Guidelines for the application of the ISBDs to the description of component parts

The publication of the Guidelines for the Application of the ISBDs to the Description of Component Partsmarks the completion of a long and complex effort to establish an internationally accepted framework for the description of items such as journal articles, chapters and other parts of monographs, individual tracks on sound recordings, and other types of “works within works”. From the outset it was recognized that achieving acceptance of such a framework would be difficult, particularly inasmuch as the potential implementors are divided between two communities that over time have established rather different practices and traditions with respect to bibliographic description: the library community, on the one hand, with its cataloguing tradition; and, on the other, the abstracting and indexing community with its citation practices. Although the initiative was taken by the library community, through IFLA, and was conceived within the overall programme for the development of International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD), it was acknowledged that the requirements and constraints of the abstracting and indexing community would have to be addressed in parallel with those of the library community in order to ensure that the resulting framework would meet the objective of providing the necessary bridge between the descriptions formulated in the two communities.

《〈国际标准书目著录（ISBD）〉组件部分著录应用指南》的发布，标志着为期刊论文、专著章节及其他单册出版物组成部分、录音制品音轨及其他"作品内嵌作品"等文献构建国际统一著录框架的长期复杂工作正式收官。项目伊始，业界便已预判到推动该框架获得广泛认可的难度：潜在实施群体分为两大阵营，二者在书目著录领域历经长期发展形成了截然不同的实践传统——一方是以编目传统为核心的图书馆界，另一方则是采用引文著录规范的文摘与索引界。尽管该倡议由图书馆界通过国际图书馆协会联合会（International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions，IFLA）发起，且整体依托于国际标准书目著录（International Standard Bibliographic Description，ISBD）的发展总体规划，但业内共识是，需同步兼顾文摘与索引界与图书馆界的需求与约束，方能确保最终形成的著录框架能够实现两大群体著录规范间的有效衔接这一核心目标。