Many Pathways for Discovery: Describing Music Resources Using Faceted Vocabularies

Many Pathways for Discovery  is a manual for metadata practitioners learning music cataloging for the first time, as well as a ready reference tool for more experienced practitioners. It is intended to serve as a companion guide to general music cataloging instruction, focusing on what has traditionally been considered the more advanced skillset of “subject analysis.” It provides guidance for answering the “W-questions” about music content:  What  is it? (genre/form);  What  is it for, or,  How  is it performed? (medium of performance);  Who  is it by and  Who  is it for? (demographic aspects);  When  was it created? (chronological aspects);  Where  was it created? (geographic aspects) This book is primarily geared toward a metadata environment based on MARC 21 encoding and on vocabularies developed by the Library of Congress, namely, the  Medium of Performance Thesaurus for Music  (LCMPT), the  Genre/Form Terms for Library and Archival Materials  (LCGFT), and the  Demographic Group Terms  (LCDGT). Comparisons to legacy practices involving  Library of Congress Subject Headings  (LCSH)   are included. Additional chapters address encoding of faceted descriptors in Linked Data environments, and on discovery   possibilities for end users. A bibliography of foundational and supplemental resources is provided.