[Heb-NACO] Fwd: how to code source of date in 374 field in authority records
Heidi G Lerner
lerner at stanford.edu
Wed Aug 15 15:12:00 EDT 2012
Hi all,
In case you have been having some problems coding dates
in the 370, 373 and 374 fields, see below:
----- Original Message -----
From: "LChelp4rda" <LChelp4rda at loc.gov>
To: "Heidi G Lerner" <lerner at stanford.edu>
Cc: "Joan Biella" <jbie at loc.gov>
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 11:51:14 AM
Subject: RE: how to code source of date in 374 field in authority records
Hi Heidi,
The PCC document "MARC 21 Fields and Codes Chart for Authority Records At-A-Glance” is out of date. I don't see it on the PCC website anymore, and I'm not sure if that is a result of me not being able to find it b/c PCC redid their website, or if it's really no longer there. The most current document for these issues is R-5, available here:
http://www.loc.gov/catworkshop/RDA%20training%20materials/LC%20RDA%20Training/LC%20RDA%20course%20table.html
The PCC has a document on their website called "MARC 21 encoding to accommodate new RDA elements 046 and 3XX in NARs and SARs," but that has not been updated since May 2012, and I know some of those recommended practices are not current.
The short answers to your questions are:
1) Yes, $2 in the 370, 373 and 374 field is for "Source of term" not "Source of date scheme" so it cannot be used to specify edtf in those fields
2) There is no way to used edtf dates in those fields so you can only include them in a 670, not in $s and $t of those fields.
Kate James
Policy and Standards Division
Library of Congress
From: Heidi G Lerner [mailto:lerner at stanford.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 12:56 PM
To: LChelp4rda
Cc: Biella, Joan
Subject: how to code source of date in 374 field in authority records
To: lchelp4rda
There appears to be a discrepancy between the PCC document “MARC 21 Fields and Codes Chart for Authority Records At-A-Glance” and the “MARC Format for Authority Data” as to what $2 stands for in the 370, 373 and 374 fields. According to the PCC document $2 is to be used for “Source of date scheme”; according the to the MARC format $2 is to be used for Source of term that specifies a code that identifies the source of a controlled vocabulary for occupation terms in $a. $2 is not repeatable in these fields.
The question arose when a cataloger asked how he would code the date Start period/End period for Occupation (MARC Field 374).
The source citation for his question was “"President du Tribunal Rabbinique, 5700-5710."
Unfortunately, the specific side of the Gregorian divide is not given for either of these years, thus 5700-5710 in RDA/A2 terms is rendered to 1939 or
1940-1949 or 1950.
My answer to him based on my reading of the above PCC document was $s[1939,1940] $t[1949,1950] $2ETDF
If this is not correct, please let me know what information would go into the Start period/End period fields and how would it be formatted.
Thank you, Heidi Lerner
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Heidi G. Lerner
Hebraica/Judaica Cataloger
Metadata Development Unit
Stanford University Libraries
Stanford, CA 94305-6004
e-mail: lerner at stanford.edu
ph: 650-725-9953
fax: 650-725-1120
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