OLAC Best Practice for capture information
Prerecording
Prerecording
Record when readily available for videodiscs, streaming video, and streaming audio.
Recording
Option
Apply the option. Prefer more specific elements (Expression: place of capture and Expression: date of capture) for structured descriptions.
Recording an unstructured description
Recording an unstructured description
Cataloger's judgment. Optionally record capture information in unformatted/free text format with further details (in addition to date and place of capture) if considered to be helpful to users.
Recording a structured description
Recording an identifier
Recording an IRI
Document Date: 2026/02/06
Document: https://access.rdatoolkit.org/en-US_ala-8c240918-241f-33ab-80fd-ac575b161d3d