-------- Original Message -------- Subject: MARBI items of potential interest to the cartographic community Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:07:07 -0500 From: Susan Moore <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] It looks as if MARC Advisory Committee may only be meeting once this ALA annual. All the agenda items are listed for Saturday morning with Sunday afternoon set aside for continuing the discussion from the previous meeting. So if we get everything done on Saturday, we won't be meeting Sunday. Proposal 2010-08 suggests adding a $7 to the 034 field in the bibliographic and authority formats to provide data of the encoding scheme for the coordinates so that processing can be done without human intervention. A code list will have to be created but the proposal mentions the possibility of using "dd" for decimal degrees and "dms" for degrees, minutes, and seconds. Proposal 2010-06 concerns encoding the International Standard Name Identifier in the bibliographic and authority formats. It would define $0 for recording the authority record control number or standard number preceded by the MARC code for the agency to which the control number applies. This will allow for easier automated processing. Proposal 2010-07 would add a code to the Leader/18 (Descriptive cataloging form) in the bibliographic format that would indicate that the record uses ISBD punctuation except for the ends of subfields. The proposal comes from the German National Library where some ending punctuation hasn't been used. Full copies of the proposals and discussion papers can be found at: http://www.loc.gov/marc/marbi/an2010_age.html Susan Moore University of Northern Iowa Cedar Falls, IA 50613 [log in to unmask]