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LAC Policy Statements for preferred title of work

Prerecording

Prerecording

LAC Core.

Recording

Recording an unstructured description

Option

LAC practice: Apply the option first.

Option

LAC practice: Cataloguer's judgement.

Option

LAC practice: Apply the option second.

Omissions and changes to a title

Alternative titles

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Additional omissions and changes

Option

LAC practice: Apply the options when they are applicable.

Different titles or forms of title for the same work

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option first to works created after 1500.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option second to works created after 1500.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Cataloguer's judgement. If applying the option, use the criteria given in this section to decide what is the preferred title of a representative expression.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option third to works created after 1500.

Preferred titles of work that are created before 1501

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Classical or Byzantine Greek works

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option first. The preferred language is English when the language of description is English, and it is French when the language of description is French.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option second.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option third.

Titles of works that are not found in an original language or is not applicable

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Titles of works that are found in a non-preferred script

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option for anonymous works created before 1501 and written neither in Greek nor in the Latin alphabet. If there is one, choose as the preferred title an established title in English when the language of description is English, and in French when the language of description is French.

Data provenance

Option

LAC practice: Apply this option if the metadata has been taken from a source other than the manifestation being described and there is a requirement to record that source. 

Recording a structured description

Recording an identifier

Recording an IRI

Document Date: 2026/11/04
Document: https://stage.rdatoolkit.org/en-US_ala-9af4dae2-194a-3431-9ab9-6ff764819d24

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