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Subcommittee on MARC Formats
2000 Annual Report
Members: Kathryn P. Glennan (Chair), Janet Bochin, Paul
Cauthen, Paul Frank, Alice LaSota, Ralph
As the MLA representative, Kathy
Glennan attended the MARBI/MARC Advisory Committee meetings during ALA Midwinter and
Annual meetings. At the January 2000
meetings, MARBI approved encoding URL/URN (now known collectively as URI) links in fields
other than just 856, specifically 505, 514, 520, 530, 545, and 552. The group agreed to the principle that a label be
supplied in each field where a URI is defined, either as an indicator or a subfield for a
textual note. During the July meetings, MARBI approved adding a subfield to field 856 for
link text, to be displayed instead of the URI. Also
at these meetings, MARBI continued to discuss the implications for changes in MARC when
seriality changes are incorporated into AACR2.
At the Subcommittee's open meeting in
Louisville, we continued with the BCC theme of metadata.
Eric Childress of OCLC spoke about the Dublin Core standards and how they
relate to MARC 21. Stephen Davison gave an
overview of EAD. A panel discussion featuring
Scott Landvetter (University of Chicago), R. Wayne Shoaf (University of Southern
California) and Lois Schultz (Duke University) addressed different uses of metadata in
their institutions.
During the summer, we received word
from the Library of Congress that they had followed our recommendation to remove the
"Compact disc" example from the Systems Detail Note (field 538) in MARC 21
Bibliographic.
The New York open meeting will feature
the usual review of MARBI activities and late-breaking MARC issues.
Submitted by Kathryn P. Glennan
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