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DATE: May 23, 2024
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NAME: Adding Subfield $3 to Fields 508 and 511 in the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format
SOURCE: PCC Standing Committee on Standards
SUMMARY: This paper considers adding subfield $3 (Materials specified) in fields 508 (Creation/Production Credits Note) and 511 (Participant or Performer Note) in the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format.
KEYWORDS: Field 508 (BD); Creation/Production Credits Note (BD); Field 511 (BD); Participant or Performer Note (BD); Subfield $3, in field 508 (BD); Subfield $3, in field 511 (BD); Materials specified (BD)
STATUS/COMMENTS:
05/23/24 – Made available to the MARC community for discussion.
06/25/24 – Results of MARC Advisory Committee discussion: There was strong general support for the paper. In a straw poll, the committee voted in favor of processing the paper as a Fast-Track proposal. The paper was referred to the MARC Steering Group for final processing and approval as a Fast-Track proposal.
Field 508 in the MARC Bibliographic Format is used to record persons or organizations, other than members of the cast, who have participated in the creation and/or production of a resource. It is defined as follows:
Field 511 in the MARC Bibliographic Format is used to record information about the participants, players, narrators, presenters, or performers of a resource. It is defined as follows:
Together, fields 508 and 511 have similar scopes and applications. They are frequently used to record names of participants, performers, narrators, and other creative, technical, and production credits, especially for moving image, performed music, and spoken word resources.
Subfield $3 is defined in a large number of fields throughout the MARC Authority, Bibliographic, and Holdings Formats, but is not present in these fields. Although there is some variation in its definition across different fields, it is generally defined as follows:
$3 - Materials specified (NR)
Part of the described materials to which the field applies.
The definition of subfield $3 (Materials specified) in fields 508 and 511 was considered, and rejected, by MARBI in Proposal 2002-02. At that time, MARBI participants did not feel there was an immediate need for the definition of subfields $u, $y or $3 in fields 508 and 511, but indicated that the proposal may be raised in the future when a need for the subfields is expressed. This discussion paper attempts to express the need for subfield $3 in these fields. We are not reconsidering the other subfields $u or $y as proposed in 2002-02 at this time. We consider the use case for $3 to be primarily a matter of consistency across the MARC formats, but the specific use case for subfield $3 in fields 508 and 511 is especially clear for compilations or aggregates, as illustrated in the examples below.
We note also that subfield $7 (Data provenance) is defined in field 508 but not 511 despite the other similarities between these two fields. Subfield $7 in field 511 will be considered in a separate paper, 2024-DP08.
In fields 508 (Creation/Production Credits Note) and 511 (Participant or Performer Note) of the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format, define the following new subfield:
$3 - Materials specified (NR)
Part of the described materials to which the field applies.
Example 1:
508 ## $3 Yellow aria: $a Camera, Marion Swartz.
508 ## $3 Oyster bar: $a Cinematography, Terre Richards.
511 1# $3 Yellow aria: $a Marcello Sinicomio, Gabriella Grassia, Diviana Ingravallo, Zsuzsa Koszegi.
511 1# $3 Oyster bar: $a Anne E. Osborn, John A. Moody.
[A videorecording that includes two productions]
Example 2:
511 0# $3 Japanese language version: $a Voice cast: Irino Miyu, Hayami Saori, Yūki Aoi, Ono Kenshō, Kaneko Yūki, Han Megumi, Toyonaga Toshiyuki.
511 0# $3 English language version: $a Voice cast: Lexi Cowden, Robbie Daymond, Ryan Shanahan, Kira Buckland, Gia Grace, Amber Lee Connors.
[An animated movie with separate voice casts for the Japanese language original and the English language dub]
Example 3:
511 1# $3 What a girl wants: $a Amanda Bynes, Colin Firth, Kelly Preston, Eileen Atkins, Anna Chancellor, Jonathan Pryce.
511 1# $3 Chasing liberty: $a Mandy Moore, Matthew Goode, Jeremy Piven, Annabella Sciorra, Caroline Goodall, Mark Harmon.
[A DVD containing two films]
The BIBFRAME data conversion programs create a bflc:appliesTo resource for data in $3. MARC fields 508 and 511 are converted to the bf:credits property, which is a literal property, and the bflc:appliesTo construct cannot be used with literal properties. However, the conversion of MARC fields 508 and 511 could be changed to incorporate the $3 data.
6.1. Do you agree that there is a need for subfield $3 in Bibliographic fields 508 and 511?
6.2. Should MAC consider these subfields as candidates for fast-track additions to the MARC Bibliographic Format?
6.3. Are there any potential consequences that this paper does not address?
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