Theatre on Film and Tape Archive
Provides guidelines for metadata describing material from the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive (TOFT) in the Metadata Management System (MMS)
Table of contents
Guidelines
Record Structure
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- All TOFT records should be located within the collection that corresponds to whether the material should be publicly accessible:
Name
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- Delete Name elements for TOFT directors (
Hoffman, Patrick
andCorwin, Betty L.
)- Ensure their names are instead included in a Note element with the Type: statement of responsibility
- For the Name element for the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive:
- Ensure Free text is formatted exactly as
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Billy Rose Theatre Division, Theatre on Film and Tape Archive
(without any periods) - Add the Role: Producer
- Ensure Free text is formatted exactly as
- For Name elements in the source record with the relator Video producer or Series producer:
- Add the Role: Producer
- For Name elements in the source record with a relator containing the word
designer
and no exact-match MARC relator term is available (e.g. Projection designer or Puppet designer):- Add the Role: Designer
- For Name elements in the source record with a relator containing the phrase
stage manager
(e.g. Stage manager or Production stage manager):- Add the Role: Production personnel
- For any Name elements where the relator was not imported and is not a MARC relator term (e.g. Orchestrations or Musical supervision):
- Add the Role: Contributor
Note
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- If removing a Name element for TOFT directors (
Hoffman, Patrick
andCorwin, Betty L.
), ensure their names are instead included in a Note element with the Type: statement of responsibility- The format of their names within the statement of responsibility should follow:
Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Patrick Hoffman, director
Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Betty L. Corwin, director
- The format of their names within the statement of responsibility should follow:
See Also
- Theatre on Film and Tape Archive (Internal Documentation) 🔒 for the respective MSU Liason’s 🔒 internal documentation and notes related to the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive
- MMS › Metadata › By Material › Audio & Moving Image (AMI) for guidelines for metadata specific to audio and moving image materials described in MMS