part of a person's name or provide identifying elements often used in an authorized access point. (For example, terms indicating a familial relationship such as "Jr." or a title of nobility such as "Duke of Norfolk.")
Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Statements that name two or more agents
Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: In most cases, do not apply the option. When the option is applied, indicate the information omitted according to the standard pattern: "[and six others]."
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Two or more statements of responsibility
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Condition Option
Apply the option if deemed useful for identification or selection. Generally, give statements from prominent sources (e.g., cover, caption, title page verso) before statements from other sources. If giving statements from outside the resource, record them after statements from within the resource and enclose them in square brackets to indicate they come from a source outside the manifestation itself.
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Clarification of role
Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option. Supply the value in square brackets.
Noun phrases occurring with a statement of responsibility
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Data provenance
Option
LC/PCC practice: Do not apply the option.
Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply this option if 1) the metadata has been taken from a source other than the manifestation being described and there is a requirement to record that source OR 2) if directed to do so by other LC/PCC documentation.
Recording a structured description
Recording an identifier
Recording an IRI
Document Date: 2024/09/21
Document: https://access.rdatoolkit.org/en-US_ala-50397442-bc21-3b43-a598-fa89e81dfe69