[Koha] koha and photographs

[Hernandez, Heather]

Hi--

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 1:13 AM, Manos PETRIDIS <egpetridis at gmail.com>wrote:

> Very, very interesting. I'm not a librarian and the example given is most
> helpful. I have a "maritime" question: in the case of a ship's photograph,
> where would/do you keep the ships' IMO number, its call code or other such
> identity numbers? The same for the business entities involved (builder,
> owner etc.)
>

We record identity numbers for the ship, when the ship is more well-known
by its name(s), as see-references in the authority record, and business
entities related to the ship are recorded in the authority record's
notes--the authority records contain all the information available about
the ship, and all variant ways someone would search for materials about
that ship.  When, e.g., a book or photograph contains content related to
the business entities associated with a ship, then those entities are also
recorded in appropriate subject and/or name added entries (610, 710, etc.)
on the bibliographic record.  (Most of our headings for ships have been
established under AACR2, and we're just implementing RDA, by the way.)  So
our authority records for a ship with name changes would contain fields
something like these (made up examples):

110 2_ Monumental (Cargo ship)
410 2_ Hull no. 2534
410 2_ IMO 1234567
510 2_ President Washington (Cargo ship) $w b
667 __ SS Monumental built at Bethlehem Shipyard, San Francisco, hull no.
2534, launched Apr. 5, 1932, for Pacific Mail Steamship Co.; sold to
American President Lines on Mar. 2, 1946, name changed to SS Stupendous
upon sale.

110 2_ President Washington (Cargo ship)
410 2_ Hull no. 2534
410 2_ IMO 1234567
510 2_ Monumental (Cargo ship) $w a
667 __ SS Monumental built at Bethlehem Shipyard, San Francisco, hull no.
2534, launched Apr. 5, 1932, for Pacific Mail Steamship Co.; sold to
American President Lines on Mar. 2, 1946, name changed to SS President
Washington upon sale.

If a vessel, though, is more well known by a number, then that's its
established heading, e.g., "PT-109 (Torpedo boat)."  But since we have a
historical collection, most of the ships for which we're establishing
headings are more well known by a name rather than a number.

Cheerio!
Heather
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Heather Hernandez
Technical Services Librarian
Cultural Resources and Museum Management Division
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park
 heather_hernandez at nps.gov
415-561-7032 (voice)       415-556-3540 (fax)
http://www.nps.gov/safr/historyculture/library-collections.htm

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