Interface Genre

Genre is used to group literature and other arts into categories based on stylistic criteria.

Bibliographic conventions differ as to whether to separate genre and form, as well as in what constitutes a genre and what constitures a form. The Norwegian national thesaurus for genre and form, (@link https://www.nb.no/nbvok/ntsf/nb/ | NTSF), contains both genre and form without separation. For practical reasons, Cordata therefore includes form as a subtype of Genre, using a boolean toggle to indicate form terms.

Cordata currently contains genres for literature, film and games. Genres for literature and film are mapped to NTSF. Plans are to later include a genre list for music as well.

interface Genre {
    alternativeNames: LanguageMapList;
    domain: WorkType;
    identifiers: {
        bibbiAuthorityId?: string;
        nmbfId?: string;
        ntsfId?: string;
    };
    isForm: boolean;
    name: LanguageMap;
    scopeNote?: string;
}

Hierarchy

  • CordataEntity
    • Genre

Properties

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Properties

alternativeNames

alternativeNames: LanguageMapList

Alternate names for the genre.

domain

domain: WorkType

Shows the type of work the Genre describes, e.g. Language work (written and audio books), Film work (film and television) or Video game work (video games).

identifiers

identifiers: {
    bibbiAuthorityId?: string;
    nmbfId?: string;
    ntsfId?: string;
}

Map of identifiers for matching records in external systems.

Type declaration

  • Optional bibbiAuthorityId?: string

    Identifier assigned by Biblioteksentralen for authority records. Unique for all authorities independent of type.

  • Optional nmbfId?: string

    Identifier for a concept in «Emneord for musikk», a controlled vocabulary of music terminology from the Norwegian Music Library Association (NMBF) published by the Bergen Library (@link https://bergenbibliotek.no/musikkogfilm/emneord-for-musikk/komposisjonstype-og-sjanger/sjanger | NMBF). The published vocabulary does not have persistent identifiers for the concepts, so identifiers are derived from the terms.

  • Optional ntsfId?: string

    ID from the Norsk tesaurus for sjanger og form, (@link https://www.nb.no/nbvok/ntsf/nb/ | NTSF).

isForm

isForm: boolean

Indicates whether an entry is a Form term.

name

name: LanguageMap

Preferred name of the genre. Currently in Norwegian bokmål and nynorsk.

Optional scopeNote

scopeNote?: string

Internal note on the entity, e.g. "Used for both fiction and non-fiction", "Used mainly for childrens' lit"

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