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I'm going to try 3 schemas: AACR2 with MARC21, RDA/FRBR, CCO/VRA and CDWA.
Let's start with a bibliographic description. I know, it's not a book.
Title and Statement of Responsibility: We're going to use a descriptive phrase instead of the 'title' of the tattooed image. I'll use my own tattoo(s) as examples.
- [Navaho sun symbol] [realia] / Suzanne M. DeGrasse
I tattooed it myself so the subject and s.o.r. are the same. Let's pretend I didn't.
- [Navaho sun symbol] [realia] / Dude Withaneedle.
Edition Statement: Well, sometimes people have work re-done/re-inked, or altered. This particular one started out as a dot and underwent many revisions. So I'd estimate this as edition 6. "They" say you don't need edition statements with realia but I think it's useful with this, don't you?
- 6th ed
Material specific details: This 'edition' was finalized in (approx.) 1988. It is 10 cm by 10 cm. The medium is skin. Human skin. The ink I used was black calligraphy ink. The implement was a sewing needle.
- 1988 (Rochester, NY: Dude's Tattoo Blunderland)
- Black Calligraphy ink on human skin
- Hmmm. I'm not sure if I need to put the method (needle) in here or the size or wait until the physical description.
Publication, Distribution: nope.
Physical Description:
- 10 mm x 10 mm
- image is of one central dot surrounded by a circle. 8 2 to 3 mm lines extend out from the circle in each compass direction: N,S, E, W, NW, SW, NE, SE
- image is oriented so that it can be viewed from any angle
- located on inner left ankle directly on top of ankle joint (yeah, oww)
- black ink inserted subcutaneously with a 5 cm sewing needle
It might be nice if someone drew me a picture of what I described so I can see if I did it accurately. You can use Word and just attach or email it. If anyone (ANYONE) does I will then take a photo and we can see the similarities to the real thing!
Notes: Ahh, notes. The sad little realm of the MARC21 realia cataloger. Oh 500, how we love you. Here we cram the important stuff like:
- Dude Withaneedle (1969-)
- Suzanne M DeGrasse (1970-)
- Original design was a simple dot. Further renderings included a larger dot; a dot with a circle around it; an eyeball; and a compass rose. When subject saw the Navaho sand carvings in Albuqueque NM in 1997 she recognized her design as that of a Navaho sun symbol.
What else might we put in here?
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Suzie: If we're talking AACR2/MARC21, I think you're confusing Material Specific Detail (which is only used for serials, cartographic materials, or electronic resources) with Publication, Distribution, (that's where "1988 (Rochester, NY: Dude's Tattoo Blunderland)" goes). Physical Description would read something like 1 tattoo :$b black ink inserted subcutaneously ;$c 10 mm x 10 mm
ReplyDeleteAll the rest of the information you listed would go into 500 field(s). They don't have to be separate; you can combine two or more.
One last comment: Dude Withaneedle (1969-) and
Suzanne M DeGrasse (1970-) are added entries. They would be coded 700 and/or 600 depending on which title statement you chose.
Great exercise! We don't often get a chance to catalog tatoos. Perhaps I'll let my next cataloging class have a shot at this instead of boring ald books.
Thanks for your input, Dodie. AACR2 says that for realia regarding the the 260 field (pub and dist) "A naturally occurring object will not have any information in this
ReplyDeletearea because it is not published and there is no date of publication. That's what I was going on. I was planning on doing a MARC tagged one next, but was starting with the bib desc because I find it helps to order one's thoughts about an object before you get into the nitty gritty of fields. Are you saying that the material specifics details would be better off being left blank and that info go into the phys desc? I hate sticking everything in with notes, which is why I like the idea of Cooperative Cataloging. However, CDWA is going to be better suited for this, anyways. Don't you think?
You're cataloging an original design here -- which is like cataloging a handwritten diary or a collection of letters, something that's unique. But are there also tattoos that are not unique? Seems to me there are tattoo books, right? And people choose a tattoo from the book? So then you'd want to have something in the catalog record about the design of the tattoo -- maybe they're numbered in the books, so you'd end up with something like "Jones Tattoo No. 546." I'm not sure if that would be the title of the tattoo (implying that all tattoos of Jones Tattoo No. 546 are the same) or if it would be more like a 500 note, like a citation to a bibliography, because each person's version of the tattoo might be different, different skin, different sizes or colors maybe, but they were based on the same tattoo?
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