-------- Original Message -------- Subject: MARBI papers of possible interest to the cartographic community Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 09:35:53 -0600 From: Susan Moore <[log in to unmask]> To: Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]> Thanks to Jimmie Lundgren who posted last week about the discussion paper (2006-DP01) about adding geographic coordinates to MARC authority records. As you might expect, that is probably the paper that is of chief interest to the cartographic community. There are a couple of other items coming before MARBI that people might be interested in expressing an opinion on. Proposal 2006-03 (Standardized terminology for access restrictions in field 506 in the bibliographic format) comes from the DLF/OCLC Digital Registry Working Group. The concept behind the proposal is to have a standard subfield in field 506 (restrictions on access) to help with the creation of a Registry of Digital Masters that is being devised by the working group sponsoring the proposal. They propose adding a subfield f and providing a controlled list of access terms for the subfield. They haven't fully discussed the list of terms yet, but the examples given in the proposal have a digital slant to them. There is another discussion paper that might be of interest. 2006-DP03 comes from the Program for Cooperative Cataloging, Task Group on the Function of the Authority File and discusses the incorporation of former heading information in authority records. Currently, the former heading is not always recorded in the authority record for the new heading (particularly in subject and personal name authority records). Let me know if you have any thoughts or comments on these. Susan Moore Map and Geography Round Table liaison to MARBI University of Northern Iowa Cedar Falls, IA 50613 [log in to unmask]