RDA in MARC
July 2014
MARC 21 Updates 9-18 include all changes to MARC for use with RDA approved through June 2014.
Content, Media and Carrier Types and Characteristics
RDA Content Types
- MARC already indicates content type in LDR/06.
- RDA contains a list of English language content types for which a new
field 336 was provided in MARC
Bibliographic and in MARC Authority.
- Field 336 may contain the RDA term ($a) or a code ($b); codes were established
in MARC Update 10.
- For a table that relates the MARC LDR/06 to the corresponding RDA content
terms and MARC codes for RDA content terms see: Term and
Code List for RDA Content Types.
RDA Media Types
- MARC already indicates media type in field 007/00.
- RDA contains a list of English language media types for which a new
field 337 is provided in MARC
Bibliographic and in MARC Holdings.
- Field 337 may contain the RDA term ($a) or a code ($b); codes were established
in MARC Update 10.
- For a table that relates the MARC 007/00 to the corresponding RDA media
terms and MARC codes for RDA media terms see: Term and
Code List for RDA Media Types.
RDA Carrier Types
- MARC already indicates carrier type in field 007/01.
- RDA contains a list of English language carrier types for which a new
field 338 is provided in MARC
Bibliographic and in MARC Holdings.
- Field 338 may contain the RDA term ($a) or a code ($b); codes were established
in MARC Update 10.
- For a table that relates the MARC 007/01 to the corresponding RDA carrier
terms and MARC codes for RDA carrier terms see: Term and
Code List for RDA Carrier Types
RDA Carrier Characterisitcs
Attributes of Names and Resources
Attributes of names and titles are typically information that has been recorded
in name headings (e.g., date of birth) or in uniform title headings (e.g.,
key for music) -- or they may have been included in a note in an Authority
record for the name or title. With RDA they may be recorded separately from
the heading or as part of the heading (or both). New
fields for these attributes have been established for names and for
resources (works and expressions).
New MARC Authority fields for name attributes:
046 - Special Coded Dates (R)
368 - Other Attributes of Person or Corporate Body (R)
371 - Address (R)
372 - Field of Activity (R)
373 - Associated Group (R)
374 - Occupation (R)
375 - Gender (R)
376 - Family Information (R)
378 - Fuller Form of Personal Name (NR)
New MARC Authority and Bibliographic fields for work and expression attributes:
046 - Special Coded Dates (new
subfields only)
370 - Associated Place (R)
377 - Associated Language (R)
380 - Form of Work (R)
381 - Other Distinguishing Characteristics of Work or Expression (R)
382 - Medium of Performance (R)
383 - Numeric Designation of Musical Work (R)
384 - Key (NR)
Relationships
Name to resource
- RDA Appendix I lists possible relationships between a resource and persons,
families and corporate bodies, e.g., author, artist, cartographer.
- MARC already records these types of relationships using relator terms
($e) or codes ($4) in 1XX, 6XX, 7XX, and 8XX in MARC Bibliographic and 1XX,
4XX, and 5XX in MARC Authority.
- MARC Relator Code list is being augmented
with RDA relationships that are not already in the list.
- MARC and RDA Relators Reconciled.
Resource to resource
- RDA Appendix J lists over 400 relationships that may exist between works,
expressions, manifestations and items, e.g., dramatized as (work), indexed
in (work), sequel, digest of (expression), filmed with (manifestation), reproduction
of (item).
- RDA identifies several methods for specifying these relationships:
- identifiers - e.g., many $o, $u, $x, $w, and $0 subfields, and
field 856
- notes - 5XX Bibliographic and 6XX Authority
- structured descriptions - 76X-78X Bibliographic
- structured access points - 700-75X Bibliographic and 4XX and 5XX
Authority
- MARC addition: $i defined
for the relationship term in Bibliographic 700-75X and 76X-78X and in Authority
4XX and 5XX.
Name to name
- RDA Appendix K lists possible relationships between persons, families
and corporate bodies, e.g., employee, sponsor, descendent family, employer,
predecessor.
- MARC subfield $i added to 4XX and 5XX Authority is also used to specify
these types of relationships.
Miscellaneous other changes to MARC for RDA
- Additional subfield specificity in field 502 (Dissertation Note)
- Additional subfield for qualifying informaton in 028 (Publisher Number), 015 (National Bibliography Number), 020 (International Standard Book Number), 024 (Other Standard Identifier), 027 (Standard Technical Report Number)
- ISSN subfield made repeatable in field 490 (Series Statement)
- Additional codes in various 007 and 008 character positions
- Additional subfields in 033 (Date/Time and Place of an Event) and 518
(Date/Time and Place of an Event Note)
- Field 040 $e made repeatable and code "rda" added to the MARC
code list for Descriptive Conventions to
indicate the use of the RDA rules for description. Leader/18 will be coded
i with RDA.
- Field 250 made repeatable in order to better accommodate edition statements for music and other resources cataloged according to RDA.
- New Bibliographic format field: 264 - Production, Publicaton, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice (R)
- Subfield $c (Location of meeting) made repeatable in X10 (Corporate Names) and X11 (Meeting Names) fields for recording multiple location names in relation to conferences.
- Experimentation with a technique for including URIs for values (no MARC
content designation change) (See Discussion
Paper 2010-DP02 for general description.)
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