ADD 336/337/338 TO A FILE
This page describes options for adding RDA terms (and/or MARC codes) for tags 336/337/338 to a file of MARC records in batch mode. Please note, though, that the options used in an Edit session (set on the RDA page of the main options) are identical in most instances.
OPTIONS
The batchmode options form has two tabs or pages:
DEFAULT VALUES
This page allows you to set default values for the three required RDA elements:
Content type (336 $a and $b) Media type (337 $a and $b) Carrier type (338 $a and $b)
There is a separate dropdown list for each tag; each list contains all possible values.
Default values are used only when:
1) Automation fails to determine a definitive value while processing a record, and 2) One of the "fallback" options pertaining to default values is selected (see below)
INCLUDE $a and/or $b
There are two 'selector' options at the top of the page that determine which strings appear in the 336/7/8 dropdown lists:
Select whether you want the automation to add $a, $b, or both $a and $b, to each 336/337/338. The strings in the three dropdown lists below will reflect your decisions here. Thus, whenever you change one of the 'include' options, you should re-check the default values that follow.
Note: At present, $2 is automatically added if either $a and/or $b are added.
Note: Any time that you change either the $a checkbox or the $b checkbox, the default strings in the dropdown lists below will be re-initialized, thus requiring new selections be made for each.
There is no option to configure the $2 (Source of term/Source of code) values at this time. The program will use rdacontent, rdamedia, and rdacarrier for 336 $2, 337 $2, and 338 $2, respectively. This $2 will refer to the corresponding RDA vocabulary even if only $b (codes not derived from RDA) is included. See the example for 336 in the MARC21 documentation:
336 ##$btdm$2rdacontent
AVAILABLE LANGUAGES
Select which language to use for the default strings. The default is 'eng'. Again, the strings in the three dropdown lists below will reflect your decisions here. Thus, whenever you change the language, you should re-check the default values that follow.
If a language is greyed out, support for that language needs to be enabled in the main progam options: back out of the current dialog, go to the main program options, select the RDA page, and click on the “RDA Language support” button. If you make a change here, the program will need to be re-started in order to initialize the language data.
At present, only one language can be activated at a time. Thus, the last language selected on the option form will be the language that is in force during the run. If your file has multiple languages of cataloging (040 $b), you must make a separate pass for each language. (Hint: use MARC Review to split the file by language).
DEFAULT VALUES
Set the default strings for each tag by clicking on the dropdown arrow (on the right), and selecting the value that you prefer.
Default values are used only when:
1) automation fails to determine a definitive value while processing a record, and 2) a "fallback" option that supports default strings is selected
FALLBACK OPTION
The list of available fallback options is located on the second page of this form:
The fallback option applies ONLY when automation fails to determine the value to add to a 336, 337, or 338.
In this case, you should consider what you want the program to do.
In batch mode, there is the additional option to split the results into two files: records that were changed by the automation, and records that were not.
You might use this option in coordination with the fallback option, for example, so that records that failed automation were diverted to a separate file; this file could then be reviewed in an Edit session to see what was causing the automation to fail.
Note that any of the fallback options, other than the first one in the list, will cause a record to be changed, and thus the record will be output into the same file as all of the other records that were changed by the automation.