1. MARC 21 Update UK Cataloguing & Indexing Standards Forum 13 September 2006 Corine Deliot Metadata Development Officer Collection Acquisition & Description

2. 2 MARBI 2006 Machine Readable Bibliographic Information committee 20 th -25 th January 2006 ALA (Midwinter), San Antonio, Texas. 22 nd -28 th June 2006 ALA (Annual), New Orleans, Louisiana. www.loc.gov/marc/development.html BIC BSG Meetings 12 th January & 6 th June

3. 3 Unicode MARC 21 character sets: MARC-8 (17,000 characters) Unicode (236,029; 50,635 in Basic Multilingual Plane) How to handle the transition to Unicode? Assessment of options for handling full Unicode character encodings in MARC 21: a study for the Library of Congress (part 1 and 2) Unicode-MARC discussion list

4. 4 Unicode Proposal 2006-04 Technique for conversion of Unicode to MARC-8 1. Drop the record 2. Drop the character 3. Use placeholder character 4. Substitute a Numeric Character Reference (NCR) &#xXXXX; where XXXX is the Unicode character code point in hexadecimal. Use placeholder character: vertical bar (ASCII hex 7C) Proposal 2006-09 Lossless Technique for Conversion of Unicode to MARC-8

5. 5 Proposals 2006 2006-01 Changes to accommodate IAML form/genre codes in field 047 in the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format (as amended) 2006-02 Adding subfields for relator terms to X11 fields in the Bibliographic and Authority formats. 2006-03 Standardized terminology for access restrictions in field 506 of the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format (as amended)

6. 6 Proposals 2006 2006-05 Changes to Holdings data fields to accommodate ONIX for Serials in the MARC 21 Holdings Format (approved in part) 2006-06 Definition of Field 034 for Geographic Coordinates in the MARC 21 Authority Format (as amended) 2006-07 Definition of subfield $u (URI) in Field 852 (Location) in the MARC 21 Bibliographic and Holdings Formats 2006-08 Addition of subfield $r in field 865 to accommodate date of issuance for indexes (as amended)

7. 7 Discussion papers 2006 2006-DP02 Addition of coded value to 008 for content alerts in the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format 2006-DP03/DP08 Techniques for incorporation of Former Headings into MARC 21 Authority Records 2006-DP04 Data elements needed to ascertain copyright facts

8. 8 Discussion papers 2006 2006-DP06 Defining separate subfields for language codes of Summaries/Abstracts and Subtitles/Captions in field 041 2006-DP07 Recording set information for multipart cartographic materials

9. 9 And finally … Next MARBI meeting at Midwinter 2007 will include: - RDA discussion papers - Papers to support the harmonisation process between MAB and MARC 21 National Library of Croatia is adopting MARC 21