LC-PCC policy statements for prominent member of family

LC/PCC Core when need to distinguish a family from another family with the same name. The name of place may be recorded as presented, but the form used as part of the authorized access point of family is based on how it is or would be established in the vocabulary encoding scheme .

LC/PCC practice: See the Metadata Guidance documentation: Family elements.

LC/PCC practice: See the Metadata Guidance documentation: Descriptive Relationship elements and Relationship labels.

LC/PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment.

LC/PCC practice: Optionally, apply the instruction using a note.

LC/PCC practice: Record the element using a structured description. If possible, express the relationship using a relationship label, or a relationship label in combination with an identifier or IRI, as allowed by the metadata management system. Apply this policy statement when recording: 1) an authorized access point in a bibliographic record, 2) an authorized access point for a related entity in an authority record, or 3) a structured value that is not functioning as an access point. If the metadata management system does not permit recording a relationship label for the element, omit it.