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<p class="MsoNormal">We code as $5 (NjP) 655 entries (and the accompanying 500 field notes) that refer to aspects at the item level – or “copy specific” in bibliographicese.  These are generally unique to the copy at hand.  The exception among the RBMS thesauri
 would be terms from the Genre thesaurus terms, which apply more broadly to the work.  I’d be interested in what others do in this regard too.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In that general connection, I’d also be interested to know how others are generally using sub-field divisions Form/Genre terms.  I seem to recall from MidWinter that many were subdividing chronologically only by century.  Is that an accurate
 recollection?  I’d also be interested in if/how others might be subdividing 655 terms geographically, and if so at what level”:  city, state/province/county, or country? If geographic aspects (inscriptions or bookseller tickets, for instance) can be reasonably
 identified with a location, that is.</p>
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At the Beinecke we do the same. I was mistaken to say "instance" and not "occurrence." Perhaps the 655s could be sorted out on that basis.</div>
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<b>From:</b> DCRM-L <dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Young, Stephen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 27, 2020 11:31 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> DCRM Users' Group <dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [DCRM-L] 655 field -- migration</p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">Our practice for Beinecke records is to add subfield 5 CtY-BR to those 655s that apply to instance and not work. Do others follow a similar practice?</span></p>
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<b><span style="color:black">From:</span></b><span style="color:black"> DCRM-L <<a href="mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu">dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu</a>> on behalf of Lapka, Francis <<a href="mailto:francis.lapka@yale.edu">francis.lapka@yale.edu</a>><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia Pro",serif">In a 2018 report on a MARC-to-BIBFRAME data conversion executed by Casalini for Yale, a Yale TF had this to say about the 655 field:</span></p>
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… Conversion of the 655 field clashes with the ambiguity inherent in MARC bibliographic records; this field could map to work, instance, or item properties. To overcome MARC’s ambiguity in such fields, a converter would have to employ pattern recognition that
 goes beyond the MARC encoding: for example, treating all 655 fields with the value “rbprov” in subfield $2 as bf:genreForm with a domain of bf:Item. This might add considerable complexity to the conversion specification, but without this upfront complexity,
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia Pro",serif">As the day nears when we may need to convert our MARC to BIBFRAME for production usage, I’m curious if other institutions have started to make plans for how to migrate 655 data to the correct Work/Instance/Item
 (WII) entity. In BIBFRAME, the <a href="https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fid.loc.gov%2Fontologies%2Fbibframe.html%23p_genreForm&data=02%7C01%7Cstephen.young%40yale.edu%7C4cb2dfa787bd4b34501508d8029760fd%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C1%7C637262196485433439&sdata=tGh7GQMHGGoBncUlvJXpaXYOJRpHZUoZUIgCrla6BJ0%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe.html#p_genreForm" shash="IKXLJE/bx0ot0mvL8+xVQramXbwBYDEQVw2yahNUPPdPKxdJGuwcZxTJK6A8/yluSDfsJDXHz4oCTcMoTsTkCSxqX+Y+24+eNSvsOy8iqXDl3Hnt1TnVwxWfy9h7tZVyKXu2bgLIOs1zsKx82Y3Js7dcWn5z9G9J95BetBghQpY=">
genreForm property</a> can be used with work, instance, or item.  In the Library of Congress MARC-to-BIBFRAME conversion specification, the 655 field maps always to bf:Work (see
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this LC specification</a>). </span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia Pro",serif">Has your institution started to consider the issue? If so, what are your plans?
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia Pro",serif">More questions:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia Pro",serif">Would it be acceptable to migrate all 655 data to the bf:Work?</span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia Pro",serif">If we’d like 655 data to migrate to Work, Instance, and Item, as appropriate, it seems that there are two broad options to consider:</span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia Pro",serif">Leave the 655 data unchanged (from current practice) but add a considerable amount of complexity to the conversion spec to make the WII distinctions; or</span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia Pro",serif">Adjust the 655 data in some manner before data conversion, so that WII distinctions are clearly articulated in MARC, requiring less complexity from the conversion spec.</span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia Pro",serif">In method A – leave the 655 data unchanged – what would be a reasonable strategy? Possibilities:</span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia Pro",serif">Make broad mapping rules based on the thesaurus value in 655 subfield $2. For example, $2 rbprov data maps to Item (works well), $2 rbbin maps to Item (accurate more often than not), $2 gmgpc maps to Instance (mostly
 true), $2 rbgenr maps to Work (mostly true?), and so on.</span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia Pro",serif">Make detailed mapping rules accounting for every expected term, e.g. Publisher’s cloth bindings maps to Instance, and so on.
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia Pro",serif">Both of these possibilities assume that the converter – likely the work of a vendor – is able to incorporate such complexity.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia Pro",serif">In method B – adjust the 655 data before conversion – what’s reasonable? I can think of at least one possibility:</span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia Pro",serif">Add a new nugget of data to the 655 entry to declare a term’s WII alignment. For example, how about a (newly defined) subfield $i? Such a subfield could align the data with WII/WEMI properties, e.g. 655 _7 $i gf-item
 $a Bookplates. $2 rbgenr</span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia Pro",serif">What are the other possibilities? What’s most likely to succeed?</span></p>
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