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OLAC Best Practice for Manifestation

Prerecording

Minimum description

Effective description

Entity boundary

Recording

Online resources

Recording an unstructured description

Recording a structured description

Recording an identifier

Recording an IRI

Elements

  • accessibility content
  • applied material
  • base material
  • broadcast standard
  • carrier type
  • colour content
  • configuration of playback channels
  • copyright date
  • date of distribution
  • date of manufacture
  • date of production
  • date of publication
  • designation of edition
  • designation of named revision of edition
  • digital file characteristic
  • dimensions
  • distribution statement
  • edition statement
  • encoding format
  • equipment or system requirement
  • expression manifested
  • extent of manifestation
  • file type
  • identifier for manifestation
  • layout
  • manufacture statement
  • media type
  • mode of issuance
  • name of agent of manifestation
  • name of distributor
  • name of manufacturer
  • name of producer
  • name of publisher
  • note on extent of manifestation
  • note on issue or part or iteration used as basis for identification of manifestation
  • note on manifestation
  • note on statement of responsibility
  • note on title
  • numbering within sequence
  • other title information
  • parallel title proper
  • place of distribution
  • place of manufacture
  • place of production
  • place of publication
  • production method
  • production statement
  • projection characteristic of motion picture film
  • publication statement
  • recording medium
  • regional encoding
  • related agent of manifestation
  • related expression of manifestation
  • related manifestation of manifestation
  • related work of manifestation
  • resolution
  • restriction on access to manifestation
  • restriction on use of manifestation
  • series statement
  • sound characteristic
  • sound content
  • special playback characteristic
  • statement of responsibility
  • statement of responsibility relating to title proper
  • title of manifestation
  • title of series
  • title proper
  • type of recording
  • Uniform Resource Locator
  • variant title of manifestation
  • video characteristic
  • video format

Document Date: 2026/02/06
Document: https://access.rdatoolkit.org/en-US_ala-a49e8c6e-97e3-35df-8d5a-803b29466781

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