MARC tag/field edit permissions

[Elaine Hardy]

Wishlist item from the Cataloging Interest Group meeting Evergreen 2014.

Within MARC Edit, the ability to set permissions by MARC tag/field so that a library could assign editing tasks for a specific field to an individual user. For example, allowing a user to edit only the 300 field in the MARC record and not be able to edit any other field.

In addition to being controlled by permissions, the ability to allow specific tag/field edits should also be a library or server setting so that a library or consortium can allow or disallow the functionality as a whole.

[Galen Charlton (gmc)]

Given the number of MARC tags that are defined, I think that it might be useful to figure out a way to express the permissions as concisely as possible, possibly through use of wildcards.

Could folks provide some examples of (more-or-less) complete profiles of which tags a given type of cataloger or copy-cataloger would be allowed to edit?

Are there circumstances whereby somebody would be allowed to manage particular subfields but not others within a field?

Is there a need to be able to distinguish between permissions to add a field, modify its contents, or remove it?

[Mary Llewellyn (mllewell)]

I would like to see a permissions table allowing the sys admin to list the MARC tags in question with the ability to check flags to allow for tag creation, editing, and deletion.

In our case, we would allow the cataloger to edit tag 300 and add tags 520, 590, and 69x local subject headings.