Conversion updates based on specifications v2.7. See the Library of Congress’s BIBFRAME site for more details. Specifications are included in the distribution in the spec directory. Changes of note:
- New conversion of relationships and related works to mirror the existing contribution-role modeling of agents.
- New conversion of language resources in MARC 041 field to create language-specific notes or language-specific accompanying resources according to the information in each subfield.
- Identifiers from OCLC in MARC 035 field are assigned to the new Identifier class bf:OclcNumber to facilitate data exchange activities.
- Classification numbers from the National Agriculture Library in MARC 070 field are assigned to the new classification class bf:ClassificationNal
- Title information from MARC 1XX fields is now converted.
- Further refinements to the creation of Series Hubs from 490 fields.
See the NEWS file and the updated specifications for full details of changes. Changes from v2.6.0 in the specifications are marked in red.