Hi Again,
As a follow-up I found a MARC record for a photographic portrait of Leontyne Price by Carl Van Vechten and notice that when the MARC record is run through the MODS xslt we don't get the authority="naf" in the <name> subfield (for creator or subject), although we have NAFs for both of them and the NAF form for both is used in the original MARC record that was used to generate the MODS version. This is because there is no reliable trigger in the original MARC record that could be used to generate the authority="naf" in the conversion to MODS.
MARC RECORD
<http://lccn.loc.gov/2004663466/marcxml>
CREATOR:
<datafield tag="100" ind1="1" ind2=" ">
<subfield code="a">Van Vechten, Carl,</subfield>
<subfield code="d">1880-1964,</subfield>
<subfield code="e">photographer.</subfield>
</datafield>
SUBJECT
<datafield tag="600" ind1="1" ind2="0">
<subfield code="a">Price, Leontyne.</subfield>
</datafield>
MODS RECORD
<http://lccn.loc.gov/2004663466/mods>
CREATOR:
<name type="personal">
<namePart>Van Vechten, Carl</namePart>
<namePart type="date">1880-1964</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm type="text" authority="marcrelator">creator</roleTerm>
</role>
<role>
<roleTerm type="text">photographer.</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
SUBJECT:
<subject authority="lcsh">
<name type="personal">
<namePart>Price, Leontyne</namePart>
</name>
</subject>
Tracy
>>> Tracy Neckar Meehleib <[log in to unmask]> 2/16/2010 10:50 AM >>>
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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> Metadata Librarian
> Digital Library Program
> Indiana University - Bloomington
> Wells Library W501
> (812) 856-5759
> www.dlib.indiana.edu
>
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