LC-PCC policy statements for term of rank or honour or office
Prerecording
Prerecording
LC/PCC Core for terms that indicate royalty, nobility, or ecclesiastical rank or office; for terms of address for persons of religious vocation; and in cases of conflict.
LC/PCC practice: See the Metadata Guidance documentation: Persons.
Option
LC/PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment.
Recording
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Terms of rank of royalty
Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Person with the highest royal status within a state or people
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option. Record the person’s title and the name of the state or people in English.
Consorts of royal persons
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option. Record the title of the consort in English.
Children and grandchildren of royal persons
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option. If the child or grandchild is known only as Prince or Princess or a similar title, without a territorial designation, record that title. Follow it by: a) another title associated with the name or b) daughter of, son of, granddaughter of, or grandson of the preferred name for the parent or grandparent and his or her title. Record the title in English.
Popes
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Bishops, etc.
Bishops, etc.
LC/PCC practice: Record the title and the name of the see in English.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option. Record the title in English.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Other persons of religious vocation
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Other term of rank, honour, or office
Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Recording a structured description
Option
LC/PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment.
Option
LC/PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment.
Recording an identifier
Option
LC/PCC practice: If a local encoding scheme is able to record the value of an element as an identifier or IRI, use judgment in applying the recording method.
Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option if specifically required by policy or the metadata system, as stated in the Metadata Guidance documentation.
Recording an IRI
Option
LC/PCC practice: If a local encoding scheme is able to record the value of an element as an identifier or IRI, use judgment in applying the recording method.
Document Date: 2025/03/25
Document: https://access.rdatoolkit.org/en-US_ala-1cecb29c-833a-3279-8b89-6300c454a6f2