Dear Lismappers and LIBER-GDC people,
This message may well be of interest to you.
With best wishes,
Nick Millea
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From: "John D Byrum" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:23 PM
Subject: [IFLA-L] Reminder to comment by March 31
> Dear colleagues,
> Just sending a reminder about the March 31 deadline for comments on
> ISBD(CM) draft.
> Regards, John Byrum
>
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> Invitation to:
> World-Wide Review of International Standard Bibliographic Description
> for Cartographic Materials (ISBD(CM))
> 2004 revision
> Comments due by March 31, 2005
>
> In the early 1990s, IFLA's Division of Bibliographic Control set up a
> Study Group on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
> (FRBR). Following adoption of the Study Group's recommendations, the
> ISBD Review Group was charged to initiate a full-scale review of the
> ISBDs. The objective of this project was to ensure conformity between
> the provisions of the ISBDs and FRBR's data requirements for the "basic
> level national bibliographic record" (BLNBR).
>
> In the ISBDs, national bibliographic agencies are called upon to
> prepare the definitive description containing all the mandatory elements
> set out in the relevant ISBD insofar as the information is applicable to
> the publication being described. To facilitate implementation of this
> principle, the ISBDs designate as "mandatory" those data elements that
> are always to be included in records prepared by national bibliographic
> agencies, as "conditional" those that must be included under certain
> circumstances but that need not be included otherwise, and as "optional"
> those that may be included if desired but that are not required.
> Therefore, the main task in pursuing this revision project has entailed
> a close examination of the ISBD data elements that are mandatory to make
> optional or conditional those that are also optional in FRBR. (In no
> case is a data element mandatory in FRBR but optional in the ISBDs.)
>
> The updated version of the ISBD(CM), ready for your review and
> comments, is now available by clicking on the link that appears at:
> http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/pubs/Invitation4WWreview12-04.htm .
>
> In addition to the changes resulting from the work outlined above, this
> version of ISBD(CM), introduces some changes in terminology. Among them
> is the use of the term "resource" rather than "item" or "publication".
> ("Resource" is given a specific definition in 0.2). Other changes in
> wording were made to simplify the text and make it more consistent with
> other ISBDs. Similarly, in some cases, the order of choice of title
> proper is changed to be based on typography, then on sequence, to match
> treatment in other ISBDs.
>
> The use of multiple GMDs is under investigation by a Study Group
> constituted by the ISBD Review Group; as the Study Group reaches
> decisions on issues to be resolved, changes may later need to be made to
> ISBD(CM).
>
> "Scale" (or its equivalent in another language) is used as a constant
> in all cases, and "digital graphic representation" has been added for
> electronic cartographic materials.
>
> The Review Group would also very much appreciate contributions of
> examples to illustrate the particular provisions in ISBD(CM). Composite
> examples for consideration for inclusion in Appendix C would also be
> most welcome as would be comments on the examples that are provided in
> this version for review. We prefer examples in which fewer abbreviations
> are present.
>
> The text itself is presented as a draft for world-wide review. Comments
> on this draft revision of ISBD(CM) are now being sought. Please submit
> your comments to Dorothy McGarry at the address below by March 31,
> 2005.
>
>
> John D. Byrum, Jr.
> Chair, ISBD Review Group
> E-mail: [log in to unmask]
>
>
> Reply to:
> Dorothy McGarry
> P. O. Box 931119
> Los Angeles, CA 90093-1119
> USA
> Tel: +1-310-8250794
> Fax: +1-310-2069872
>
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Nick Millea
Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG
tel: 01865 287119
fax: 01865 277139
email: [log in to unmask]
homepage: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/guides/maps/
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