Dear Andrew, dear Robert, dear all,

 

I see.  Thank you for clarifying.

 

Maybe BCP47

https://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp47

deserves a better title, instead of “Tags for Identifying Languages” the script level covered there might have been reflected.

 

I always think of language and script as two different levels, none of which is prior to the other, and they can be combined in very creative ways.

 

Best wishes

 

Reinhold

 

 

Von: Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Im Auftrag von Andrew Cunningham
Gesendet: Montag, 18. Dezember 2017 01:02
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Betreff: Re: [BIBFRAME] CC:AAM Statement in Support of the Internationalization of BIBFRAME

 

Reinhard, 

 

BCP47 includes the use of script subtags as required.

 

Some language subtags will have supress script fields and should not have a script subtag. 

 

Many languages need a script tag to distinguish between orthographies. Some languages do not. It is covered by BCP47.

 

Andrew

On Saturday, 16 December 2017, Heuvelmann, Reinhold <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Dear Robert,

 

in addition to the previous contributions, I would like to see ISO 15924 “Codes for the representation of names of scripts” mentioned in the statement.

 

This standard provides a way to designate the information in which script a specific piece of data is encoded, using a coded value.

 

See the lists at

http://www.unicode.org/iso15924/

 

The MARC equivalents here are field 880

http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd880.html

and subfield $6 “Linkage”,

http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/ecbdcntf.html

, where only a limited set of script codes is allowed, at least up to now.

 

Best wishes

 

Reinhold

 

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Von: Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Im Auftrag von Robert J. Rendall
Gesendet: Freitag, 15. Dezember 2017 16:14
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And many thanks for the thoughtful feedback received on this list!  I'll take it back to the Committee for further discussion.

Robert

 

On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 3:30 PM, Robert J. Rendall <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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

 



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