MARC 21 Update Standards Forum 13 th September 2010

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