Hi Jenn,
That's the practice we have applied as well in the Library of Congress
Web Archives (LCWA) MODS implementation.
Here's a link to a MODS record for a political cartoonist's archived
web site, an analogous case to the one you mention below, where images
of politicians are prominently featured and as a result LSCH personal
and corporate NAF headings for them are included in the record as
subjects.
<http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/lcwa/mrva0014.0004/mods.xml>
<subject authority="lcsh">
<name type="personal" authority="naf">
<namePart>Telnaes, Ann</namePart>
<namePart type="date">1960-</namePart>
</name>
</subject>
*
<subject authority="lcsh">
<name type="personal" authority="naf">
<namePart>Bush, George W. (George Walker)</namePart>
<namePart type="date">1946-</namePart>
</name>
</subject>
*
<subject authority="lcsh">
<name type="personal" authority="naf">
<namePart>Cheney, Richard B.</namePart>
</name>
</subject>
*
<subject authority="lcsh">
<name type="corporate" authority="naf">
<namePart>United States</namePart>
<namePart>Supreme Court</namePart>
</name>
<temporal>2000-2010</temporal>
</subject>
Tracy
>>> Elizabeth McKelvey <[log in to unmask]> 2/16/2010 10:16 AM
>>>
Hi Jen,
Thanks for asking -- we struggled with this internally as the wording
in the DLF Aquifer guidelines is a bit confusing.
Here's what our internal policy is (and we think it is in sync with DLF
Aquifer).
If you are working in an environment or on a project where you are
routinely constructing your name subject headings (subdivisions, etc.
using the SCM and LCSH), then the subject element should have an
attribute authority=lcsh.
Additionally, if the name element within the subject wrapper is in the
naf, then the name element should have the attribute authority=naf.
Betsy
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> Subject: [MODS] Authority for names as subject
>
> Dear MODS Implementers,
>
> I'm finally getting around to asking the list about a topic that
I've
> been
> unsure about for some time - how to reference the authoritative form
of
> a
> name for a famous person pictured in a historic photograph.
>
> In the MODS User Guidelines under subject,
> <http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-userguide-
> elements.html#subject>,
> I see:
>
> "If the subject string is formulated according to the Library of
> Congress
> Subject Headings (or LC Name Authority File
> <http://authorities.loc.gov> ),
> the value of the authority attribute is "lcsh." A subject thesaurus
> that
> does not include names but has an implied authority for names uses
the
> designation for that thesaurus (i.e., "lcsh" means LCSH plus NAF)."
>
> I've long been confused by how names as subjects are treated in
MARC.
> The
> explanation from the MODS user guidelines suggests to me MARC
authority
> records for names are coded in such a way as to explicitly indicate
> whether
> that name is legal to be used as a subject in addition to (or
instead
> of?)
> as a creator. Is that understanding correct?
>
> So what is best practice to use in MODS for a person pictured in a
> photograph when they have an entry in the authority file? Always
> <subject
> authority="lcsh">? <subject authority="lcsh"> only when the record
is
> coded
> for subject use but <subject authority="naf"> otherwise? Something
> else?
>
> As may be obvious, the authority="lcsh" option for a name kind of
> bothers
> me, especially since we use authority="naf" on <name> elsewhere.
>
> What is the perceived best practice here? What do folks actually do
in
> their
> own implementations? Are there clarifications, changes, etc., to the
> User
> Guidelines in order?
>
> Thanks,
> Jenn
>
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> Jenn Riley
> Metadata Librarian
> Digital Library Program
> Indiana University - Bloomington
> Wells Library W501
> (812) 856-5759
> www.dlib.indiana.edu
>
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