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Click "edit record" on left.
If (your institution (XXXX)) PCC (or HARV) is not already a source on the record, it must be added before any further editing of the record. (An exception is when you add a General Note on the External Information and Notes tab to send information to the ISNI quality team about errors, records to merge or split, etc.)
Click the + beside "Add Identifier"
"XXXX" "PCC" (or "HARV") is automatically added as identifier type; identifier can be left blank
Your institution's form of the name must also be added to the record, even if the form is already in the record.
Click the + beside "Add Name"
Add the form of name found in the (your institution's) PCC source in the boxes.
It is not necessary to click "Save changes" before going to one of the other tabs at the top of the record, e.g. "Personal Details," "Associations," etc.
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Under Class and Role, you can add a "Creation class", which is similar to RDA's content type. It represents the kinds of works a person has created. When creating a new ISNI record, the interface gives some examples of creation classes (text, music, audiovisual, choreographic, software, art works), but not when editing an existing record. Existing records have codes like “txt”. According to the ISNI data element values document, this element is still to be defined, and the default is "cre". In any case, it's optional. In spite of the pop-up information in the interface, information in some older documentation, and examples in some records, the latest information from ISNI is that we should use a two-letter code from the MARC leader bytes 06 and 07 (http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bdleader.html)
There is a drop-down list for creation roles. In addition to "director," there are various terms beginning with "film," including "film director" and "filmmaker."
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You cannot change information entered by another source (sources other than the one you are using, PCC or HARV).
New records
To enter a record for an identity that is new to ISNI, click "Webcat" at the top of the screen.
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