Encoding Standards Annual Report: 2023
submitted by Ethan D’Ver Current Roster Ethan D’Ver, Chair (2027) Janice Bunker (2026) Andrea Cawelti (2027) David Floyd (2027) Jessica Grimmer (2026) Kevin Kishimoto (2027) Anna Alfeld LoPrete (2025) Jeff Lyon (2024) Jennifer Olson (2027) Laura Thompson (2025) Hermine Vermeij (2027) Damian Iseminger, Library of Congress Representative Jay Weitz, OCLC Representative List of Previous Goals and Progress Made 1. Continue to monitor and participate in MARC development—particularly in light of pending implementation of official RDA (now expected no sooner than October 2022, and most likely later than that), and with an eye towards the facilitation of BIBFRAME/MARC conversion when possible—and communicate any needs for best practices or other documentation to help music catalogers implement new changes to MARC. In October, the former Chair revised joint MLA/OLAC MARC Discussion Paper No. 2022-DP-07, which examined the possibility of adding subfield $3 (Materials specified) to field 041 (Language code), as a MARC Proposal.