Welcome to the DCRM(G) Wiki

This is the place to follow progress on the Second Edition of Graphic Materials: Rules for Describing Original Items and Historical Collections, compiled by Elisabeth W. Betz (Library of Congress, Washington, DC, 1982). Keep an eye on this wiki to see work in progress; subscribe to DCRM-L to receive general updates on the progress of DCRM(G) and participate in the discussion of general questions about DCRM module development and rare materials cataloging as they arise.

General Information

• Proposal approved by  RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee, January 2008)
• Editorial team and Liasons
• Timeline/Schedule
• Editorial guidelines and conventions
• Ambiguities and mistakes to be corrected in subsequent modules
• DCRMG-LIST archives (public record of DCRM(G) editors' e-mails; may be temporarily unavailable during server maintenance on the 1st & 3rd Sundays of the month)

Current Work

• Loose ends
• Current state of the draft (changes as Erin continues to edit; file is uploaded here as a back-up during editing): DCRMGv7_5.doc
• Examples to find (list of examples needed)
• Notes from Virtual meetings:

• Notes from July 21 Virtual Meeting

• series area 
• devised titles for inaccurate, insufficient, or illegible text
• in-analytics

• Notes from July 28 Virtual Meeting

• Glossary: new photo terms; device; monogram; matrix; body of the description; manifestation
• i.e. and [sic] and RDA options
• inaccurate/incorrect titles
• Notes from August 4 Virtual Meeting
• artists' series
• i. j, u, v transcription when converting case
• in-analytics
• deliberately untitled art
• Notes from August 11 Virtual Meeting
• in-analytics (Lenore)
• do not bracket titles supplied from lists of plates in published works
• Notes from August 19 Virtual Meeting
• timetable: aiming for full draft by November
• no printing surfaces appendix
• Ellen to coordinate examples appendix
• Appendix on Minimal level records (Helena)
• Notes from August 25 Virtual Meeting
• physical description of multipart resources
• Notes from Sept. 9 Virtual Meeting
• report from SAA
• archival description vs. bibliographic description
• should add examples of silhouettes to the body of the text
• Notes from Sept. 16 Virtual Meeting
• archival description vs. bibliographic description
• Appendix B: companion standards
• Glossary additions needed: archival description; inscription
• Notes from Sept. 23 Virtual Meeting
• examples of silhouettes added
• Appendix A: MARC21 coding edited
• Glossary: added "inscription"
• Examples appendix: need ca. 25 examples
• coding for language in MARC 008: what's the point, and does it differ from the way the MARC21 instructions are written?
• Notes from Sept. 30 Virtual Meeting
• Area 5: Physical description edited
• Notes from Oct. 7 Virtual Meeting
• Area 5: Physical description edited some more
• Notes from Oct. 28 Virtual Meeting
• Finished Area 5 revisions
• Notes from Nov. 10 Virtual Meeting
• defined "archival description" for glossary
• decided to follow Graphic Materials layout for Examples appendix, except will be all-MARC

Temporary list of previous work

• Conference call, May 23, 1pm Eastern

• discussion topics
• in-progress version 7.2
•  To-do list for continuing to transform version 6 into version 7
• Version 7.1 (not for public comment; being discussed by editors at http://dcrmg.digress.it)

Other Progress

• DCRM(G) Drafts

• Meeting agendas and outcomes

• Section-by-section comparison of DCRM(B) and Graphic Materials

• Examples for specific rules, and of tricky or interesting material

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