New MARC Fields with RDA

Bibliographic and Authority Formats

Name Attributes

• Recorded in the authority record for the name

Name Attributes (Authorithy Records)

Field 368: Other Attributes of a Person/Corporate Body

• Any attribute that serves to characterize a person/corporate body OR

• May be needed for differentiation from other persons or corporate bodies

Field 370: Associated Place

• Information about places associated with a name at the level of town, city, province, state and/or country

– Person: birth, death, resident, identity– Corporate body: significant location– Family: where family resides or has some

connection

Name Attributes (Authority Records)

Field 371: Address

• An address associated with the name (where the entity can be reached)– Person: residence, business, employer, email or

Internet address– Corporate body: headquarters or office, email, or

Internet address

Name Attributes (Authority Records)

Field 372: Field of Activity

• Person: a field of endeavor, area of expertise, etc. in which the person is/was engaged

• Corporate body: a field of business in which the corporate body is engaged, its area of competence, responsibility, jurisdiction, etc.

Examples: Field of Activity

100 1- Mahbey, Judy372 -- Acting |a Voice-Overs |a Drama coaching |a Drama teaching

110 2- North American Treaty Organization372 – The North American Treaty Organization (NATO) is a political and military alliance of 26 countries from North American and Europe committed to fulfilling the goals of the North Atlantic Treaty signed on 4 April 1949.

Name Attributes (Authority Records)

Field 373: Associated Group

• Information about a group, institution, association, etc. that is associated with the name. This can also be a group with which a person is or has been affiliated, including dates of affiliation.

Name Attributes (Authorithy Records)

Field 374: Occupation

• Information about profession or occupation in which a person works or has worked, including dates applicable

Name Attributes (Authority Records)

Field 375: Gender

• Information about gender of a person, including dates applicable

Name Attributes (Authority Records)

Field 376: Family Information

• Additional information about families, including type of family, prominent member of the family, and hereditary title

Name Attributes (Authority Records)

Field 378: Fuller Form of Personal Name

• A name element used to distinguish a person from another person with the same name. It may be needed when a part of a name is represented only by an initial or abbreviation in the form chosen as the preferred name, or when a part of the name is not included in the form chosen as the preferred name.

Name Attributes (Authority Records)

Special Coded Dates: Field 046

• For a person– Date of birth, death, or date/date range of activity

• Corporate body– Date/range on which a conference is held– Date with which corporate body is associated

• Family– Significant date associated with the famly

Work and Expression Attributes

• Recorded in authority and bibliographic records

Work and Expression Attributes

Special Coded Dates: Field 046

• Work or Expression– Beginning date created– Single date created

Work and Expression Attributes

Field 377 Associated Language

• Codes for languages associated with the entity described in the record. Includes the language a person uses when writing for publication, a language a corporate body uses in its communications, a language of a family, or a language in which a work is expressed

Field 380: Form of Work

• A class or genre to which a work belongs. May be used to differentiate a work from another work with the same title.

Field 381: Other Distinguishing Characteristics of Work or Expression

• Any characteristic that is not accommodated in a special field that serves to characterize a work or expression.

• Examples are an issuing body, arranged statement of music, version, or a geographic term. May be used to differentiate a work from another work with the same title.

Field 382:Medium of Performance

• The instrumental, vocal, and/or other medium of performance for which a musical work was originally conceived or for which a musical expression is written or performed. May be used to differentiate a musical work or expression from another with the same title.

Field 383: Numeric Designation of Musical Work

• A serial number, opus number, or thematic index number assigned to a musical work by the composer, publisher, or a musicologist.

• May be used to differentiate a musical work from another with the same title.

Field 384: Key

• The set of pitch relationships that establishes a single pitch class as a tonal centre for a musical work or expression.

• May be used to differentiate a musical work or expression from another with the same title.

Old Friends

New MARC Fields in the Bibliographic Record

• Content (field 336)• Media (field 337)• Carrier (field 338)

Work and Expression Attributes

MARC Bibliographic and Authority

Content Types• The form of communication

through which a work is expressed

• Field 336

Examples• Performed music• Notated music• Two-dimensional moving

image• Cartographic image• Text

Why does content type apply to both the bibliographic and authority formats?

MARC Bibliographic

Media Type• Reflects the general type of

intermediation device required to view, play, run, etc. the content of a resource

• Field 337

Examples• Audio• Video• Microform• Unmediated• computer

Why does media type apply only to the bibliographic format and not the authority format?

MARC Bibliographic

Carrier Type• Reflects the format of the

storage medium and housing of a carrier in combination with the media type (which indicates the intermediation device required to view, play, run, etc. the content of the resource)

• Field 338

Examples• Audio disc• Video disc• Volume• Online resource• Microfiche• Sheet