Miller, Caroline
Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:57:18 -0800
Heb-NACOers, I attended Dave Reser's presentation on this at ALA Midwinter in Philadelphia. OCLC will be "pre-populating" the non-roman fields from LC's (and other) bib records that contained non-roman name access points. I'm not sure about uniform titles and series titles (does anyone else know?). Hebrew access points were entered as found on the piece. The CJK community added dates and other info ($q, etc.) to more closely mirror the authorized access points. It will be interesting to see what the end result will be. I know that 4xx fields won't require a parallel Romanized field. I'm not sure whether the 670 and 675 fields will require a parallel Romanized field (does anyone know?). Wouldn't it be great if we could add all those honorifics without knowing what the Romanization would be??? Caroline Caroline R. Miller Head of Monographic Cataloging and Authority/Database Maintenance Sections UCLA Library Cataloging & Metadata Center BOX 957230 11020 Kinross Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90095-7230 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (310) 825-4446 Fax: (310) 794-9357 ________________________________ From: Program for Cooperative Cataloging [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David W Reser Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 2:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Announcement on non-Latin characters in name authority records Steven, We are expecting non-Latin references added by catalogers to be supported by 670 citations-- our initial thought is to allow non-Latin data in 667, 670, and 675 in addition to the 4XXs, with expansion to other fields in future phases if cases can be made for expanding. Note, however, that the plan for the initial automatic pre-population of the authority file from bibliographic data by OCLC identified in the white paper will be for 4XX references only (i.e., no attempt will be made to construct 670 citations for the pre-population), although a 667 field will be added to flag that the references came from that automatic process, as has been the practice for previous machine-derived additions. Hope that helps, Dave Reser LC CPSO >>> Steven Arakawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/15/08 2:17 PM >>> Assuming that one significant purpose of adding non-Latin characters as references in name authority records is to facilitate searching and entity identification by users who may not have expertise in Latin characters, I think it would be helpful to include the non-Latin form of the title in the 670 citation. Is this under consideration? At 12:50 PM 10/16/2007, you wrote: >Announcement on non-Latin characters in name authority records > >The major authority record exchange partners (British Library, Library >of Congress, National Library of Medicine, and OCLC, Inc., in >consultation with Library and Archives Canada) have agreed to a basic >outline that will allow for the addition of references with non-Latin >characters to name authority records that make up the LC/NACO Authority >File. > >While the romanized form will continue to be the authorized heading >(authority record 1XX field), NACO contributors will be able to add >references in non-Latin scripts following MARC 21*s *Model B* for >multi-script records. Model B provides for unlinked non-Latin script >fields with the same MARC tags used for romanized data, such as >authority record 4XX fields. > >Using Model B for authorities is a departure from the current >bibliographic record practice of many Anglo-American libraries where >non-Latin characters are exported as 880 fields (Alternate Graphic >Representation) using MARC 21*s *Model A* for multiscript >records. > >For the initial implementation period, the use of non-Latin scripts >will be limited to those scripts that are represented in the MARC-8 >repertoire (Japanese, Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Persian, Hebrew, Yiddish, >Cyrillic, and Greek). Although the exchange of authority records >between the NACO nodes will be in UTF-8, LC*s Cataloging Distribution >Service will continue to supply the MDS-Authorities weekly subscription >product in both UTF-8 and MARC-8 for some period of time. It is >expected that the use of non-Latin scripts beyond the MARC-8 repertoire >will be implemented in the future. > >Guidelines for use by catalogers in formulating non-Latin references >for authority records are still in progress. System vendors should be >prepared to handle authority records with non-Latin data no earlier than >April 2008. Test files will be made available prior to that time. > >Questions can be addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------- Steven Arakawa Catalog Librarian for Training & Documentation Catalog & Metadata Services, SML, Yale University P.O. Box 208240 New Haven, CT 06520-8240 (203)432-8286 [EMAIL PROTECTED]