LC Update to the Authority Control Interest Group

1. LC Update to theAuthority Control Interest Group 2012 ALA Annual Conference Janis L. Young Policy and Standards DivisionLibrary of Congress jayo@loc.gov

2. Bibliographic FrameworkTransition Initiative • LC has contracted with Zepheira • Zepheira team led by Eric Miller will provide • A model (or models) to serve as starting points for discussion • An analysis of related initiatives underway that will be useful to this effort

3. Bibliographic FrameworkTransition Initiative • LC will enable community participation • International users and partners • Various types of information agencies and libraries • Library suppliers • Information will be posted at www.loc.gov/marc/transition

4. Romanization Tables Tables posted on the ALA-LC Romanization Tables website • New tables • Moroccan Tamazight • Shan • Syriac • Revisions to existing tables • Bulgarian • Khmer • Russian

5. Romanization Tables Tables currently under constituent review • New tables • Cherokee • Manchu • Revisions to existing tables • Arabic • Japanese • Belarusian

6. Romanization Tables Tables that will be posted for constituent review • Kazakh in Arabic script (new) • Lepcha (revision)

7. Taiwanese Place Names • Name and subject headings for geographic places in Taiwan should now be established using the Pinyin romanization scheme • Including all jurisdictions, quasi-jurisdictions, and features • Subject Headings Manual H 690 will be revised • LC staff will examine the existing headings and update them as necessary

8. LCC in Authorities & Vocabularies • Four LC classification schedules have been added as a beta test B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion M Music and books on music N Fine arts Z Bibliography. Library science. Information resources (General) • Schedules may be searched by caption • Bulk download of the schedules is not available

9. LC Classification: KIA-KIK • Law of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas: North America (KIA-KIK) • Draft available on LC’s web site at http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/kia_draft.html • Comment period closed May 20, 2012 • Questions: Jolande Goldberg, jgol@loc.gov

10. LCSH: Orphan Headings • Investigating the possibility of adding BTs to categories of orphan headings • To more closely align with ANSI/NISO Z39.19-2005 • To enhance the usefulness of LCSH on the Semantic Web

11. 072 Fields in Subject Authorities • Experiment to add subject category codes (MARC 21 field 072) to subject authorities • To enhance usability of LCSH on the Semantic Web • Requires automatic heading generation • To allow systems to suggest appropriate subdivisions to catalogers • To improve automatic validation of heading strings

12. 072 Fields in Subject Authorities • 072 field will contain Subject Headings Manual instruction sheet numbers for free-floating and pattern lists of subdivisions • Will indicate into which list(s) a heading falls • Will correlate to the 073 fields (subdivision usage), already present in subdivision records

13. 072 Fields in Subject Authorities Subdivision 073 ## $a H 1150 $z lcsh 180 ## $x Patients 680 ## $i Use as a topical subdivision under individual diseases and types of diseases. Heading 072 #7 $a H 1150 $2 lcsh 150 ## $a Autoimmune diseases Generated heading string 650 #0 $a Autoimmune diseases $x Patients.

14. 072 Fields in Subject Authorities • Experiment parameters • PSD subject policy specialists will add 072 fields as time permits • Proposals that appear on Tentative Monthly Lists and headings that are directly encountered during vetting of the Lists will be eligible • Straightforward instruction sheets will be included • Only subject authority records may include 072 fields; 072 fields may not be added to name authorities at this time

15. 072 Fields in Subject Authorities • Will allow programmers to experiment with using the data to create linkages • Success or failure will help inform PSD’s decision on whether to continue • If successful • The project will likely be broadened to include other stakeholders • Problematic instruction sheets will be addressed

16. Genre/Form Terms Cartography project • Proposal • Broaden meaning of Globes and assign it to all globes • Cancel Lunar globes • Post-coordinate with the subject heading for the body represented

17. Genre/Form Terms Cartography project • Assignment of headings Title: [Globe of Ganymede]. 651 #0 $a Ganymede (Satellite) $v Globes. 655 #7 $a Globes. $2 lcgft Title: [Globe of the Earth]. 651 #0 $a Earth $v Globes. 655 #7 $a Globes. $2 lcgft

18. Genre/Form Terms Cartography project • Discussion paper: Proposed Treatment of Globes in the LCGFT Environment http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/genre_form_globes.pdf • Comments accepted through July 31, 2012

19. Genre/Form Terms Music genre/form project • Collaboration between the Music Library Association (MLA) and LC • Have agreed to over 600 terms to date

20. Genre/Form Terms Music medium of performance project • Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus for Music (LCMPT) • Collaboration between LC and MLA • MARC coding • Bibliographic records: tag 382 • Authority records • MARBI DP02: Authority records for music medium of performance terms

21. Genre/Form Terms Literature project • Undertaken in cooperation with the ALCTS/SAC Subcommittee on Genre/Form Implementation (SGFI) • Working Group on LCGFT Literature Terms • PSD provided a seed list of approximately 550 LCSH form headings

22. Genre/Form Terms Literature project • Working Group’s tasks • Evaluate the terms provided by PSD • Identify additional terminology • Suggest the form of the authorized term and references in a report to PSD

23. Genre/Form Terms General terms project • Undertaken in cooperation with SGFI • Potential genre/form terms Dictionaries Guidebooks Encyclopedias Handbooks

24. Genre/Form Terms MARBI discussion papers • Inclusion of additional aspects in MARC bibliographic and authority records • DP03: Chronological aspects • DP04: Audience characteristics • DP05: Creator/contributor groups

25. Questions?