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DATE: May 23, 2024
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NAME: Adding Subfields $i and $4 to Fields 368, 376, and 381 in the MARC 21 Authority and Bibliographic Formats
SOURCE: PCC Standing Committee on Standards
SUMMARY: This paper proposes adding subfield $i (Relationship information) and subfield $4 (Relationship) in fields 368 (Other Attributes of Person or Corporate Body) and 376 (Family Information) in the MARC 21 Authority Format, and in field 381 (Other Distinguishing Characteristics of Work or Expression) in the MARC 21 Authority and Bibliographic Formats.
KEYWORDS: Relationship information (AD, BD); Relationship (AD, BD); Field 368 (AD); Subfield $i, in Field 368 (AD); Subfield $4, in field 368 (AD); Other Attributes of Person or Corporate Body (AD); Field 376 (AD); Subfield $i, in Field 376 (AD); Subfield $4, in Field 376 (AD); Family Information (AD); Field 381 (AD, BD); Subfield $i, in Field 381 (AD, BD); Subfield $4, in Field 381 (AD, BD); Other Distinguishing Characteristics of Work or Expression (AD, BD)
RELATED: 2017-02; 2017-03; 2022-FT01
STATUS/COMMENTS:
05/23/24 – Made available to the MARC community for discussion.
06/25/24 – Results of MARC Advisory Committee discussion: MAC generally expressed reservations on the utility and application of these subfields. Ethical concerns regarding the deployment of the fields resurfaced, with some wondering whether the labels might introduce too much information that could be harmful. The utility/redundancy of the proposed subfields was taken up, with use cases across the fields debated but ultimately identified. The paper will return as a proposal.
Subfields $i and $4 for relationship information have been added to several 3XX fields in the Authority and Bibliographic Formats over time. Proposal 2017-02 added them to field 370 (Associated place) in both the Authority and Bibliographic Format. Proposal 2017-03 added them to field 386 (Creator/Contributor Characteristics) in both the Authority and Bibliographic Format. Most recently, 2022-FT01 added the same subfields to field 373 (Associated group) in the Authority Format.
This discussion paper considers adding relationship subfields $i and $4 to three additional 3XX fields in the MARC Bibliographic and Authority Formats, paralleling their application in fields 370, 373, and 386. These new subfields could be used in a relatively open-ended way to express a broader array of relationships that are not currently accommodated by another subfield or field elsewhere in the MARC Authority or Bibliographic Formats. First, in field 368, these subfields could express a relationship to an attribute or characteristic of a person or corporate body that is recorded in subfield $c of the field. Similarly, for families, the new relationship subfields can express a relationship to a designation for the family recorded in the recently-established subfield $d of field 376. Lastly, for works and expressions, the relationship subfields would relate to a characteristic recorded in subfield $a of field 381, in either the Bibliographic or Authority Format.
We also propose a minor revision to the definition of subfield $2 in field 368 to specify which subfields it controls, paralleling the definition of subfield $2 in other 3XX fields.
In combination with the existing 3XX fields in which subfields $i and $4 are already defined, these new subfields may also facilitate mapping relationship statements into MARC from other encoding formats, when they cannot be reliably mapped into a more specific field or subfield.
In field 368 (Other Attributes of Person or Corporate Body) of the Authority Format, define new subfields $i and $4 as follows:
$i - Relationship information (R)
Designation of a relationship between the other designation of person or corporate body recorded in subfield $c of the 368 field and the person or corporate body entity described in the record. This may be an uncontrolled textual phrase or a controlled textual value from a list of relationships.$4 - Relationship (R)
Code or URI that specifies the relationship from the entity described in the record to the entity referenced in subfield $c of the 368 field.
In field 368 (Other Attributes of Person or Corporate Body), update the definition of subfield $2 as follows (added text underlined):
$2 - Source (NR)
Identification of the source of terms in subfields $a, $b, $c, or $d when they are from a controlled list.
In field 376 (Family information) of the Authority Format, define new subfields $i and $4 as follows:
$i - Relationship information (R)
Designation of a relationship between the other designation of family recorded in subfield $d of the 376 field and the family entity described in the record. This may be an uncontrolled textual phrase or a controlled textual value from a list of relationships.$4 - Relationship (R)
Code or URI that specifies the relationship from the entity described in the record to the entity referenced in subfield $d of the 376 field.
In field 381 (Other Distinguishing Characteristics of Work or Expression) of the Authority and Bibliographic Formats, define new subfields $i and $4 as follows:
$i - Relationship information (R)
Designation of a relationship between the other distinguishing characteristic of work or expression recorded in subfield $a of the 381 field and the work or expression entity described in the record. This may be an uncontrolled textual phrase or a controlled textual value from a list of relationships.$4 - Relationship (R)
Code or URI that specifies the relationship from the entity described in the record to the entity referenced in subfield $a of the 381 field.
Example 1:
100 1# $a Keller, Helen, $d 1880-1968
368 ## $i Disability: $c Deafblind people $2 lcsh
368 ## $i Nationality: $c Americans $2 lcdgt
Example 2:
100 1# $a Sartre, Jean-Paul, $d 1905-1980
368 ## $i Citizenship: $c French $2 lcdgt $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/demographicTerms/dg2015060737
368 ## $i Religion or worldview: $c Atheists $2 afset $4 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/P140 $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/ethnographicTerms/afset000993
Example 3:
100 1# $a Kutsukake, Lynne
368 ## $i Nationality: $c Canadians $2 lcdgt $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/demographicTerms/dg2015060002
368 ## $i National/regional: $c Ontarians $2 lcdgt $4 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/demographicTerms/nat $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/demographicTerms/dg2015060188
368 ## $i National/regional: $c Torontonians $2 lcdgt $4 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/demographicTerms/nat $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/demographicTerms/dg2022060060
368 ## $i Ethnic group: $c Japanese Canadians $2 lcdgt $4 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/P172 $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/demographicTerms/dg2015060382
Example 4:
100 0# $a Benedict $b XVI, $c Pope, $d 1927-2022
368 ## $i Religion: $c Catholics $2 lcdgt $4 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/demographicTerms/rel
368 ## $i Nationality: $c Germans $2 lcdgt
368 ## $d Pope $s 2005 $t 2013
Example 5:
100 1# $a Harrison, Teva
368 ## $i Medical condition: $c Breast cancer patients $2 lcdgt $4 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/P1050 $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/demographicTerms/dg2015060144
Example 1:
100 3# $a Denney (Family : $g Denny, Anthony, 1501-1549)
376 ## $a Families $2 lcdgt
376 ## $b Denny, Anthony, 1501-1549 $2 naf
376 ## $i Citizenship: $d Britons $2 lcdgt
Example 2:
100 3# $a Nayak (Dynasty : $d 1529-1736 : $c Madurai, India)
376 ## $a Dynasty $2 wikidata $1 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q164950
376 ## $i Ethnic group: $d Telugu (Indic people) $2 lcsh $4 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/P172 $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85133682
376 ## $i Religion or worldview: $d Hindus $2 lcdgt $4 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/P140 $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/demographicTerms/dg2015060250
Example 3:
100 3# $a Kamehameha (Royal house : $d 1810-1872 : $c Hawaii)
376 ## $a Royal houses $2 lcsh $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115587
376 ## $b Kamehameha I, the Great, King of the Hawaiian Islands, -1819 $2 naf $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93094275 $1 http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n93094275
376 ## $i Ethnic/cultural: $d Hawaiians (Polynesian people) $2 lcdgt $4 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/demographicTerms/eth $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/demographicTerms/dg2015060376
Example 1:
130 #0 $a Report (New Mexico Chile Association)
380 ## $a Series (Publications) $a Monographic series $2 lcsh
381 ## $i Issuing agent: $a New Mexico Chile Association $2 naf $4 http://rdaregistry.info/Elements/u/P60467
Example 2:
100 1# $a Adler-Olsen, Jussi. $t Department Q novel. $h Spoken word $s (Dreamscape Media)
336 ## $a spoken word $2 rdacontent
370 ## $g Holland (Ohio) $2 naf
381 ## $i Publisher: $a Dreamscape Media $2 naf $4 http://rdaregistry.info/Elements/u/P60444 $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2011025469 $1 http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/no2011025469
Example 3:
130 #0 $a Herzog Ernst $s (Version B)
377 ## $a gmh
381 ## $i Edition/version: $a Version B $4 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/P9767
Example 4:
100 1# $a Langland, William, $d 1330?-1400?
240 10 $a Piers Plowman $s (C-text)
245 10 $a Piers Plowman / $c William Langland ; a new annotated edition of the C-text by Derek Pearsall.
260 ## $a Exeter, UK : $b University of Exeter Press, $c 2008.
381 ## $i Edition/version: $a C-text $4 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/P9767
Example 5:
130 0# $a Exorcist (Motion picture : $s Director's cut) $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2021144634
245 14 $a The exorcist : $b extended director's cut / $c Warner Bros.
246 3# $a William Peter Blatty's The exorcist
260 ## $a Burbank, CA : $b Warner Home Video, $c 2010.
381 ## $i Edition/version: $a Director’s cut $a 2000 version $4 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/P9767
The BIBFRAME data conversion programs do not yet include MARC field 381 from the bibliographic record. Conversion of fields 368, 376, and 381 in authority records would be part of a MADS data conversion. In BIBFRAME, treatment of $i and $4 is already included in the specifications for other MARC fields, and the conversion could be modified to include MARC field 381.
6.1. Do you agree that $i and $4 are needed in fields 368, 376, and 381 to express other relationships to other attributes or designations of persons, corporate bodies, families, works and expressions not accommodated elsewhere in the MARC Authority or Bibliographic Formats?
6.2. Are there any potential consequences that this paper does not address?
6.3. Are these changes appropriate for converting this discussion paper to a fast-track proposal?
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