v2.8.0
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:
- Added creation of paired MARC 880 fields for agents
- Improved 880 support for variant titles
- Added conversion of MARC 080 field
- Added conversion of $u to MARC 510 field
- Updated creation of MARC 504 field to use bf:note instead of bf:supplementaryContent
- Corrected relationships within the relation - Relation ... elements to align the specifications with the conversion program
- Added bf:genreForm mapping to populate 008/24-27 bytes; previously only the bf:supplementaryContent values were mapped
- Add creation of 008/39 value from data elements in Admin Metadata
- Support for 008 date type 'q'
- Numerous bug fixes
See the NEWS file for full details of changes.