-------- Original Message -------- 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]> References: <[log in to unmask]> ------------------ 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 [log in to unmask]