2019-02-07 MARCcat Subgroup Meeting Notes

Tiziana Possemato, Paul Mouland

Tiziana introduced Paul, who has worked for at Cult as a consultant for 20 years.

Discussion about MARC validation/tag tables by Paul Mouland. Paul demonstrated the main tag table for Amicus. Amicus is the library product first developed at the National Library of Canada and owned by at Cult.

• There are separate tables for authorities and bibs.
• The Amicus table demonstrated is maintained by programmers. The group expressed the need for catalogers that are not programmers to be able to update this table.
• Can something be marked obsolete but still be accepted in records? - Yes.
• Fixed fields are not included in Amicus in a tabular form. This is compatible with MARC, but information is not stored as MARC.
• Tiziana noted that what Paul demonstrated is what is currently the state, but is welcoming input for future develop. What does the group think is needed?