WorldCat Validation release notes, February 2024
Release Date: 8 February 2024
Introduction
This release of changes to WorldCat Validation involves the following new features, enhancements, and bug fixes.
- New Features and Enhancements:
- OCLC-MARC Validations of New MARC Codes Announced September 12-December 05, 2023
- Classification Scheme Source Codes
- Genre/Form Code and Term Source Codes
- Standard Identifier Source Codes
- Subject Heading and Term Source Codes
- MARC 21 Bibliographic Update No. 37 (Announced December 2023)
- MARC 21 Authority Update No. 37 (Announced December 2023) to the Validation Rule Set that Includes All Valid Elements of MARC 21 Authority Format
- MARC 21 Holdings Update No. 37 (Announced December 2023)
- Edit Change to Encoding Level (Elvl) 8 Bibliographic Records
- OCLC-MARC Validations of New MARC Codes Announced September 12-December 05, 2023
- Bug fixes
- Correction to drop-down for Subfield $2 in Holdings Field 506
- Correction of MARC relator code dcg to dgc
These enhancements and fixes are the result of announcements of new MARC elements and codes by the Library of Congress as well as feedback and requests from members of the OCLC community.
New features and enhancements
OCLC-MARC Validations of New MARC Codes Announced September 12-December 05, 2023
You may now use all new MARC Codes announced by the Library of Congress in the following LC Technical Notices:
- Technical Notice (September 12, 2023) -- Revised
- Technical Notice (October 20, 2023)
- Technical Notice (October 31, 2023)
- Technical Notice (December 05, 2023)
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.
- isced - International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) (Paris: UNESCO) (https://uis.unesco.org/en/topic/inte...ducation-isced)
- mtlc - Classification of Medialab Tabakalera Library
Genre/Form Code and Term Source Codes
The following source codes have been added to the Genre/Form Code and Term Source Codes list for usage in appropriate fields and elements.
- cbktrf - Centraal Bestand Kinderboeken - thematrefwoord (Leiden: OCLC) (https://picarta.oclc.org/psi/xslt/DB=3.34/)
- gemppg - Jeroen Salman and Andrea van Leerdam (eds.), Glossary of Early Modern Popular Print Genres (Utrecht: Utrecht University) (https://popular-print-glossary.sites.uu.nl/)
Standard Identifier Source Codes
The following source codes have been added to the Standard Identifier Source Codes list for usage in appropriate fields and elements.
- bbrainza - BookBrainz author
- bbrainzp - BookBrainz publisher
- bbrainzw - BookBrainz work
- ktgw - Work ID of the Union Catalogue Database of Japanese Texts (https://kokusho.nijl.ac.jp/)
- rijkspid - Rijksmuseum persistent identifiers (Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rijksmuseum)
Subject Heading and Term Source Codes
The following source codes have been added to the Subject Heading and Term Source Codes list for usage in appropriate fields and elements.
- conorsr - CONOR.SR authority files of personal and corporate names (Beograd: National Library of Serbia) (https://plus.cobiss.net/cobiss/sr/en/conor)
- elsst - ELSST Thesaurus - European Language Social Science Thesaurus (Bergen, Norway: Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives) (https://elsst.cessda.eu/)
- zst - Zine Subject Thesaurus (Halifax, Nova Scotia: Anchor Archive Zine Library) (https://anchorarchive.org/subject-thesaurus)
MARC 21 Bibliographic Update No. 37 (Announced December 2023)
You may now begin to use the following changes to Bibliographic elements implemented as part of OCLC-MARC Bibliographic Update for December 2023, based on the MARC 21 Bibliographic format changes announced in MARC 21 Bibliographic Update No. 37 (December 2023):
- New Bibliographic field 023 (Cluster ISSN) has been defined - See Note
- In existing Bibliographic field 022 (International Standard Serial Number):
- Removal of subfields $l (ISSN-L) and $m (Canceled ISSN-L) - See Note
- In existing Bibliographic field 532 (Accessibility Note):
- New subfield $3 (Materials specified) has been defined
Note: New field 023 and removal of subfields $l and $m in field 022 will be implemented in a future validation release.
MARC 21 Authority Update No. 37 (Announced December 2023) to the Validation Rule Set that Includes All Valid Elements of MARC 21 Authority Format
You may now begin to use the following changes to Authority elements implemented as part of OCLC-MARC Authority Update for December 2023, based on the MARC 21 Authority format changes announced in MARC 21 Authority Update No. 37 (December 2023).
Note: These changes apply only to the OCLC-MARC Authority validation rule set that includes all valid elements of MARC 21 Authority Format and cannot be used in the LC/NACO Authority File.
- New Authority field 023 (Cluster ISSN) has been defined
- In existing Authority field 022 (International Standard Serial Number):
- Removal of subfields $l (ISSN-L) and $m (Canceled ISSN-L)
- In existing Authority field 371 (Address) field definition and scope have been redescribed
- In existing Authority field 372 (Field of Activity) field definition and scope have been redescribed
- In existing Authority field 374 (Occupation) field definition and scope have been redescribed
- In existing Authority field 376 (Family Information) subfield $2 has been redescribed
Name Authority Cooperative (NACO) participants cannot use these authority format changes in the LC/NACO Authority File at this time. The Library of Congress and OCLC will announce the implementation of these elements for use in name and subject authority records in the LC/NACO Authority File at a future date.
MARC 21 Holdings Update No. 37 (Announced December 2023)
You may now begin to use the following changes to Holdings elements implemented as part of OCLC-MARC Holdings Update for January 2023, based on the MARC 21 Holdings format changes announced in MARC 21 Holdings Update No. 37 (December 2023):
Edit Change to Encoding Level (ELvl) 8 Bibliographic Records
Full-level cataloging authorizations and roles can now update non-BIBCO and non-CONSER records with encoding level (ELvl) 8 to another valid encoding level. Non-BIBCO and non-CONSER records can be identified by the absence of MARC field 042 with any of the following codes: “isds/c", "nlc", "nsdp", "lcac", "lccopycat", "msc", "premarc", "pcc", or "nst".
Bug fixes
Correction to drop-down for Subfield $2 in Holdings Field 506
In Record Manager, the subfield $2 dropdown menu for the holdings field 506 was without contents. This issue has been resolved, and the dropdown menu now shows a list of the Access Restriction Term Source Codes.
Correction of MARC relator code dcg to dgc
The MARC relator code for Degree Committee member has been corrected from "dcg" to "dgc" to align with the MARC Code List for Relators.
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