Expression Elements

Note: Representative expression elements, despite their name, belong to the Work entity, not the Expression entity. For general comments on representative expression elements, see Treatment of Representative Expressions.

Additional commentary on specific expression elements will be provided in later versions as necessary.

medium of performance of musical content

MARC recommendations from the MLA Encoding Standards Subcommittee's MARC Cataloging Inefficiency Task Group:

  • For new bibliographic records, prefer recording medium of performance in field 382 over field 048. In existing records, generally do not update field 048 unless directed by local policy.

This recommendation is reflected in the MLA Best Practices in the RDA Toolkit.