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BIBFRAME December 2017

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Re: CC:AAM Statement in Support of the Internationalization of BIBFRAME

From:

Andrew Cunningham <[log in to unmask]>

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Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative Forum <[log in to unmask]>

Date:

Mon, 18 Dec 2017 18:59:51 +1100

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Dear Juha,

BCP 47 currently includes both RFC 5646 and RFC 4647, so a reference
to RFC 5646 does not equate to BCP 47.

MARC language identification remaining as it is is quite probable. It
fails already in web catalogues, but it is unlikely to change.

The issue is whether BIBFRAME will limit itself to the same ecosystem
or will integrate into the wider web. BCP-47 is the norm for the rest
of the web. And whether tools and scripts that utilise BIBFRAME will
have to extrapolate or guess language data.

Andrew
Andrew Cunningham
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On 18 December 2017 at 18:13, Hakala, Juha E <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
>
> since BCP 47 has been published as RFC 5646, it is already included as a
> code source in http://www.loc.gov/standards/sourcelist/language.html. In
> order to clarify this, the source list could be modified to say “A language
> identifier as specified by the Internet Engineering Task Force Best Current
> Practice 47 (RFC5646)”.
>
>
>
> It is in principle quite simple to use ISO 639 – and especially ISO 639-2 -
> for cataloguing (being a member of ISO 639/JAC, I know only too well that
> maintaining ISO 639-2 can be difficult at times). But if libraries start
> using BCP 47 instead or in addition to ISO 639, it might be necessary to
> provide guidelines on how it should be used and how the resulting codes
> should be indexed. It is easy for the library systems to deal with ISO 639-2
> codes, but the full functionality of BCP 47 is not trivial to support well.
> There are situations when it would be useful to specify the region where the
> language variant is spoken and/or the script in which the text is written,
> but to decrypt the resulting BCP 47 codes for OPAC display could be a
> challenge. Some examples of language tags from BCP 47:
>
>
>
> en-US represents American English
>
>
>
> de-CH represents Swiss German; note that the existing ISO 639-2 code gsw for
> Schwiizerdütsch does not need to be used
>
>
>
> de-CH-1901 means Swiss German using the 1901 variant ortography
>
>
>
> Private extensions are possible with “x-“:
>
>
>
> de-CH-x-phonebk might mean Swiss German used in phone books.
>
>
>
> Mandarin Chinese can be encoded in two ways: cmn (the code for Mandarin from
> ISO 6393) or zh-cmn (macrolanguage code for Chinese from ISO 639-1 and
> 639-3). With script and region information added the BCP 47 tag might become
> zh-cmn-Hans-CH (Chinese, Mandarin, Simplified script, as used in China).
>
>
>
> es-419 represents Spanish in UN-defined Latin America and Caribbean region
>
>
>
> en-scotland-fonipa represents a text in Scottish dialect, written in
> International Phonetic Alphabet.
>
>
>
> sr-Latn-RS represents Serbian (sr) written using Latin script (Latn) as used
> in Serbia. Note that two-letter language code from ISO 639-1 must be used in
> one exists.
>
>
>
> sl-rozaj-biske-1994 represents San Giorgio dialect of Resian dialect of
> Slovenian, in standardized Resian ortography
>
>
>
> Using BCP 47 in its simplest level (two letter codes from ISO 639-1) would
> not bring mch added value to the current ISO 639-2 usage. Having both two-
> and three-letter codes of languages in MARC records might be confusing. If
> and when BCP 47 is used, it should be done when it provides added value, for
> instance to describe a resource written in a dialect that cannot be
> described in ISO 639 (note that ISO 639-6 which was supposed to cover
> dialects have been discontinued) or in a script which is not typical for the
> language or the region. But just asking the cataloguers to start using BCP
> 47 without any additional guidelines may not be the ideal solution given the
> rich functionality supported by the specification.
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>
>
> Juha
>
>
>
>
>
> From: Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative Forum
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Andrew Cunningham
> Sent: 18. joulukuuta 2017 2:09
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [BIBFRAME] CC:AAM Statement in Support of the
> Internationalization of BIBFRAME
>
>
>
> Rebecca.
>
>
>
> Using iso-639-1, iso-639-2/B or iso-639-3 is insufficient.
>
>
>
> BCP47 includes subtag for language, script, region and variant as well as a
> series of extension mechanisms such as -t- sequences.
>
>
>
> BCP47 also addresses duplication between iso-639-1, iso-639-2/T and
> iso-639-3.
>
>
>
> On Saturday, 16 December 2017, Rebecca Guenther <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> The need to be able to use ISO 639-1 and 639-3 language codes was recognized
> by the MARC community some time ago (actually in 2001), and there is a
> mechanism to record them in field 041, e.g.
>
>
>
> 041 07 $a en $a fr $2 iso639-1
>
>
>
> I’m not sure how widely implemented it is. Subfield $2 contains the source
> of the code and the sources are in the list at
> http://www.loc.gov/standards/sourcelist/language.html. At the time, the RFCs
> were being used (and as you can see from the list of source codes, they were
> revised a lot). BCP 47 could be added to the source code list so that it
> could be used in MARC records for now.
>
>
>
> Rebecca
>
>
>
> Rebecca Squire Guenther
> 215 W. 75th St. Apt. 16H
> New York, NY 10023
> 703-298-0157
> [log in to unmask]
> http://www.meetyourdata.com
>
> On Dec 14, 2017, at 2:48 AM, Osma Suominen <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> Most existing MARC data incorporates use of the language codes found in ISO
> 693-2/B. While the codes in this standard are useful, it may be necessary in
> implementation to accommodate the codes from ISO 639-1 (2-letter codes) and
> ISO 639-3 as well.
>
>
> Adhering to BCP 47 would already provide a mechanism for expressing ISO
> 639-1 and 639-3 language codes, so I don't see why the implementation-level
> consideration is not simply to use BCP 47 as was already stated under
> General considerations.
>
>
> -Osma
>
>
>
>
> Robert J. Rendall kirjoitti 13.12.2017 klo 22:30:
>
> Colleagues -
> The ALA/ALCTS Committee on Cataloging: Asian and African Materials (CC:AAM)
> has voted to approve a Statement in Support of the Internationalization of
> BIBFRAME, containing recommendations on character encoding, the
> representation of original script and romanization, normalization, and
> language tags:
> http://connect.ala.org/node/271553
> Robert Rendall
> Chair, CC:AAM 2017-2018
> http://www.ala.org/alcts/mgrps/camms/cmtes/ats-ccscataa
> Robert Rendall
> Principal Serials Cataloger
> Original and Special Materials Cataloging, Columbia University Libraries
> 102 Butler Library, 535 West 114th Street, New York, NY 10027
> tel.: 212 851 2449 fax: 212 854 5167
>
>
>
> --
> Osma Suominen
> D.Sc. (Tech), Information Systems Specialist
> National Library of Finland
> P.O. Box 26 (Kaikukatu 4)
> 00014 HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO
> Tel. +358 50 3199529
> [log in to unmask]
> http://www.nationallibrary.fi
>
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Andrew Cunningham
>
> [log in to unmask]
>
>

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