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The 14th Meeting of the PUC was a kind of milestone
meeting. It was the last meeting organized by
the IFLA UBCIM Programme Director Ms. Marie-France
Plassard as she was to retire at the end of February
2003. The Committee members thanked Ms. Plassard
for her twelve year commitment to the work on
the development of UNIMARC and Bibliographic Control.
On 2003 March 1, the transfer of the UNIMARC
Programme to the National Library of Portugal
became official, with the agreement slated to
last for three years. The current structure and
membership of the PUC is to remain in place until
2004. Production of the journal International
Cataloguing and Bibliographic Control also
transfers to the National Library of Portugal,
and Ms. Plassard remains as the editor of the
journal.
Ms. Fernanda Campos, the new director of the
UNIMARC Programme distributed the documents "Details
of New Arrangements for the Setting of the UNIMARC
Programme (UP)" and "UNIMARC Core Activity:
Strategic Plan 2002-2003." She will present
the UNIMARC Programme at the Division on Bibliographic
Control Open Forum at the Berlin IFLA meeting
in 2003.
As mentioned, the new elections of PUC members
did not take place but Mr. Alan Danskin of the
British Library, although remaining as a Corresponding
Member of the PUC, had been replaced (at his own
request) as a Standing Member by Mr. Alan Hopkinson
of Middlesex University. Mr. Hopkinson will replace
Mr. Danskin also as the editor of the UNIMARC
formats.
The meeting hosted guest attendees Corresponding
Members Mr. Anthony Curwen of the Consortium of
European Research Libraries (CERL) and Mr. Alain
Roucolle of the ISSN International Centre because
of their involvment in the matters to be discussed.
UNIMARC/Bibliographic
Due to the fact that the UNIMARC Manual: Bibliographic
Format Update 5 is scheduled for publication in
2004 the meeting took care to finilize the proposals
planned to be included for publication.
The proposals considered can be grouped under
three main topics:
- Serials: the second set of proposals (the
first set being discussed and accepted at the
previous meeting) are based on the new edition
of ISBD(S) - ISBD(CR): Serials and Other Continuing
Resources: repeatability of 210 Publication,
Distribution, etc. and the definition of the
indicator to record earliest available, current
and intervening publishers; new indicator value
in 011 ISSN to register the CR of international
or national interest and CR of local interest
in order to enable the registration different
types of records in the ISSN database; recommendation
of the use of 448 Change Back to field.
- Music: further integration of music and music
manuscript description into the format: new
codes for religious text and libretto in 105
Textual Language Material, Monographic field;
new codes to accommodate formats used mainly
in manuscript music in 125 Sound Recordings
and Music field; proposed list and definition
of codes to describe the form of a musical work,
essential to identify the composition proposed
for the 128 field was transferred to a new appendix
and the decision was made to write a proposal
to the IAML to maintain the list; new field
036 for Music Incipit was accepted; additions
to the description of 210 Publication, Distribution,
etc. subfields to accommodate data for manuscripts.
- New proposals (besides minor additions):
addition of the new paragraph listing numerical
subfields, and update of the text on the use
of $7 Alphabet/Script and addition of $8 Language
according to the UNIMARC/Authorities in Section
3, Format Structure; new fields to express relationships:
424 Is Updated by and 425 Updates, and 412 Source
of Excerpt or Offprint and 413 Excerpt or Offprint;
new subfields for the standard subfield technique
to be used in the 4-- fields like general material
designation, first and subsequent statement
of responsibility, etc.; renaming of 7-- Intellectual
Responsibility Block to Responsibility Block
to widen its scope to include commercial responsibilities
and trademark (i.e., 716); addition of subfield
$u URI to 3-- note block fields (320, 321, 327,
330, 334, 345 with pending proposal for 316,
317, 318 and 337).
UNIMARC/Authorities
Comité français UNIMARC made "List
of Errata" and all PUC members were requested
to check and comment in order to make a decision
about its publication.
ISBD(M)
Comité français UNIMARC proposed a
study to see which parts of the new edition of ISBD(M)
do not have corresponding parts in UNIMARC, so as
to suggest what UNIMARC developments may be necessary,
and to have this work endorsed by the PUC.
ISBD (Manuscripts)
Ms. Bourdon indicated that a French translation
of the mapping from DTD EAD to UNIMARC was already
available. Ms. Magliano reported on Italian work
on manuscripts, not using UNIMARC since it does
not accommodate many areas. Mr. Hopkinson suggested
that the PUC needs to develop fields for manuscripts,
using the MARC AMC model, but at present the PUC
cannot recommend that UNIMARC be used for manuscripts.
French, Italian, and Portuguese examples need to
be compared to see if the ideas can be coordinated,
in time for IFLA Berlin 2003. The eventual product
may be a PUC document of a UNIMARC model for the
treatment of manuscript materials.
UNIMARC for Holdings Format
Comments on the UNIMARC/Holdings final draft,
dated 2002 December 5, should be sent to Ms. Galvão,
the Chair of the Working Group on UNIMARC/Holdings.
The format was eventually posted on IFLANET in May
2003 for world wide review. All comments to be sent
by October 1, 2003 to unimarc@bn.pt.
Date and place of next meeting
There will be a meeting of the PUC during the 2003
IFLA Conference in Berlin if a quorum is present.
The 15th meeting of the PUC is scheduled for Lisbon,
2004 March 15-16.
Jay Weitz, OCLC Online Computer Library
Center, Vice Chair
Mirna Willer, National and University Library,
Zagreb, Chair
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