Can we add a note to mention ONIX technique is applicable to UNIMARC?

[gautierchomel]

UNIMARC 231i (pdf file) offers a easy mapping to ONIX. So the ONIX techniques can be applied to UNIMARC in a predictable formulae.

Example :
ONIX 196 code 36 will be expressed in UNIMARC as 231 ##$i36$2onix196 (exact syntax to be confirmed).

Should we add this information to Display Guide section 2.3 Metadata techniques?

[chrcarr]

Can this discussion be postponed? The next meeting of the IFLA Accessibility Metadata Crosswalks/Mappings Working Group is November 6. We will hopefully be discussing the UNIMARC crossswalk at that meeting.

[gautierchomel]

@chrcarr, do you have an update on the subject?

[chrcarr]

The next meeting of the IFLA Accessibility Metadata Crosswalks Group is December 16. I should have more information for you after this meeting.

[chrcarr]

@gautierchomel The UNICODE member said that you can say post the UNICODE technique you have suggested (as a stopgap method), but that the UNIMARC committee was reviewing its approach to recording accessibility metadata for all formats (not just electronic), and there might be changes or additions coming in the future.

[gautierchomel]

Thanks @chrcarr .
My understanding is that any ONIX code can be used, and as ONIX has almost all formats, an embossed Unified English Braille could be identified with something like ##$iB706$2onix175 and a large print with dys readability with something like ##$iLTE$2onix21 and ##$i24$2onix196 .

[chrcarr]

@gautierchomel The issue is not with ONIX, but the UNIMARC field, which is only applicable to digital formats. Accessibility details of physical formats cannot be recorded in this field.

[gautierchomel]

Thank you for the explanation.