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RDA/MARC Working Group Update

Under the auspices of the British Library, the Library and Archives Canada, and the Library of Congress, an RDA/MARC Working Group has been established to collaborate on the development of proposals for changes to the MARC 21 formats to accommodate the encoding of RDA data.

Although the MARC 21 formats support the encoding of descriptions created according to a wide range of content standards, the close relationship between AACR and MARC 21 has contributed to the efficient exchange of information among libraries for decades. The RDA/MARC Working Group will identify what changes are required to MARC 21 to support compatibility with RDA and ensure effective data exchange into the future.

Members of the RDA/MARC Working Group are:

Everett Allgood (New York University and CC:DA Liaison to MARBI)
Corine Deliot (British Library)
John Espley (VTLS and AVIAC representative to MARBI)
Kathy Glennan (University of Maryland)
Rich Greene (OCLC)
Rebecca Guenther (Library of Congress)
Reinhold Heuvelmann (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek)
Rhonda Lawrence (University of California, Los Angeles)
Bill Leonard (Library and Archives Canada)
Sally McCallum (Library of Congress)
Bill Moen (University of North Texas, School of Library and Information Sciences)
Marg Stewart (JSC Liaison to the RDA/MARC Working Group)
Martha Yee (UCLA Film and Television Archive)

For a listing of agreed changes to the MARC 21 formats to support encoding of RDA data see: http://www.loc.gov/marc/formatchanges-RDA.html

Discussion papers from the Group:

2009
2009-DP06/1: Encoding URIs for controlled values in MARC 21 records
2009-DP06/2: Enhancing Field 033 and Field 518 for Place and Date of Capture in the MARC21 Bibliographic Format
2009-DP06/3: New data elements in the MARC 21 Authority and Bibliographic Format for works and expressions
2009-DP01/1: Encoding URIs for controlled values in MARC records
2009-DP01/2: Relationship Designators for RDA Appendix J and K
2008
2008-DP05/1: Using RDA relationship designators between names and resources with MARC 21 records
2008-DP05/2: New data elements in the MARC 21 Authority Format
2008-DP05/3: Treatment of controlled lists of terms and coded data in RDA and MARC 21
2008-DP05/4 Items not requiring MARC 21 format changes for RDA
See also 2008-DP04: Encoding RDA, Resource Description and Access data in MARC 21

MARC Proposals from the Group:

2009
2009-06/1: Accommodating Relationship Designators for RDA Appendix J and K in MARC 21 Bibliographic and Authority Formats
2009-06/2: Transcribing Series and Subseries ISSNs
2009-06/3: New coded values for RDA media carriers in the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format
2009-01/1: New data elements in the MARC 21 Authority Format
2009-01/2: New content designation for RDA elements: Content type, Media Type, Carrier Type
2009-01/3: Identifying work, expression, and manifestation records in the MARC 21 Bibliographic and Authority formats
2008
2008-05/1: Encoding RDA: Introduction and Principles
2008-05/2: Identifying work and expression records in the MARC 21 Bibliographic and Authority formats
2008-05/3: New content designation for RDA elements: Content type, Media Type, Carrier Type
2008-05/4: Enhancing field 502 (Dissertation note) of the MARC 21 Bibliographic format







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