Boron chemistry at the beginning of the 21st century / Yu.N. Bubnov, editor-in-chief. (OCLC #910921812)
RDA 11.13.1.8.1 on creating an Access Point for a Single Instance of a Conference, says to add the number, date, and location to the access point for the conference, as in:
111 2_ ǂa International Conference on the Chemistry of Boron ǂn (11th : ǂd 2002 : ǂc Moscow, Russia)
Most relator terms in an RDA MARC record will appear in a ǂe of the access point field. For example:
100 1_ ǂa Snicket, Lemony, ǂe author. 700 1_ ǂa Klassen, Jon, ǂe illustrator. 710 2_ ǂa IBM de Chile, ǂe sponsoring body.
The added entry field for Meeting names, 711, uses ǂe for a different element (“subordinate unit”), so in that field, the relator term goes in a ǂj. For example, if you want to add an access point for a conference as a sponsoring body, it is encoded like:
711 2_ ǂa AAPG Convention ǂd (1992 : ǂc Calgary, Alberta),
ǂj sponsoring body.
Similarly, subfield ǂj is also used for the relator term in 111, 611 and 811.
Geology of the foothills and front ranges west of Calgary, Alberta : guidebook / compilers and leaders, Thomas E. Kubli and Robert J. Leibel. (OCLC #874154841)
Cataloging these geology field trip guidebooks, I have been adding access points for the meeting in a 711, but feeling weird about not linking them with relators. Are there even relator terms whose descriptions refer to meetings of conferences? Also, ǂe of 711 has a different meaning (“subordinate unit”), so where would the relator go?
RDA Chapter 11 says that conferences (also events like festivals) are considered corporate bodies, and that chapter includes instructions for recording the number of a conference, so relators that are used for corporate bodies can be used for conferences when that makes sense.
The OCLC Bib Formats page for 711 says that there is a subfield for relators: ǂj. (Apparently this subfield has been around since OCLC Tech Bulletin 255 in 2008 – who knew?)
For this record, I added the access point, complete with the relator term:
711 2_ ǂa AAPG Convention ǂd (1992 : ǂc Calgary, Alberta),
ǂj sponsoring body.