LC-PCC policy statements for colour content

LC/PCC practice: For subordinate materials (e.g., accompanying materials, kits, etc.), use cataloger's judgment when a detailed description of carrier characteristics is desired.

PCC practice: Recommended element for rare atlases, rare books, and rare music, when applicable and can be determined.

LC practice: If recording colour content, in most cases use a substitute term (e.g., color), or record a phrase such as "some color" or "chiefly color" as details of colour content.

LC/PCC practice: See also the related element Expression: colour

LC practice: Apply the option. If recording colour content, in most cases use a substitute term (e.g., color).

PCC practice: Apply the option.

LC practice: Cataloger's judgment. Record a phrase such as "some color" or "chiefly color" as details of colour content in an unstructured description of the textual description.

PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment.

LC/PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment.

LC practice: Do not apply the option.

PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment.

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option if specifically required by policy or the metadata system, as stated in the Metadata Guidance documentation.

LC practice: Apply the option. If recording colour content, in most cases use a substitute term (e.g., color).

PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment.

LC/PCC practice: Do not apply the option.

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option for cartographic resources, graphic materials, moving images, rare cartographic resources, and rare graphics, when applicable and can be determined. See the Metadata Guidance documents for more details.

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option if specifically required by policy or the metadata system, as stated in the Metadata Guidance documentation.

LC/PCC practice: Do not apply the 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.