ISBD for Manifestation

ISBD for Manifestation provides partial accommodation for information about other IFLA Library Reference Model entities Work, Expression, Item, Agent, Collective Agent, Person, Place, Time-span, and Nomen that are associated within the description of a manifestation.

Specific utilities include:

• The broad relationship elements that associate the other entities with the manifestation; for example the has agent associated with manifestation and has place associated with manifestation elements.
• The has work embodied in manifestation element that allows a work to be related to the manifestation without describing the intermediary expression.
• The has category of embodied content element that allows Expression categories to be attached to the description of the manifestation.
• The has note on entity associated with manifestation element and element sub-types that accommodate brief descriptions of related entities.
• The labels of elements that include "manifestation" when similar elements are likely to be assigned to other entities in the future.
• The stipulations for manifestations that embody diachronic works that allow the manifestation to be described as standalone or as a sub-unit of the "whole", or both, without the complexity of describing diachronic works and their issues.

Broad and partial descriptions of related entities may be refined in due course when ISBD stipulations for the other IFLA Library Reference Model entities are developed. This will not make the ISBDM data incorrect or inconsistent.