Additions to Source Codes for Vocabularies, Rules, and Schemes

News from the Library of Congress.

The source codes listed below have been recently approved. The codes will be added to the applicable Source Codes for Vocabularies, Rules, and Schemes lists. See the specific source code lists for current usage in MARC fields and MODS/MADS elements.

The codes should not be used in exchange records until 60 days after the date of this notice to provide implementers time to include newly-defined codes in any validation tables.

Classification Scheme Source Codes
The following source codes have been added to the Classification Scheme Source Codes list for usage in appropriate fields and elements.

Additions:

no-ujur-cmr

Menneskerettighets-klassifikasjon

no-ujur-cnip

NifsP-klassifikasjon

Subject Heading and Term Source Codes
The following source code has been added to the Subject Heading and Term Source Codes list for usage in appropriate fields and elements.

Addition:

no-ubo-mr

Menneskerettighets-tesaurus

Name and Title Authority Source Codes

The following source code has been added to the Name and Title Authority Source Codes list for usage in appropriate fields and elements.

Addition:

gkd

Gemeinsame Korperschaftsdei

Related articles

• Bigwood, David: Additions to Source Codes for Vocabularies, Rules, and Schemes (catalogablog.blogspot.com)
• Bigwood, David: Additions to Source Codes for Vocabularies, Rules, and Schemes (catalogablog.blogspot.com)

Sport-Specific Moving Image Genre/Form Terms

News from LC.

The Policy and Standards Division of the Library of Congress plans to cancel sport-specific moving image genre/form terms from Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms for Library and Archival Materials (LCGFT) on June 18, 2012. In all, 24 terms of the type [sport] films and [sport] television programs (e.g., Curling films; Tennis television programs) will be cancelled.

Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) policy, which permits headings to be established based on the terminology used in works about the films, is unchanged. Therefore, if a work is written about curling films, for example, a proposal may be made to add curling films to LCSH.

The rationale for cancelling the sport-specific genre/form terms, along with the list of terms to be cancelled, is available on the Library of Congress' web site at http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/genre_form_sports_terms_cancellation.pdf.

Subject Headings for School and Public Libraries

New edition (4th) of the bilingual Subject Headings for School and Public Libraries.

Tool for TEI Display

New TEI tool.

We are pleased to announce the release of TEI Boilerplate 1.0, a lightweight solution for publishing styled TEI P5 content directly in modern web browsers.

The typical method for publishing TEI on the web involves an often complex XSLT transformation from TEI to HTML, which results in the loss of much of the semanticy richness of the original TEI document. TEI Boilerplate uses a relatively simple XSLT transformation to embed the entire TEI document inside an HTML5 shell, relying on CSS and JavaScript to format and process the TEI content. We hope that this lightweight approach will provide a simple solution for publishing TEI content on the web, and it may be particularly useful in teaching contexts and in systems like Omeka. We further hope that this approach will foster innovation in the delivery and analysis of TEI content by exposing that content directly to the capabilities of modern web technologies: HTML5, CSS 3, JavaScript and the many popular JavaScript frameworks, such as JQuery and EXT JS.

For more details, a demo file, download links, etc., please visit http://teiboilerplate.org.

TEI Boilerplate is open source and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

Virtual International Authority File

News from Fall of 2011 about OCLC's VIAF.

Uniform Titles have been added to the Virtual International Authority File!

Now VIAF covers:

• Personal names
  
• Corporate names
  
• Geographic names (only jurisdictional names so far)
  
• Uniform titles

Old news but still new to me.

OCLC Control Number Expansion in 2013

News from OCLC.

WorldCat continues to grow! The OCLC Control Number is anticipated to reach one billion after July 1, 2013. At that point, OCLC will increase the length of the OCLC number to accommodate a variable length number string. If you use and/or store OCLC MARC bibliographic records and the OCLC Control Number, you will notice a change after July 1, 2013. You will need to check the systems at your institution that use OCLC MARC bibliographic records and the OCLC number. You may need to implement changes to ensure those systems will be able to successfully handle the longer OCLC number effective July 1, 2013.

For example, libraries may be impacted in the following areas:

• Cataloging and IT librarians that download OCLC MARC bibliographic records to the library's local system
  
• Resource sharing librarians using third party ILL management programs that store or use the OCLC number for searching.
  
• Reference services librarians using WorldCat Local to help a patron locate an item

Publishers, vendors and others that partner with OCLC may be impacted as follows:

• Integrated Library Service (ILS) vendors that use OCLC MARC bibliographic records to test compatibility with OCLC
  
• Publishers, material suppliers and eContent providers that use OCLC MARC bibliographic records in their systems
  
• Developers maintaining services that use OCLC Control Numbers

Format of the OCLC Number...

The OCLC Number resides in the MARC 001 field and may also be stored in other fields. The OCLC Number in the 001 field is formatted as follows, and may appear in one or more of these forms in the record:

OCLC numbers 1 through 99999999:

* "ocm" prefix
* oclc control number, 8 digits, right justified with leading zeros
* a blank space as the last character
Example: ocm00012345

OCLC numbers 100000000 to 999999999:

* "ocn" prefix
* oclc control number, 9 digits
Example: ocn123456789

OCLC numbers 1000000000 and higher:

* "on" prefix
* oclc control number, 10 or more digits
Example: on1234567890 or on1234567890123

When stored in the 035 field, the OCLC number is usually stored with the prefix (OCoLC) and without the "ocm", "ocn" or "on" prefixes; for example: (OCoLC)1234567890

When this change takes place... the "on" prefix will be used to identify OCLC Numbers that contain ten or more digits. Nine or eight digit OCLC Numbers will continue to use the "ocn" or "ocm" prefix as described above. The update to the OCLC Number is backwards compatible so that previously defined OCLC Numbers will not be impacted. Previously assigned OCLC Numbers will continue to work as before.

What action should you take? If you use and/or store OCLC MARC bibliographic records and the OCLC Control Number, you will notice a change after July 1, 2013. You will need to check the systems at your institution that use OCLC MARC bibliographic records and the OCLC number. You may need to implement changes to ensure those systems will be able to successfully handle the longer OCLC number effective July 1, 2013.

Additions to Source Codes for Vocabularies, Rules, and Schemes

The source codes listed below have been recently approved. The codes will be added to the applicable Source Codes for Vocabularies, Rules, and Schemes lists. See the specific source code lists for current usage in MARC fields and MODS/MADS elements.

The codes should not be used in exchange records until 60 days after the date of this notice to provide implementers time to include newly-defined codes in any validation tables.

Standard Identifier Scheme Source Codes The following source codes have been added to the Classification Scheme Source Codes list for usage in appropriate fields and elements.

Additions:

orcid

Open Researcher and Contributor IDentifier

viaf

Virtual International Authority File number

Related articles

• Bigwood, David: Additions to Source Codes for Vocabularies, Rules, and Schemes (catalogablog.blogspot.com)
• Bigwood, David: Additions to Source Codes for Vocabularies, Rules, and Schemes (catalogablog.blogspot.com)