Cataloguing Commission: SubCommission on UNIMARC

On 28 July 2011, the IAML Sub-commission on UNIMARC gathered twice at the Trinity College, in Dublin, for its ninth annual meeting which was held during the 60th IAML Conference. The two sessions were co-chaired by Isabelle Gauchet Doris (Centre de documentation de la musique contemporaine, Paris), current chair, and Massimo Gentili-Tedeschi (Ufficio Ricerca Fondi Musicali, Milan), past-chair and member of the Italian UNIMARC Committee. The secretary, Tiziana Morsanuto ( Venice), could not attend the conference. The attendees were: * Cristina Farnetti (Direzione generale per gli Archivi, Roma, Italy) * Robert Foster (Kings College, London, United Kingdom) * Anke Hofmann (Hochschule fur Musik und Theater, Leipzig, Germany) * Marguerite Iskenderian (Brooklyn College Library, Brooklyn, USA) * Mari Itoh (Aichi Shukutoku University, Aichi-gun, Japan) The topics which were discussed are the following: 1. Decisions of the PUC (22th meeting, Lisboa, 2011) The French UNIMARC Committee (CfU) presented in Lisboa several proposals of modification of UNIMARC bibliographic and authorities format in order to accommodate FRBR (and RDA) and levels. The entity and the entity, which does not exist in the UNIMARC format, would be described in U/A (the Manifestation in UNIMARC/B, the Item in UNIMARC/H). The U/B and U/A fields to be changed or added are listed in the UNIMARC Bibliographic/Authorities Change Proposal 2011/23 (4 fields to be added in U/B, 33 fields to be added in U/A, 11 fields to be changed in U/A). The PUC accepted the CfU's proposals in principle. The ones concerning the were accepted as provisional. Among the main points: * For titles identifying Works and Expressions: * New U/A and U/B fields to be defined for FRBR-ized data. Unimarc/A--Work records (no name associated with the title) 231 Authorized Access Point--Title (Work) Unimarc/A--Work records (creator's name associated with title) 241 Authorized Access Point--Name / Title (Work) Unimarc/B--Manifestation Record (no name associated with title of work) 506 Uniform Title--Identification of a 507 Uniform Title--Identification of an Unimarc/B--Manifestation Record (creator's name associated with title of work) 576 Name / Uniform Title--Identification of a 577 Name / Uniform Title--Identification of an * For names associated with Works and Expressions: * U/A Block 5XX will be developed similarly to U/B Block 7XX. * Subfield $5, Position 4 to be defined in 5X0 to create a relationship to field 200, which is not currently possible. Unimarc/A--Work records (creator's name associated with title) 5x0 Name of Creator associated with the $5, pos. 4 (new) : a Creator 5x1 Subsequent Name associated with the (new) The new proposals of the French UNIMARC Committee related to the work and to the expression are recorded in the PUC's report. The main are quoted above: 2011/7: U/A 231, 431, 531, 731 (Defining corresponding U/A Title Access Point fields for FRBR 2011/9: U/A 241, 441, 541, 741 (Defining corresponding U/A Name/Title Access Point fields for FRBR 2011/11: U/A 500, 510, 520 (Limiting repeatability of fields to cases when they are used for the name of a FRBR creator). 2011/12: U/A 501 (Defining field for Related Access Point--Personal Name with Responsibility for the Work). 2011/14: U/A 511 (Defining field for Related Access Point--Corporate Body with Responsibility for the Work). 2011/19: U/B 506 (Defining Preferred Title--Identification of a Work field for FRBR Manifestation level). 2011/20: U/B 507 (Defining Preferred Title--Identification of an Expression field for FRBR Manifestation level). …