[Yulcat-l] FW: Phase 2 Changes to the Authority File Beginning

[Swanekamp, Joan]

Some big RDA changes that will be making their way into the authority file, LCDB, OCLC and ORBIS in the next weeks and months.

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From: Program for Cooperative Cataloging [mailto:PCCLIST at LISTSERV.LOC.GOV] On Behalf Of Philip Schreur
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 4:18 PM
To: PCCLIST at LISTSERV.LOC.GOV
Subject: Phase 2 Changes to the Authority File Beginning

Everyone,

Beginning March 6th, 2013, Phase 2 of the automated changes to the LC 
NAF is due to commence. In Phase 2, authority records whose access 
fields (1XX, 4XX and 5XX fields) are subject to mechanical manipulation 
to make them conformant to RDA will be modified. Examples of these 
changes are the expansion of the abbreviations for department or 
arranged, the replacement of "Koran" in subfield $a with "Qur'an," etc. 
Approximately 400K headings will be affected. Processing will be 
complete before the PCC Day 1 for RDA Authority Records on March 31, 2013.

Sometime after this point, PCC will finalize the planning for Phase 3 of 
the authority file manipulation. During this phase, those headings that 
are RDA acceptable but still coded as pre-RDA will be explicitly coded 
as RDA. We strongly feel that the indication of RDA compliance for RDA 
acceptable headings being the lack of the 667 note added which states 
THIS 1XX CANNOT BE USED UNDER RDA UNTIL THIS RECORD HAS BEEN REVIEWED 
AND/OR UPDATED is unacceptable as a permanent condition. However, we 
also acknowledge the impact that this explicit recoding will have on 
various data processing pipelines. It is most likely that this change 
will occur over the span of multiple years in order to make the 
processing of these records acceptable to the NACO nodes and local 
authority files.

Philip

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Philip E. Schreur
Chair, Program for Cooperative Cataloging
Head, Metadata Department
Stanford University
650-723-2454
650-725-1120 (fax)