Cataloguing moving images: describing 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 feelingRelato II Artists’ work: Dafna, Anita, Oriana, Josefina

Library 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installation, interviews… Production sources include commercial distribution, off-air recordings, small editions, unpublished, archival Carrier media include videocassette, cd-rom, dvd etc.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 tools BIBCO core record standard for moving image materials [2003] Title + statement of responsibility Publication, distribution, date Physical description Subject access field/s MARC21 with specific header and leaders AACR2r rules, with interpretations and guides BIBCO – OLAC – AMIM2 – ARLIS C&C OCLC and Z39.50 downloads

Source, title, statement of responsibility

Rist, Aleph record

Credits, date Title and statement of responsibility ‘Credits’ synonymous Date Original production Publication/distribution etc. Unpublished no place or publisher, just date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 note

Format & technical specifications 245 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| Measurements e| Accompanying material, e.g. for sets 538 system requirements, technical specifications note, e.g. VHS 500 general notes

Sets Disc/s Other materials Main item? Or [multimedia] Graham Ellard & Stephen Johnstone, Passagen

Interactive and enhanced discs AACR2 Chapter 7 or 9? See OLAC/DVD guidelines Enhanced DVDs or CD-roms Physical description field (300) System requirements note (538) General note for special features (500)

Contents 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

Project Goldsmiths Research Online Josefina Anaya-Morales, Relato II: wandering Tehuanita 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).

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) Video art Mimesis (philosophy) Subject/s Ganani-Tomares, Dafna, Jaffa Bollywood part 2. [Video] Goldsmiths Research Online

Access through subject fields Topical subject headings (LCSH) Video art Thematic subject headings Genre-form headings See Moving Image Genre-form Guide, esp. appendix Local subject headings Textual summary notes retrieve by ‘key words’ and contextualise subject headings

Summary of useful notes 500 Source of title proper (if other than chief source) 500 Date originally produced 501 With note 505 Formatted contents note 508 Credits note (extension of 245 $c) 511 Participant or performer note 546 Language note 520 Summary note 538 System details note

Frictions 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 processes Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Beheading HolofernesDouglas Huebler, 633/variable piece #70:1971 Oriana Fox, Untitled (after Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith Beheading Holofernes) from Once more with feeling, Tate Modern, 26th June 2009

Relating work, expression, manifestation, item Goldsmiths Research Online Anita Ponton, Vertigo (the technophenomenological body in performance). PhD thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London. Still from ‘Unspool’. A case for FRBR

Creative cataloguing Contexts, site-specificity Institutional repositories Local subject perspectives New flexible standards: FRBR Cataloguing Cultural Objects Resource Description & Access

A strategy for cataloguing artist’s videos Use standards Read guides Record local decisions and interpretations Include contextual and thematic information Respond to artist’s ideas Prepare for change

Reference list Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR2r). 2nd ed., 2002 revision, 2005 update. Chicago : American Library Association, 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 Update OLAC, LC rule interpretations Library of Congress, Archival Moving Image Materials - A Cataloging Manual (AMIM2): Library of Congress Cataloguing Directorate, Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC). BIBCO core record standard for moving image materials. [2003] Library of Congress Moving Image Genre-form Guide. and OLAC Cataloging Policy Committee Summary/Abstracts Task Force, Summary notes for catalogue records. OLAC CAPC Moving Image Work-Level Records Task Force. Report and Recommendations [January 5, 2009] UCLA Film and Television Archive Cataloging Procedure Manual.

Appendix: Leader 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).