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DATE: May 27, 2016
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NAME: Defining New Subfields $i and $4 in Field 386 of the MARC 21 Bibliographic and Authority Formats
SOURCE: ALCTS Subject Analysis Committee Subcommittee on Genre/Form Implementation
SUMMARY: This paper discusses adding subfields $i (Relationship information) and $4 (Relationship code) to field 386 (Creator/Contributor Characteristics) in the MARC 21 Bibliographic and Authority Formats. The subfields will be used to provide a note or relationship designator term or code that may be used to clarify the relationship of the creator/contributor terms recorded in the field to the resource being described.
KEYWORDS: Field 386 (BD, AD); Creator/Contributor Characteristics (BD, AD); Creator Categorizations (BD, AD); Contributor Categorizations (BD, AD); Group Categories of Persons (BD, AD); Subfield $i, in field 386 (BD, AD); Relationship information (BD, AD); Subfield $4, in field 386; Relationship code (BD, AD); Relationship Designators (BD, AD)
RELATED: 2013-06
STATUS/COMMENTS:
05/27/16 – Made available to the MARC community for discussion.
06/26/16 – Results of MARC Advisory Committee discussion: There was general support for the paper and it will return as a proposal. Regarding question 5.3., the committee agreed that while there is a case for defining subfields $i and $4 in field 386, the same does not apply to field 385 (Audience Characteristics).
MARC Proposal 2013-06 established field 386 (Creator/Contributor Characteristics) in the Authority and Bibliographic Formats. The field has the following subfields:
$a - Creator/contributor term (R)
$b - Creator/contributor code (R)
$m - Demographic group term (NR)
$n - Demographic group code (NR)
$0 - Authority record control number or standard number (R)
$2 - Source (NR)
$3 - Materials specified (NR)
$6 - Linkage (NR)
$8 - Field link and sequence number (R)
As catalogers have begun using this field, it has become obvious that there are situations where it would useful to be able to explain the relationship between a term recorded in the field and its relationship to the resource. For example, creators of and contributors to resources are not necessarily responsible for all aspects of a resource. A work may have creators who have different demographic characteristics and whose roles may be different (for example, a work created jointly by a child interviewer and an adult interviewee; a graphic novel written by an American woman and drawn by a Japanese man). The contributors to an expression of a work may not have the same characteristics as the creators (for example, a musical work created by a French composer performed by an American children’s choir; a translation by a Briton of a novel written by a Russian). Currently there is no way to express these differences of characteristics related to the roles of the persons involved.
Subfields $i (Relationship information) and $4 (Relationship code) are defined in other fields in the MARC formats and if added to field 386 could be used to record a note or relationship designator or relator code to allow catalogers to specify the relationship between a demographic characteristic and the role of the creator or contributor in the creation of a work or expression.
Potential Proposed Changes:
Define new subfields $i and $4 in field 386 in both Bibliographic and Authority format:
$i - Relationship information (R)
Designation of a relationship between the demographic characteristics recorded in the field and the role of the creators or contributors with those characteristics in relation to the work or expression being described. This may be an uncontrolled textual phrase or a controlled textual value from a list of relationships between bibliographic resources.$4 - Relationship code (R)
MARC code that specifies the relationship between the demographic characteristics recorded in the field and the role of the creators or contributors with those characteristics in relation to the work or expression being described.
There are two ways the proposed new coding could be employed, both of which are illustrated in the examples. The coding could be used to supply demographic characterizations of group creator/contributors, such as specifying the age group of an unnamed performing choir. It could also be used to supply demographic characterizations of individuals or of named bodies when the role specifications for an entity's access point and for the 386 field can be matched unambiguously. Deciding how to employ the coding if approved will be up to communities of practice.
Some of the relationship designators used in the examples have been drawn from RDA. Others might be found in another controlled list of terms or are uncontrolled textual phrases. Codes used are from the MARC Code List for Relators.
3.1. Bibliographic Records
i) Seal for a pal : a story of the Pribilof Islands, Alaska / by Paul Eric Layman ; illustrated by Aleut children of St. Paul Island
386 ## $i Illustrator: $a Aleuts $a Children $a Saint Paul Island, Alaska, residents $2 [source code for controlled vocabulary]
ii) Hagadah shel Pesaḥ = The Passover Haggadah. All illustrations by autistic children.
386 ## $i Illustrations: $a Autistics $a Children $2 [source code for controlled vocabulary]
iii) Legends of New Caledonia : a collection of legends from the Isle of Pines / translated by Hilary Roots and illustrated by the children of the island
386 ## $4 trl $a New Zealanders $a Women $2 [source code for controlled vocabulary]
386 ## $4 ill $a Children $a New Caledonians $a Kunies $2 [source code for controlled vocabulary]iv) Christmas with the children of France. Traditional carols sung by a French children's choir
386 ## $i Performer: $a Children $a French $2 [source code for controlled vocabulary]
v) Totus tuus : choral music / Henryk Górecki. Performed by The National Youth Choir of Great Britain, Mike Brewer, conductor
386 ## $4 cmp $a Poles $a Men $2 [source code for controlled vocabulary]
386 ## $4 cnd $a Britons $a Men $2 [source code for controlled vocabulary]
386 ## $4 prf $a Britons $a Children $a Teenagers $a Young adults $2 [source code for controlled vocabulary]vi) Raising Ryland : our story of parenting a transgender child with no strings attached / Hillary Whittington with Krissy Gasbarre. Whittington is the parent of the child in question; Gasbarre is a journalist who assisted in the writing
386 ## $i First author: $a Mothers $a Parents of transgender children $2 [source code for controlled vocabulary]
vii) Twentieth-century Russian drawings from a private collection : February 28-April 13, 1997, the Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas / exhibition curated by Victor Koshkin-Youritzin ; catalogue essays by Victor Koshkin-Youritzin and Alexander Shikhman
386 ## $i Artists: $a Russians $2 [source code for controlled vocabulary]
386 ## $i Curator, $i Essayist (Koshkin-Youritzin): $a Oklahomans $a College teachers $a Photographers $2 [source code for controlled vocabulary]
386 ## $i Essayist (Shikhman): $a Californians $a Rheumatologists $2 [source code for controlled vocabulary]
3.2. Authority Records
i) A collection of traditional carols sung by a French children’s choir
130 #0 $a Christmas with the children of France
386 ## $i Performer: $a Children $a French $2 [source code for controlled vocabulary]ii) An interview of a German filmmaker by a British film historian
100 1# $a Herzog, Werner, $d 1942- $t Herzog on Herzog
400 1# $a Cronin, Paul. $t Herzog on Herzog
386 ## $i Interviewee: $a Germans $a Men $a Motion picture directors $2 [source code for controlled vocabulary]
386 ## $i Interviewer: $a Britons $a Men $a Film historians $2 [source code for controlled vocabulary]iii) A translation by a Mexican of a work by an American
100 1# $a Anderson, Poul, $d 1926-2001. $t Time patrol. $l Spanish $s (Escalera)
500 1# $w r $i Translator: $a Escalera, Manuel de la, $d 1895-1994
386 ## $4 trl $a Mexicans $2 [source code for controlled vocabulary]iv) A work by an ancient Roman edited by a French scholar
100 1# $a Cicero, Marcus Tullius. $t De officiis. $l Latin $s (Testard)
500 1# $w r $i Editor: $a Testard, Maurice, $d 1921-2006
386 ## $i Editor: $a French $2 [source code for controlled vocabulary]v) A series of cello scores by different composers edited by an English woman
130 #0 $a Schott cello series
500 1# $w r $i Editor: $a Dinn, Freda
386 ## $4 edt $n nat $a English $2 [source code for controlled vocabulary]
386 ## $4 edt $n gdr $a Women $2 [source code for controlled vocabulary]vi) An arrangement by a Catalan of a work by a French composer
100 1# $a Fauré, Gabriel, $d 1845-1924. $t Après un rêve; $o arranged $s (Casals)
500 1# $w r $i Arranger of music: $a Casals, Pablo, $d 1876-1973
386 ## $i Arranger of music: $a Catalans $a Men $a Cellists $2 [source code for controlled vocabulary]
There are several situations in the proposal for specification of associations between Works and Agents. Each would need to be analyzed but the data in MARC will assist in the transformation of that data to BIBFRAME.
5.1. Do you agree that there is a need to be able to indicate role relationships in some situations when demographic group characteristics are recorded in field 386?
5.2. Are subfields $i and $4 the best solution? Would some other subfield(s) be preferable (e.g., $z for notes)? Are subfields $i and $4 all that is needed?
5.3. Can you conceive needing relationship information recorded also in field 385 (Audience Characteristics)? Should any subfields added to 386 also be added to 385?
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