MARC 21 Update

CIG Standards Forum3rd September 2008

Corine Deliot

Metadata Development Officer

Collection Acquisition & Description

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Presentation Overview

Brief overview of how MARC 21 is maintained

ALA Annual Conference

RDA papers Non-RDA papers

Making the 440 obsolete Other papers

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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 2008http://www.bic.org.uk/productinfo-bibliostandards.html

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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