MARC 21 Update CIG Standards Forum 3rd September 2008 Corine Deliot Metadata Development Officer Collection Acquisition & Description
Presentation Overview Brief overview of how MARC 21 is maintained ALA Annual Conference RDA papers Non-RDA papers Making the 440 obsolete Other papers
MARBI 2008 – Annual meeting Machine Readable Bibliographic Information committee 28th-30th June 2008 ALA Annual Conference, Anaheim, California. http://www.loc.gov/marc/development.html BIC Bibliographic Standards Group 19th January 2008 http://www.bic.org.uk/productinfo-bibliostandards.html
RDA Proposals RDA/MARC Working Group established in March 2008. Starting point: 2008-DP04 Encoding RDA, Resource Description and Access data in MARC Four proposals put forward; four discussion papers. 2008-05/1: Encoding RDA: Introduction and Principles 2008-05/2: Identifying work and expression records in the MARC 21 Bibliographic format
RDA Proposals 2008-05/3: New content designation for RDA elements: Content type, Media type, Carrier type 2008-05/4: Enhancing field 502 (Dissertation note) of the MARC 21 Bibliographic format (as amended) creation of new subfields to record degree type, name granting institution, year degree granted, dissertation number, miscellaneous information 2nd indicator not defined Dissertation number renamed dissertation identifier
RDA Discussion Papers 2008-DP05/1: Using RDA relationship designators between names and resources with MARC 21 records 2008-DP05/2: New data elements in the MARC 21 Authority Format 2008-DP05/3: Treatment of controlled lists of terms and coded data in RDA and MARC 21 2008-DP05/4: Items not requiring MARC 21 format changes for RDA
Proposal 2008-07 2008-07: Making field 440 (Series Statement/Added Entry Title) obsolete in the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format Making 440 obsolete Redefining 490 1st indicator value 1 as “series traced in 8XX” For 440 - only MARC 21 field performing dual function: transcription and access. Makes training easier Makes retrospective series authority control easier
Proposal 2008-07 Against: Policy decision Legacy data Duplication of data Decision: 440 is now obsolete 490 1st indicator value 1 redefined as “series traced in 8XX” Implementation
Other Papers 2008-04: Changes to Nature of entire work and Nature of content codes in field 008 of the MARC 21 Bibliographic format (as amended) 2008-06: Adding information associated with the Series Added Entry fields (800-830) 2008-08: Definition of subfield $z in field 017 of the MARC 21 Bibliographic and addition of the field to the MARC 21 Holdings formats
Other Papers 2008-09: Definition of Videorecording format codes in field 007/04 of the MARC 21 bibliographic format (as amended) 2008-10: Definition of a subfield for Other standard number in field 534 of the MARC 21 bibliographic format (as amended) 2008-DP06: Coding deposit programs as methods of acquisitions in field 008/07 of the MARC 21 holdings format
And finally … If you would like to propose changes to the MARC format, http://www.bic.org.uk/productinfo-bibliostandards.html marc-standards@bl.uk If you would like to contribute to the discussions, post to the MARC Forum at MARC@LISTSERV.LOC.GOV Thank you. Any questions? corine.deliot@bl.uk