There's a fairly light load of proposals and discussion papers this Midwinter, with three of each.
Proposal 2019-01 covers ways to designate open access and license information for remote online resources. The proposal would add to the definition of the first indicators of Field 506 (additions in bold), making the definitions for first indicator 0 "Field affirms an absence of access restrictions, e.g. open access." and for first indicator 1 Field defines access restrictions to some or all of the material described, e.g. restricted or closed access." It is also proposed the add $g availability date and $q supplying agency to the field. Subfield $f (Standardized terminology for access restriction) and $2 (Source of code) are proposed to be added to field 540. It is suggested that both of these fields be added to the Holdings Format. Finally, the proposal would at a $7 to field 856 that would contain a numeric code to indicate restricted or open access to a remote electronic resource.
Discussion Paper 2019-DP01 explores adding a code to indicate whether an online resources is hosted internally or by a third party. The possibilities of adding a code to one of the positions in field 008 of the Holdings format is explored.
Proposal 2019-02 would add $2 Source of name or name-title heading to fields 1XX, 240, 7XX and 8XX to provide a way to specify the source vocabulary for the name or name-title heading.
Proposal 2019-03 would add to the 024 field in the Authority format $0 for URIs that identify a "Record" or "Authority" entity describing a Thing and $1 for URIs that directly identify a Thing itself. This comes from Discussion Paper 2018-DP08
Discussion Paper 2019 seeks to define a field for a subject added entry of unknown entity type. This comes from the German National Library that uses records that use subject thesauri that don't break their terms down by topical, persona name, conference name, etc. Options presented are adding $0, $1, and $2 to field 653 (Index Term - Uncontrolled) (this might require redefining the field) or defining a new field in the 6XX range.
Susan Moore
MAGIRT representative to the MARC Advisory Committee