The MARC Advisory Committee (MAC) is the committee
that will now oversee changes to the MARC21 format. No more
MARBI reports.
There's a fairly short agenda this time with three
proposals and four discussion papers. On Saturday morning,
we're scheduled to take up Discussion Paper 2014-DP03
"Miscellaneous information" in Topical Terms and Geographic
Name Fields of the MARC 21 Bibliographic and Authority
Formats. This comes from the German National Library which
wants to be able to separate qualifying information from
topical terms and geographic headings. They've been using $g
for miscellaneous information which isn't currently defined in
the 150 and 151 fields in the Authorities format or the 650
and 651 fields in the Bibliographic format. Since it's a
discussion paper, we won't vote on it this conference. But it
would result in the heading 151 $aNew York $g State if
approved.
On Sunday afternoon, there's nothing specifically
geographic or cartographic.
It's interesting to note that in an apparent nod to the
future, all proposals and discussion papers now have a section
labelled "Bibframe discussion".
Susan Moore
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA 50613