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Subject: Items of interest to the cartographic cataloging community
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 11:24:27 -0600
From: Susan Moore <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
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There is one proposal before the Machine-Readable Bibliographic
Information Committee (affectionately known as MARBI) of particular
interest to the cartographic community. Proposal 2005-04 concerns the
usage of hierarchical geographic names and proposes that Field 662
(Subject added entry - hierarchical place name) be created to allow a
hierarchical approach to subject-oriented geographic coverage.

There was a discussion paper and a proposal on this topic prior to the
current proposal so you may remember this coming up before. The prior
proposal had given some options and the option of creating a new field
was approved in part at the Orlando meeting.

Another proposal that may be of interest (though not strictly dealing
with maps) is Proposal 2005-02 which would define subfield y in Fields
020 and 010 to contain either an ISBN (for Field 020) or LCCN (for Field
010) that is a valid number but is not unique or does not apply to the
manifestation being described. This would give us a definite place to
put those ISBNs that publishers re-use.

Also, IFLA has released the draft of the International Standard
Bibliographic Description for Cartographic Materials to world-wide
review. Comments are due by March 31, 2005 and the draft can be found at
http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/pubs/ISBD(CM)_21Dec04.rtf

Finally, the MARC code lists for Relators, Sources, and Description
Conventions have been updated and two codes for the U.S. National
Gazetteer have been added. They are:

natgazfid - U.S. National Gazetteer Feature Name
Identifier; field 024, subfield $2 (Other Standard Identifier) in
Bibliographic and Holdings records

natgaz - U.S. National Gazetteer Feature Name Identifier -
Code natgaz signifies that the heading (geographic feature name) for the
record has been approved by the U.S. Board of Geographic Names for
inclusion in the National Gazetteer maintained by the U.S. Geological
Survey. The name is the official name for a U.S. geographic feature. It
is for general use and for use in Federal printed and electronic
products; field 042 (Authentication Code).


Susan Moore
Rod Library
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA  50613
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