Acknowledgements

This manual is a result of the combined efforts of many professionals to whom we owe our gratitude.

Contributors to early, formative discussions that informed the basis for our approach include Anna Bohn, Marco Rendina, Rosario López de Prado, Anne-Marie Grapton, Andrea Leigh, and Kelley McGrath.

Many professionals from the FIAF Cataloguing Rules Revision Working Group graciously volunteered their knowledge and experience to the review of this manual. A special thanks to Laurent Bismuth, Georg Eckes, and Detlev Balzer for their thoughtful suggestions for improvement. We also appreciate Detlev for hosting the FIAF Cataloguing and Documentation Commission (CDC) wiki on his filmstandards.org website.

Several of the illuminating charts and examples, and other formatting needs (such as URLs) were kindly handled by Marian Hausner, Mats Skärstrand, and Miriam Campos-Quinn. Marian Hausner also did a painstaking job constructing the bibliography.

This work could not have been done without the support and guidance of the British Film Institute who contributed institutional policies and documents for our use. In particular, we want to mention Gabriele Popp, who encouraged and supported BFI staff involvement, and Stephen McConnachie, who generously contributed content and freely gave of his time and knowledge.

We thank current and former members of the CDC, the members of the FIAF Executive Committee, and the FIAF Senior Administrator for their support, especially Christophe Dupin, Rachael Stoeltje, and Olga Futemma.

A very special thank you is owed to Nancy Goldman, who managed numerous steps of the project, such as convening and chairing meetings and guiding the project’s development. She also contributed to the authoring of the manual and invested many hours in providing valuable insight and constructive criticism.

Lastly, we are indebted to Linda Tadic, who did a superb job of editing the manual and offered us the wisdom of her expertise, especially in the realm of digital media; and also to designer Lara Denil for all her hard work in improving and transforming the final layout of the manual for publication.

Natasha Fairbairn (Co-author)
Maria Assunta Pimpinelli (Co-author ; co-Chair, FIAF Rules Revision)
Thelma Ross (Co-author ; co-Chair, FIAF Rules Revision)