[Enhance] OCLC QC Tip of the Month / June 2011: BFAS

[Goodson,Luanne]

[Cross-posted to multiple lists-- please excuse/ignore duplication]
************************************************************************
*************************************


OCLC's "Bibliographic Formats and Standards" (BFAS)
http://www.oclc.org/bibformats/en/ is a guide to machine-readable
cataloging records in WorldCat.  It provides tagging conventions, input
standards, cataloging practices, and guidelines for entering information
into WorldCat.  In Chapter 2, there is detailed information on original
and copy cataloging, as well as a comparisons between the different
levels of cataloging found in WorldCat.  Chapter 3 provides guidelines
on special cataloging topics such as "In" analytics, Theses, Parallel
records, Electronic resources, etc.  

To promote a common basis for decision-making and creation of a useful
database, OCLC and its advisory groups established guidelines for
inputting new records into WorldCat which are covered in Chapter 4 'When
to Input a New Record'.  Chapter 5 is 'Quality Assurance'.  This chapter
provides guidelines on how to participate in OCLC's quality programs
such as database enrichment, how to edit records in WorldCat, or, report
errors to OCLC's Quality Control.  Other chapters provide MARC field and
subfield coding.  Each section includes the input standards noted at the
top of the screen for full and less-than-full level cataloging and many
examples.  The examples provided are illustrative, not prescriptive.

For the very latest information see the Technical Bulletins list
http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/technicalbulletins/.  TB 258
explains in detail the new fields, subfields, search indexes, etc. added
for MARC Format Update 2010.  Many of the changes are related to the
scheduled testing and possible future implementation of Resource
Description and Access (RDA) http://www.rdatoolkit.org/, the proposed
successor to AACR2.


If you have questions, please send email to: askqc at oclc.org 




Luanne Goodson
Consulting Database Specialist
OCLC Quality Control Section
6565 Kilgour Place    MC 139
Dublin, Ohio, USA 43017-3395





-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/enhance/attachments/20110606/0d132907/attachment.html