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Updates on MARC 21 Standards from the 2010 Forum: Key Changes and Discussions

This presentation overview covers the maintenance and updates of MARC 21, focusing on key changes and discussions from the 2010 MARBI meetings. It includes information on RDA-related proposals and changes in MARC 21 formats, such as new data elements, encoding URIs, and improvements to the bibliographic format. Additionally, it addresses recent updates to MODS and the Authorities & Vocabularies Service. Relevant guidelines for proposing changes and engaging with the MARC community are provided for further involvement.

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Updates on MARC 21 Standards from the 2010 Forum: Key Changes and Discussions

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  1. MARC 21 UpdateStandards Forum13th September 2010 Alan Danskin / Corine Deliot Metadata Standards Team Collection Acquisition & Description British Library

  2. Presentation Overview • Brief overview of how MARC 21 is maintained • RDA papers • Non RDA-related papers • Other news

  3. MARBI2010 – Meetings • Machine Readable Bibliographic Information committee • 15th-19th Jan. 2010, ALA Midwinter Conference, Boston. • 24th-29th June 2010, ALA Annual Conference, Washington. http://www.loc.gov/marc/development.html BIC Bibliographic Standards Group • 11th Jan. 2010/15th June 2010 http://www.bic.org.uk/16/Bibliographic-Standards/

  4. RDA Proposals • RDA/MARC Working Group established in March 2008. • 2010-04: New data elements in the MARC 21 Authority and Bibliographic Format for works and expressions  (as amended) • 2010-03: Recording Place and Date of Capture in the MARC21 Bibliographic Format.  (as amended) • Documentation summarising RDA-related format changes (up to May 2010) is available at: http://www.loc.gov/marc/RDAinMARC29.html

  5. RDA Discussion Papers • 2010-DP02: Encoding URIs for controlled values in MARC 21 records

  6. Other Proposals • 2010-01: Defining codes for online and direct access electronic resources in 008/23 and 008/29 (Form of item)  (as amended) • 2010-06: Encoding the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) in the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format  • 2010-07: ISBD punctuation in the MARC 21 in the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format  (as amended)

  7. Other Proposals • 2010-02: Addition of subfield $5 (Institution to which field applies) in the 80X-830 Series Added Entry Fields of the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format  • 2010-05: Adding subfield $3 (Materials specified) to field 034 (Coded Cartographic Mathematical Data) in the MARC 21 Bibliographic and Authority Format  • 2010-08: Encoding Scheme of Coordinate Data in field 034 (Coded Cartographic Mathematical Data) of the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format. x • 2010-09: Addition of subfield $u to Field 561 (Ownership and Custodial History) to the MARC 21 Bibliographic and Holdings Formats. 

  8. Other Discussion Papers • 2010-DP04: Encoding the International Standard Text Code (ISTC) in the MARC21 Bibliographic and Authority Formats. • 2010-DP05: Language Coding for Moving Images in Field 041 of the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format.

  9. Other News • MODS update • MODS version 3.4 schema now available – backward compatible with version 3.3 • A new major revision of MODS with more substantive changes currently under discussion. • Authorities & Vocabularies Service • http://id.loc.gov launched in April 2009 • includes LCSH expressed using SKOS • Recently added The Thesaurus for Graphic Materials, the MARC Code List for Relators, Preservation Events, Cryptographic Hash Functions, and Preservation Level Roles.

  10. Andfinally … • If you would like to propose changes to the MARC format, http://www.bic.org.uk/16/Bibliographic-Standards/ 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? • alan.danskin@bl.uk

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