Catherine Argus National Library of Australia Recent developments with IFLA standards, MARC21, and...

Catherine ArgusNational Library of Australia

Recent developments with IFLA standards, MARC21,

and LCSH

ACOC seminar, 21 October 2010

“FRBR family”Functional Requirements for Subject

Authority Data (FRSAD)what the subject authority data/record/file

aims to provide information about and should achieve in terms of answering user needs.

http://www.ifla.org/node/1297Next step

FRBR Review Group will work to harmonise and consolidate FRBR, FRAD and FRSAD


Multilingual Dictionary of Cataloguing Terms and Concepts

Definitions for many terms and concepts used by the library cataloguing community in English and 24 other languagesincludes terms from the International

Cataloguing Principles, ISBD, FRBR and FRADhttp://www.ifla.org/publications/multilingual-

dictionary-of-cataloguing-terms-and-concepts-muldicat


Names of persons : national usages for entry in catalogues

Currently being revised and updatedhttp://www.ifla.org/en/node/4953

Change of titleNames of persons : national usages for

bibliographic and authority data


International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD)

First revision of the Consolidated ISBD since publication in 2007New edition will be published 2011

ISBD examples also being reviewed


Codes for “online access” and “direct access” in 008 & 006

Codes to clearly identify if electronic resources are online or direct access"q" (direct electronic)"o" (online)

New values have been defined for 008/23 and 008/29 (Form of item)

008/22 (Form of original item) for Continuing resources (006/05)

"s" (Electronic) will remain for those institutions not requiring the level of granularity provided by the two new codes


Encoding the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI)

The International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) is a draft ISO Standard (ISO 27729) the identification of the identities used

publicly by parties involved throughout the media content industries in the creation, production, management, and content distribution chains

Consists of 16 decimal digitshttp://www.isni.org


Example of ISNI

020 ## $a0140433260 (pbk.) :$c£4.99100 1# $aTrollope, Anthony,$d1815-1882.$0(isni)1234567899999799 [ISNI for Anthony Trollope]245 10 $aDoctor Thorne /$cAnthony Trollope ; with an introduction and notes by Ruth Rendell.260 ## $aLondon :$bPenguin,$c1991.700 1# $aRendell, Ruth,$d1930-$0(isni)8462832856536435 [ISNI for Ruth Rendell]


Encoding the International Standard Text Code (ISTC)

The International Standard Text Code (ISO 21047) is a global identification system for textual works intended for publicationprose; poetry; lyrics (for sung musical works);

screen, audio and stage scripts and other scripts (e.g. sermons, speeches, etc.).

consists of 16 numbers and/or lettershttp://www.istc-international.org/html/


Example of ISTC024 7# $a0A3200912355D67A$2istc [ISTC for

the work “The Second World War” abridged]100 1# $aChurchill, Winston,$d1874-1965.245 14 $aThe Second World War /$cWinston Churchill ; [abridgement by Denis Kelly]250 ## $aIllustrated and abridged ed.260 ## $aHoo :$bGrange,$cc2003.700 1# $aKelly, Denis.787 18 $iRelated source work$oISTC 0A420075436B9846 [ISTC for the work “The Second World War”]


Subject headings for cooking and cookbooks

Cookbooksestablished as topical subject heading and

genre/form heading“Cooking” replaces “Cookery” in subject

headingsCooking for the sick (May Subd Geog)Cooking (Asparagus)

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/h1475.html


Library of Congress’ form/genre project

5 year projectMoving images and radio programmesCartographyLawLiteratureMusicReligion

Form and genre thesaurus separate from LCSHLibrary of Congress Genre/Form Terms for

Library and Archival Materials, or LCGFT.


Genre/form headings & MARC

655 #0 $a Horror films

655 #7 $a Horror films. $2 lcgft


Identifying LC authorities for genre/form headings


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