LC Update to the Authority Control Interest Group 2012 ALA Annual Conference Janis L. Young Policy and Standards Division Library of Congress jayo@loc.gov

Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative LC has contracted with Zepheira Zepheira team led by Eric Miller will provide A model (or models) to serve as starting points for discussion An analysis of related initiatives underway that will be useful to this effort

Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative LC will enable community participation International users and partners Various types of information agencies and libraries Library suppliers Information will be posted at www.loc.gov/marc/transition

Romanization Tables Tables posted on the ALA-LC Romanization Tables website New tables Moroccan Tamazight Shan Syriac Revisions to existing tables Bulgarian Khmer Russian

Romanization Tables Tables currently under constituent review New tables Cherokee Manchu Revisions to existing tables Arabic Japanese Belarusian

Romanization Tables Tables that will be posted for constituent review Kazakh in Arabic script (new) Lepcha (revision)

Taiwanese Place Names Name and subject headings for geographic places in Taiwan should now be established using the Pinyin romanization scheme Including all jurisdictions, quasi-jurisdictions, and features Subject Headings Manual H 690 will be revised LC staff will examine the existing headings and update them as necessary

LCC in Authorities & Vocabularies Four LC classification schedules have been added as a beta test B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion M Music and books on music N Fine arts Z Bibliography. Library science. Information resources (General) Schedules may be searched by caption Bulk download of the schedules is not available

LC Classification: KIA-KIK Law of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas: North America (KIA-KIK) Draft available on LC’s web site at http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/kia_draft.html Comment period closed May 20, 2012 Questions: Jolande Goldberg, jgol@loc.gov

LCSH: Orphan Headings Investigating the possibility of adding BTs to categories of orphan headings To more closely align with ANSI/NISO Z39.19-2005 To enhance the usefulness of LCSH on the Semantic Web

072 Fields in Subject Authorities Experiment to add subject category codes (MARC 21 field 072) to subject authorities To enhance usability of LCSH on the Semantic Web Requires automatic heading generation To allow systems to suggest appropriate subdivisions to catalogers To improve automatic validation of heading strings

072 Fields in Subject Authorities 072 field will contain Subject Headings Manual instruction sheet numbers for free-floating and pattern lists of subdivisions Will indicate into which list(s) a heading falls Will correlate to the 073 fields (subdivision usage), already present in subdivision records

072 Fields in Subject Authorities Subdivision 073 ## $a H 1150 $z lcsh 180 ## $x Patients 680 ## $i Use as a topical subdivision under individual diseases and types of diseases. Heading 072 #7 $a H 1150 $2 lcsh 150 ## $a Autoimmune diseases Generated heading string 650 #0 $a Autoimmune diseases $x Patients.

072 Fields in Subject Authorities Experiment parameters PSD subject policy specialists will add 072 fields as time permits Proposals that appear on Tentative Monthly Lists and headings that are directly encountered during vetting of the Lists will be eligible Straightforward instruction sheets will be included Only subject authority records may include 072 fields; 072 fields may not be added to name authorities at this time

072 Fields in Subject Authorities Will allow programmers to experiment with using the data to create linkages Success or failure will help inform PSD’s decision on whether to continue If successful The project will likely be broadened to include other stakeholders Problematic instruction sheets will be addressed

Genre/Form Terms Cartography project Proposal Broaden meaning of Globes and assign it to all globes Cancel Lunar globes Post-coordinate with the subject heading for the body represented

Genre/Form Terms Cartography project Assignment of headings Title: [Globe of Ganymede]. 651 #0 $a Ganymede (Satellite) $v Globes. 655 #7 $a Globes. $2 lcgft Title: [Globe of the Earth]. 651 #0 $a Earth $v Globes.

Genre/Form Terms Cartography project Discussion paper: Proposed Treatment of Globes in the LCGFT Environment http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/genre_form_globes.pdf Comments accepted through July 31, 2012

Genre/Form Terms Music genre/form project Collaboration between the Music Library Association (MLA) and LC Have agreed to over 600 terms to date

Genre/Form Terms Music medium of performance project Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus for Music (LCMPT) Collaboration between LC and MLA MARC coding Bibliographic records: tag 382 Authority records MARBI DP02: Authority records for music medium of performance terms

Genre/Form Terms Literature project Undertaken in cooperation with the ALCTS/SAC Subcommittee on Genre/Form Implementation (SGFI) Working Group on LCGFT Literature Terms PSD provided a seed list of approximately 550 LCSH form headings

Genre/Form Terms Literature project Working Group’s tasks Evaluate the terms provided by PSD Identify additional terminology Suggest the form of the authorized term and references in a report to PSD

Genre/Form Terms General terms project Undertaken in cooperation with SGFI Potential genre/form terms Dictionaries Guidebooks Encyclopedias Handbooks

Genre/Form Terms MARBI discussion papers Inclusion of additional aspects in MARC bibliographic and authority records DP03: Chronological aspects DP04: Audience characteristics DP05: Creator/contributor groups

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