Expressing UNIMARC relator codes in RDA

Facilitating access to scientific bibliographic collections on the web of data is a major challenge for the sovereignty and scientific collaboration of European countries. The LRM-Factory project aims to create the first metadata factory to facilitate the transition to the semantic web for bibliographic agencies through the mass migration of collections to vocabularies such as RDA. The LRM-Factory project was presented by members of the Medical library Documentation Centrale des Hospices Civils de Lyon at the 6th UNIMARC Users Meeting. Following the presentation From UNIMARC to RDA: LRM-Factory, An Online Mass-migration Tool, we were asked about the difficulties encountered. In this contribution, we would like to answer this question by describing the mapping work carried out as part of the project: the alignment work between UNIMARC relator codes and RDA. After a brief overview of the project and the partners involved, the method used to construct this specific mapping and the tools used are described, and then the three possible levels of alignment that can be observed are dealt with in detail. A special case is briefly mentioned before the conclusion.

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6. srečanje uporabnikov UNIMARC

A close-up of a computer screen Description automatically generated Stalni odbor za UNIMARC pri IFLA (Permanent UNIMARC Committe (PUC) oz. Review Group UNIMARC) izvaja projekt Future of UNIMARC, ki se je v letu 2024 razvil v dve aktivnosti. To sta annketa o uporabi formata UNIMARC in mednarodno srečanje uporabnikov formata UNIMARC. Slednje, 6. srečanje uporabnikov UNIMARC (6th UNIMARC Users Meeting), je 12. novembra 2024 potekalo v IZUM-ovih prostorih (Maribor) in prek spleta.

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Format UNIMARC in Stalni odbor UNIMARC (PUC)

Z razvojem računalniških knjižničnih katalogov se je razvijal tudi podatkovni in komunikacijski format MARC, tj. računalniško čitljivi zapis s strukturo, ki ustreza elementom bibliografskega vpisa. V zgodnjih 70. letih 20. st. je obstajalo že več kot 20 različic MARC formatov, ki pa žal med sabo niso bili združljivi. V skladu z načeli Univerzalne bibliografske kontrole (Universal Bibliographic Control, UBC), ki poudarja pomen mednarodne izmenjave podatkov z namenom zmanjševanja stroškov katalogizacije, je zveza International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) podprla razvoj mednarodnega formata UNIMARC s prvo izdajo formata že leta 1977. Pod okriljem IFLA je razvoj UNIMARC-a temeljil na razumevanju kulturne raznolikosti uporabnikov formata.

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Priročnik UNIMARC/A

Danes UNIMARC predstavlja nabor štirih formatov: bibliografski (UNIMARC/B), normativni (UNIMARC/A), klasifikacijski (UNIMARC Classification) in format za podatke o zalogi (UNIMARC/H), ki jih ustanove lahko uporabljajo neposredno ali pa so temelj posameznim različicam formata, npr. slovenski COMARC (Brešar, 2004). Preberi več “Format UNIMARC in Stalni odbor UNIMARC (PUC)”