8.3 Events - Manifestations

Record one or more Event type, for example, “decision,” “manufacture,” etc., to express the nature of the Event’s relationship to the Manifestation. Selection should be made from a controlled list of terms. A suggested list, which is open and not exhaustive, can be found in D.4 Event Types.

For Manifestations, a Publication Event corresponds to a screening, broadcast or the release of the Manifestation of a Work/Variant on a physical distribution medium or online.

A Publication Event may be associated with instances of Agent in the role of e.g., publisher, distributor, broadcaster1, etc. See Distributor (theatrical) and sec:work_variant_agent_types.

A Publication Event may be associated with instances of “Other” relationship(s) (e.g., promotional material of the theatrical distribution, the advertising of the home video publication, etc.).

Record all the existing relationships of a Publication Event, if the information is known and considered of relevance.

Publication Event information consists of the following sub-elements:

  • Publication type
  • Publication date

  • Region

  • Publication type

Record the Publication type for Manifestations, for example, “pre-release,” “theatrical distribution,” etc. Selection should be made from a controlled list of terms. See sec:manifestation_publication_types. - Publication type - Publication date - Region

Publication type

For Works/Variants, record the type of Publication Event for Works/Variants, for example, publication, release, distribution, broadcast, online transmission. Selection should be made from a controlled list of values, e.g.:

  • Release
  • Publication
  • Distribution
  • Broadcast
  • Online Transmission (e.g. Internet, Intranet)
  • Pre-Release
  • Theatrical distribution
  • Non-theatrical distribution
  • Not for release
  • Home video publication
  • Broadcast
  • Unknown

Record the Publication type for Manifestations, for example, “pre-release,” “theatrical distribution,” etc. Selection should be made from a controlled list of terms (see above).

  1. Some institutions specifically dealing with TV material may wish to use an actual “TV Transmission Manifestation” for this data. ↩