2018-11-08 MARCcat Subgroup Meeting Notes

Tiziana Possemato, David García Sánchez

Continue the discussion and confirmation about:

• MARCcat prototype released by David Garcia last friday on 2nd of November)

Control fields - Hide or Display

• David presented us with two options, one which groups all control fields together, the other with the 006, 007, 008. The group like the second option better.

001 Display

• Proposal - This could be in the pane header. Here would also be the option to copy the 001
  
  
  

Pane Header

• Results pane
• Third panel - What information is needed?
  • For bibliographic records, group suggested eliminating the "Last updated" field.
  • For authority records
    • Name/title authority - heading length will be long. We will want to see the associated title in a name/title authority. Decision to wait until David meets with @Cult to discuss how these Name/Title should display. Tiziana will show some options that WeCat currently offers.
    • Proposal:
      
      

About the N/T presentation, Sarah Ross sent via e-mail some examples of OCLC and LC:

Here’s one index screen, from OCLC, giving name/title authority records that include the 4XX. 

LC’s Name/Title Authority Index, including Authorized Names, References, and associated bib record count: