Authority Control Interest GroupRDA and MARC

ALA Mid-Winter Denver

23 January 2009

John Espley

VTLS Inc.

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• RDA/MARC Working Group– Established March 2008– British Library, Library and Archives Canada,

and Library of Congress– “… established to collaborate on the

development of proposals for changes to the MARC 21 formats to accommodate the encoding of RDA data. “

• Members of the GroupEverett Allgood Corine Deliot Rebecca GuentherBill LeonardSally McCallum Marg Stewart Martha YeeReinhold Heuvelmann Rich GreeneJohn EspleyKathy GlennanRhonda Lawrence

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• RDA/MARC WG teleconference calls once a week

• At ALA Annual in Anaheim– 4 Proposals and 4 Discussion Papers were

presented at MARBI– Only 1 Proposal (Theses and Dissertations)

actually “passed”

• At this Mid-Winter ALA– 3 Proposals and 2 Discussion Papers

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• Proposal 2009-01/1: New data elements in the MARC 21 Authority Format– Dates– Places– Address– Language– Activities– Gender– Family Information

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• Proposal 2009-01/1: Dates– 046 Special Coded Dates

• Indicators are undefined

• $f - Birth date

• $g - Death date

• $o - Start date

• $p - End period

• $6 - Linkage

• $8 - Field link and sequence number

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• Proposal 2009-01/1: Places– 621 Associated place

• Indicators are undefined• $a – Place of birth• $b - Place of death• $c – Associated country• $d – Date associated place• $e – Place of residence/location of headquarters• $f - Other associated place• $g – Place of origin of work• $2 - Source

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• Proposal 2009-01/1: Address– 622 Address

• Both indicators are undefined• $a – Address• $b – City• $c – Intermediate jurisdiction• $d – Country• $e – Postal code• $t – Date associated with address• $z – Public note• $4 – Relator code

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• Proposal 2009-01/1: Associated Language– 628 Associated Language

• First indicator is undefined

• Second indicator – source of code# - MARC language code

7 – Source specified in subfield 2

• $a – Language code

• $2 – Source of code

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• Proposal 2009-01/1: Activities– 623 Field of Activity– 624 Affiliation– 625 Occupation

• Both indicators are undefined

• $a - Field of activity, Affiliation, or Occupation

• $d – Dates associated with …

• $2 – Source of term

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• Proposal 2009-01/1: Gender– 626 Gender

• Both indicators are undefined

• $a – Gender

• $d – Dates associated with gender

• $2 – Source of term

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• Proposal 2009-01/1: Family information– 627 Family information

• Both indicators are undefined

• $a – Type of family

• $b – Name of prominent member

• $c – Hereditary title

• $d – Date associated with family information

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• Proposal 2009-01/2: New content designation for RDA elements – Replaces GMD (245 $h)– Content type (tag 336)

• Only one that is affects the Authority Format

– Media type (tag 337)– Carrier type (tag 338)– Several changes to 007

• Codes added, rename, definition modified

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• Proposal 2008-01/3: Identifying Work, Expression, and Manifestation records in Bibliographic and Authority Formats– 883 Entity type

• Both indicators are undefined

• $a – Primary entity type term

• $b – Primary entity type code

• $n – Cataloger note

• $2 – Source

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• Discussion Paper 2009-DP01/1: Encoding URIs for controlled values in MARC records– Considers using a URI in place of or in addition

to the value in a number of fields– One suggestion is using a subfield 1 (one) in all

applicable fields– Another suggestion is using existing subfield

for the controlled value and let the URI be self-defining

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• Discussion Paper 2009-DP01/2: Relationship designators for RDA Appendix J and K– Appendix J: relationships between works,

expressions, manifestations, and items– Appendix K: relationships between persons,

families, and corporate bodies• Add $4 in 500, 510, and 511, and both $e and $4 in

530 in the authority format

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THANK YOU!

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