Collective Agent SES
This is a suggested string encoding scheme for an authorized access point of a collective agent who is related to the manifestation.
The encoding scheme is applicable to the value of a has collective agent associated with manifestation element or element sub-type.
The base access point of a collective agent is a name of the collective agent that is the most common in external sources of information.
The base access point may be followed by a set of qualifiers enclosed in brackets "(…)" and separated by semicolons "; ".
The ISBDM string template is:
[name of the collective agent] + " (" + [qualifier] + "; " + [qualifier] + ")"
Add qualifiers to disambiguate the base access point.
Added qualifiers are conditional on specific characteristics of the collective agent. They support a secondary collocation and sort order of authorized access points.
Use the following strings as qualifiers of a base access point:
- A controlled term for a category of the collective agent
- A field of activity of the collective agent
- A period of activity of the collective agent, including the date of a conference, meeting, or voyage
- A place of activity of the collective agent, including the location of a conference, meeting, or voyage.
- A number or other sequence designator of a conference, meeting, or voyage
Examples
| Relation | Example |
|---|---|
| has publisher collective agent | "Thames & Hudson" |
Full example: Charles Rennie Mackintosh (2002; Thames & Hudson; volume; perfect binding). The base access point is not qualified
| Relation | Example |
|---|---|
| has publisher collective agent | "Springer (Firm)" |
Full example: Synthesis lectures on data, semantics, and knowledge (2021-; Morgan & Claypool Publishers; volume). The base access point is qualified by a category of collective agent