Cataloguing moving images:Cataloguing moving images:describing artists' videos with MARC21describing artists' videos with MARC21

Jacqueline Cooke

Research Support Librarian, Goldsmiths

ARLIS study day: Picture this!the art of cataloguing images in the digital age, Paul Mellon Centre 9/9/2009

Jaffa Bollywood Unspool

Once more, with feeling Relato II

Artists’ work: Dafna, Anita, Oriana, Josefina

Library materialsLibrary materials

Time-based

Art, documentation, installation, interviews…

Production sources include commercial distribution, off-air recordings, small editions, unpublished, archival

Carrier media include videocassette, cd-rom, dvd etc.

Formats include VHS Pal/NTSC, Blu-ray Discs, DualDiscs, and DVD-Audio Discs

Cataloguer’s toolsCataloguer’s tools

BIBCO core record standard for moving image materials [2003] Title + statement of responsibilityPublication, distribution, datePhysical descriptionSubject access field/s

MARC21 with specific header and leadersAACR2r rules, with interpretations and guides

BIBCO – OLAC – AMIM2 – ARLIS C&COCLC and Z39.50 downloads

Source, title, statement of Source, title, statement of responsibilityresponsibility

Rist, Aleph recordRist, Aleph record

Credits, dateCredits, date

Title and statement of responsibility‘Credits’ synonymous

DateOriginal productionPublication/distribution etc.

Unpublishedno place or publisher, just date

Martha Rosler, Vital statistics of a citizen, simply obtained. EAI 2002

General note: originally produced in 1977 (500)Summary note (520)

Summary noteSummary note

Format & technical Format & technical specificationsspecifications245 f | GMD [videorecording]

300 a| 1 videocassette/1 DVD followed by playing time, e.g. (39:20 mins)

b| Characteristics, e.g. sd., b&w c| Measurementse| Accompanying material, e.g. for sets

538 system requirements, technical

specifications note, e.g. VHS500 general notes

SetsSets

Disc/sOther materialsMain item?Or [multimedia]

Graham Ellard & Stephen Johnstone, 1997. Passagen

Interactive and enhanced Interactive and enhanced discsdiscs

AACR2 Chapter 7 or 9?See OLAC/DVD guidelines

Enhanced DVDs or CD-romsPhysical description field (300)System requirements note (538)General note for special features

(500)

ContentsContents

Compilations with a uniform title

Formatted/Formal Contents note (505)

Statement of responsibility note (500)

Artists as added entries (600)

Titles as added entries (740)

Series (490/830)

Television programmes

ProjectProject

Goldsmiths Research Online http://eprints-gro.gold.ac.uk/138/

Josefina Anaya-Morales, 2005. Relato II: wandering Tehuanita. 520 00

Wearing a celebration dress that is out of place - walking in circles in the winter snow of a foreign land. Relato II is about the experience of migration through an inner struggle and determination to fit in with the outside. This work is part of Museo del Imaginario /imaginary museum, a major art project by Yosi Anaya. (Artist's statement).

520 00 Jaffa Bollywood – a video clip made of two parts, is 10 minutes long… Control over Jaffa repeatedly changed hands throughout the centuries.(Artist’s statement).

650 00 Video art650 00 Mimesis (philosophy)

Subject/sSubject/sGanani-Tomares, Dafna, 2005. Jaffa Bollywood part 2. [Video]

Goldsmiths Research Onlinehttp://eprints-gro.gold.ac.uk/227/

Access through subject fieldsAccess through subject fields

Topical subject headings (LCSH)Video art Thematic subject headings

Genre-form headingsSee Moving Image Genre-form Guide, esp.

appendix

Local subject headingsTextual summary notes retrieve by ‘key words’

and contextualise subject headings

Summary of useful notes Summary of useful notes

500 Source of title proper (if other than chief source)

500 Date originally produced 501 With note505 Formatted contents note 508 Credits note (extension of 245 $c)511 Participant or performer note546 Language note520 Summary note 538 System details note

Frictions and diversionsFrictions and diversions

• Sources of information, need to view• Individual or collaborative work• Various and alternative titles• Format affects use• Complicated contents • Inadquacy of subject indexing and textual

description• Context and allusion: what it depicts/what it is

about

Reflecting visual research Reflecting visual research processesprocesses

Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Beheading HolofernesDouglas Huebler, 633/variable piece #70:1971Oriana Fox, Untitled (after Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith Beheading Holofernes)

from Once more with feeling, Tate Modern, 26th June 2009

Relating work, expression, Relating work, expression, manifestation, itemmanifestation, item

Goldsmiths Research Online http://eprints-gro.gold.ac.uk/177/

Anita Ponton, 2005. Vertigo (the technophenomenological body in performance). PhD thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London. Still from ‘Unspool’.

A case for FRBR

Creative cataloguingCreative cataloguing

Contexts, site-specificity Institutional repositoriesLocal subject perspectives

New flexible standards:FRBRCataloguing Cultural ObjectsResource Description & Access

A strategy for cataloguing artist’s A strategy for cataloguing artist’s videosvideos

Use standardsRead guidesRecord local decisions and interpretationsInclude contextual and thematic

informationRespond to artist’s ideasPrepare for change

Reference listReference listAnglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR2r). 2nd ed., 2002 revision, 2005 update.

Chicago : American Library Association, 2005. DVD Cataloging Task Force, Cataloging Policy Committee of the OnLine Audiovisual

Catalogers (OLAC CAPC) Guide to Cataloging DVD and Blu-ray Discs Using AACR2r and MARC 21. 2008 Update OLAC, 2008. <http://www.olacinc.org/drupal/capc_files/DVD_guide_final.pdf>

LC rule interpretations <http://www.itsmarc.com/crs/LCRI0008.htm>Library of Congress, Archival Moving Image Materials - A Cataloging Manual (AMIM2):

<http://www.itsmarc.com/crs/arch0332.htm>  Library of Congress Cataloguing Directorate, Program for Cooperative Cataloging

(PCC). BIBCO core record standard for moving image materials. [2003] http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/bibco/coremim.html

Library of Congress Moving Image Genre-form Guide. <http://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/miggen.html> and <http://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/migsub.html#Experimental>

OLAC Cataloging Policy Committee Summary/Abstracts Task Force, Summary notes for catalogue records. <http://www.olacinc.org/capc/summnotes.html>

OLAC CAPC Moving Image Work-Level Records Task Force. Report and Recommendations [January 5, 2009] <http://www.olacinc.org/drupal/?q=node/27>

UCLA Film and Television Archive Cataloging Procedure Manual. <http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/CPM%20Voyager/CPMV00TofC.html>

Appendix: Appendix: Leader and header fieldsLeader and header fields• Position 06 in the leader is used to code the type of

bibliographic record:– “g” = projected media– Rather than the more usual “a” = language material

• 007 used for coded information on physical characteristics. First character defines meaning of subsequent characters, so “v” for videorecording, then standard entry would go:

• For VHS: vf#cbahos– Indicating: videorecording, on videocassette, [position undefined],

colour, VHS format, sound on medium, sound on videocassette, ½ in tape, stereo sound

• For DVD: vd#cvai|s– Indicating: videorecording, on videodisc, [position undefined],

colour, DVD, sound on medium, sound on videodisc, [width not applicable?], stereo sound

• 008 will have “v” in position 33 and a code for technique in position 34 (a for animation, l for live action, c for mixed).