Elements and Performance Criteria
- Identify description requirements
- Analyse resources
- Use analysis and description tools and standards, precedents and techniques appropriate to the nature of the resources, including indexes
- Analyse subject content of resources to clearly distinguish significant information from minor references
- Integrate established general concepts and principles of description and knowledge of relevant standards, authorities and legislations.
- Ensure concepts derived from analysis of resources are appropriate in context of the subject field
- Describe resources and format descriptions
- Create descriptions that represent concepts appropriately and reflect the overall purpose and intended use of the description
- Conform format of description to general conventions
- Develop a reference structure of descriptors to display relationships to assist customers
- Enhance description to meet identified customer needs
- Review description practices and procedures
- In consultation with colleagues, review description practices and procedures to ensure they take account of industry developments and meet customer needs
- Take appropriate action within scope of individual responsibility to enhance description practices and procedures
- Check descriptions regularly for internal consistency and compliance with established structure, rules and authorities