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<tr><td width="30">&nbsp;</td><td width="470"><font size="2"><strong>June 2, 2005</strong> [posted]</font><br />
<font size="2"><strong>February 27, 2006</strong> [<a href = "#note">note added</a>]</font>
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<tr><td width="30">&nbsp;</td><td width="470"><font size="5"><strong>Request for Comments on
Discontinuing Distribution of Cataloging Bibliographic Records with Artificially Reconstructed Subject Strings</strong></font><br /></td><td width="30">&nbsp;</td></tr>
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<em><a name = "note">[Editor's</a> Note: The Response to NLMs request for comments can be found in <a href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so05/so05_marc.html">Subject Headings in NLM MARC 21 Products. NLM Tech Bull. 2005 Sep-Oct;(346):e6.</a>]</em>
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LM is proposing to discontinue distributing its cataloging bibliographic records with artificially reconstructed subject strings.
Records in MARC format would continue to have MeSH headings combined with the appropriate topical subheadings, but age group and
pregnancy subdivisions, geographic locations, and publication types would be carried in separate fields in the record, rather
than as subfields of the MeSH heading.
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This would mean that records distributed to bibliographic utilities and other licensees would be identical to the records in LocatorPlus.
NLM's understanding is that many medical libraries would prefer to establish their headings in the same manner that NLM does internally.
Where libraries are still using the complete subject string, they often are still making local adjustments to the current strings to make them
compatible with the older headings in their databases, so they are not using the strings as found in the utilities.
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By no longer distributing reconstructed subject strings, NLM will be able to streamline its cataloging process by avoiding the complex
tagging and coding needed to reconstruct the strings properly on output. This will avoid the creation of sometimes nonsensical subject
strings that occasionally are automatically generated by the reconstruction program. In the online environment, deconstructed subject
headings provide more simplicity and semantic interoperability.
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<dt>Example:</dt>
<dt>Currently Catfile licensees receive MARC formatted records with the following data:</dt>
<dd>650 _2 &#36;a Main heading &#36;x topical subheading &#36;x age group &#36;z geographic location &#36;v Publication
Type/Genre &#36;x language </dd>
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<dt>In the future, distributed records would contain the following data:</dt>
<dd>650 _2 &#36;a Main heading &#36;x topical subheading </dd>
<dd>650 _ 2 &#36;a Age group</dd>
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651 _2 &#36;a Geographic location &#36;x topical subheading </dd>
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655 _7 &#36;a Publication Type/Genre &#36;2 mesh </dd>
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&#36;x language would not appear in the 650 (subject) field. Language information would still be found in the 008 (fixed field) and the 041 field.
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NLM is interested in hearing if libraries would like to continue to have &#36;x language appended to the subject string on distributed records
when one of the following publication types is used: Dictionary, Encyclopedias, Phrases or Terminology.
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The proposed change would be reflected in NLM's cataloging bibliographic records distributed to licensees and would begin to appear in bibliographic
utilities (e.g., OCLC, RLIN) in December 2005, when NLM resumes MARC record distribution after internal year-end processing to implement MeSH 2006.
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Please send comments on this proposal by August 15, 2005 to:
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<dd>Diane Boehr</dd>
<dd>Head, Cataloging</dd>
<dd>National Library of Medicine</dd>
<dd>8600 Rockville Pike, Room 1N11</dd>
<dd>Bethesda, MD 20894</dd>
<dd><a href="mailto:boehrd@mail.nlm.nih.gov">boehrd@mail.nlm.nih.gov</a></dd>
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NLM will make the final decision on whether or not to implement this change by September 30, 2005.
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<strong>By Diane Boehr</strong><br />
<strong>Cataloging Section</strong><br />
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<em>Boehr D. Request for Comments on
Discontinuing Distribution of Cataloging Bibliographic Records with Artificially Reconstructed Subject Strings. NLM Tech Bull. 2005 May-Jun;(344):e8.</em>
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