LC-PCC policy statements for category of work

LC/PCC Core when needed to differentiate a work from another work with the same title or from the name of an agent.

LC practice: For archival moving image materials, it is strongly encouraged to include a value for category of work regardless of conflict.

LC/PCC practice: See the Metadata Guidance documentation: Works.

LC/PCC practice: See the Metadata Guidance documentation: Series/subseries: Work: category of work.

LC/PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment.

LC/PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment.

LC/PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment.

LC/PCC practice: If a cataloger chooses to record this information in a metadata description set, prefer to record a term from a vocabulary encoding scheme (e.g., LCGFT, LCSH, or MeSH) as appropriate to the type information recorded. For consistency, capitalize the first word of each term.

LC/PCC practice: See the Metadata Guidance documentation: Series/subseries: Work: category of work.

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: Cataloger's judgment.

LC/PCC practice: If a cataloger chooses to record this information in a metadata description set, and no term from a preferred vocabulary encoding scheme is available, the cataloger may devise a term based on the resource. For consistency, capitalize the first word of each term.

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.

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: 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.