Poster presented at the Cataloguing & Indexing Group conference in Swansea, UK in 2016.

1. Provenance in the Bibliographic Model
Anne Welsh
CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Conference 2016: Innovation and Discovery. Swansea, Wednesday 31 August – Friday 2 September.
UCL Department of Information Studies
=100 1$aSavage, Ernest Albert,$d1877-1966.
=245 10$aManual of book classification and display for public libraries /
$cby Ernest A. Savage.
=260 $aLondon :
$bGeorge Allen & Unwin :
$bLibrary Association,
$c1946.
=300 $a240 p., [16] p. of plates :
$bill. ;
$c20 cm.
=490 1$aLibrary Association series of library manuals ;
$v8.
=561 $aCopy originally owned by Mary Piggott, with her name in ink on
front free endpaper.
=563 $aCopy has dust wrapper.
=700 1$aPiggott, Mary,
$eformer owner.
=830 0$aLibrary Association series of library manuals ;
$v8.
MARC21*
* I deliberately chose a publication in which AACR2 and RDA would
be similar, but N.B. 260 $b would be fuller in RDA; 300 would use
“pages” and “illustrations” instead of “p.” and “ill.”; 700 $e is option in
AACR2 and mainstream in RDA.
• Essentially flat / mixed structure: copy-specific
information in 5XXs and 700.
• 700 entry provides an indexing function - $e
allows for books owned by Piggott to file after
books to which she contributed.
• 561 explains 700. Depending on LMS set-up
and use of conventions / set phrases in 5XXs,
can be possible to search e.g. for all records
saying “originally owned by Mary Piggott.”
Card Catalogue
MAIN ENTRY
ADDED ENTRY PROVENANCE INDEX
• Essentially flat structure.
• Search provided through entry points:
• All libraries had author/contributor sequence
• All libraries had title sequence
• Many libraries had subject sequence
• Each entry requires a new card (main entry has
all bib details, added entries point to main entry)
• Space is a problem.
• Material in the notes area cannot be
searched – merely provides user with
information once they have found the card.
• Some (exceptional) libraries created and
maintained a provenance index.
WEMI
(Work, Expression,
Manifestation, Item)
• Intended to reflect different relationships between publications as well as
between people involved with publications.
• Originally mooted in FRBR – Functional Requirements for Bibliographic
Records (IFLA, 1998), a version of the WEMI model has been implemented in
RDA (Resource Description and Access), but ‘FRBRised’ versions of catalogues
have been the subject of research projects for twenty years. RDA is only one
iteration.
• IFLA’s Review Group issued FRBR-LRM (The FRBR Library Reference Model)
for worldwide constituency review from 1 May 2016.
• Relationships between owners and their books takes place at the Item
level within the WEMI model.
Bibframe**: WII
(Work, Instance, Item)
** Bibframe is the model proposed by the Library of Congress’s Bibliographic Frameworks Initiative as the new
communications format to replace MARC. Bbframe 2.0 launched in April 2016
• Originally proposed as Work-Instance, another
level was introduced in April 2016, allowing for
Items (and an easier comparison with WEMI)
• Provenance is part of custodialHistory.
Although custodialHistory can pertain to
Work or Instance, it is likely that previous
owners will be dealt with at Item level.