LC-PCC policy statements for media type
Prerecording
Prerecording
LC/PCC Core.
LC/PCC practice: See policy statement under Guidance: Diachronic works. Transformation boundaries for instructions on changes to media type for diachronic works.
Recording
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment.
Recording an unstructured description
Option
LC/PCC practice: Do not apply the option.
Option
LC/PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Do not apply the option.
Recording a structured description
Option
LC/PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment. Apply the option instead of or in addition to applying the option to record a term from another appropriate vocabulary encoding scheme.
Option
LC/PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment. Apply the option instead of or in addition to applying the option to record a term from the RDA vocabulary encoding scheme.
LC/PCC practice: Record a term from the Term and Code List for RDA Media Types or its LC Linked Data Service equivalent.
Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option if specifically required by policy or the metadata system, as stated in the Metadata Guidance documentation.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Do not apply the option.
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: 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: Record a code from the Term and Code List for RDA Media Types or its LC Linked Data Service equivalent.
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.
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: 2026/06/13
Document: https://access.rdatoolkit.org/en-US_ala-365056d1-6cb2-3443-9827-60d970c3c149