Conversion updates based on specifications v2.8. See the Library of Congress’s BIBFRAME site for more details. Specifications are included in the distribution in the spec directory. Changes of note:
- Conversion of MARC 880 fields for agents, which were previously not converted.
- Conversion of MARC 880 fields for variant titles (MARC 246, 247, 740), which were previously not converted.
- Added conversion of UDC classification numbers in MARC 080 field.
- Bibliographical notes in MARC 504 fields are now converted as notes instead of as supplementary content.
- Adjustmented the creation of relationships to use the vocabulary at https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relationship.html instead of BIBFRAME properties.
- Retention of MARC 040 field as a note in Admin Metadata.
- Refined conversion of MARC 7XX fields that have data in $i and Ind2=2 to selectively create resources with a “part” relationship.
See the NEWS file and the updated specifications for full details of changes. Changes from v2.7.0 in the specifications are marked in red.