CC:DA/OLAC/2015/1 Addition of new Chapter 3 elements for optical disc physical standard, optical disc recording method, and optical disc data type

Abstract

OLAC thinks that it is best for RDA to take a pragmatic approach to describing these optical disc characteristics. The instructions in RDA should be easy for catalogers without strong technical backgrounds to understand and apply. They should describe resources at a level that is useful and easily understood by end users and public services staff. We propose the addition of elements that describe the primary physical aspects (Optical disc physical standard and Optical disc recording method) and the high-level data type (Optical disc data type) of optical discs. These omissions are more of a hindrance at a practical level than current problems with RDA's list of video encoding formats. This proposal only discusses digital encoding formats when they overlap with optical disc characteristics. We may, as resources allow, reexamine video encoding formats in the future.