TECHNICAL NOTICE (February 19, 2016)
Additions to Source Codes for Vocabularies, Rules, and Schemes
Network Development and MARC Standards Office Library of Congress
The source codes listed below have been recently approved. The codes will be
added to the applicable Source Codes for Vocabularies, Rules, and Schemes
lists. See the specific source code lists for current usage in MARC fields
and MODS/MADS elements.
The codes should not be used in exchange records until 60 days after the
date of this notice to provide implementers time to include newly-defined
codes in any validation tables.
Standard Identifier Source Codes
The following source codes have been added to the Standard Identifier Source
Codes list for usage in appropriate fields and elements.
Additions:
agrovoc - AGROVOC multilingual agricultural thesaurus (Rome: APIMONDIA)
Note: This code was previously defined for use in Subject Heading and Term
Source Codes. Usage has been expanded to Standard Identifier Source Codes.
allmovie - AllMovie
allmusic - AllMusic
amnbo - American National Bibliography Online
artsy - Artsy
bnfcg - BnF catalogue general (Paris: Bibliotheque nationale de France)
cgndb - Canadian Geographical Names Database (Natural Resources Canada)
Note: This code was previously defined for use in Cartographic Data Source
Codes. Usage has been expanded to Standard Identifier Source Codes.
discogs - Discogs
findagr - Find a Grave
freebase - Freebase
geonames - Geographic Names Database
Note: This code was previously defined for use in Cartographic Data Source
Codes. Usage has been expanded to Standard Identifier Source Codes.
gnis - Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) (United States Geological
Survey, Board on Geographic Names)
Note: This code was previously defined for use in Cartographic Data Source
Codes and Subject Heading and Term Source Codes. Usage has been expanded to
Standard Identifier Source Codes.
gnd - Gemeinsame Normdatei (Leipzig: Deutsche Nationalbibliotheke)
Note: This code was previously defined for use in Genre/Form Code and Term
Source Codes, Musical Instrumentation and Voice Code Source Codes, Name and
Title Authority Source Codes and Subject Heading and Term Source Codes.
Usage has been expanded to Standard Identifier Source Codes.
ibdb - IBDB - Internet Broadway Database
idref - IdRef: le referentiel des autorites Sudoc (L'agence bibliographique
de l'enseignement superieur (ABES))
imbd - IMDb - Internet Movie Database
moma - Museum of Modern Art (New York: Museum of Modern Art)
musicb - MusicBrainz
nga - National Gallery of Art (Washington DC: National Gallery of Art)
npg - National Portrait Gallery (London: National Portrait Gallery)
odnb - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press)
saam - Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington DC: Smithsonian
Institution)
rkda - RKDartists& (Den Haag: Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische
Documentatie)
wikidata - Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation)
wndla - Web NDL Authorities (Tokyo: National Diet Library (NDL))
Gender Code and Term Source Codes
The following source code has been added to the Gender Code and Term Source
Codes list for usage in appropriate fields and elements.
Addition:
rvmgd - Thesaurus des descripteurs de groupes demographiques de l'Universite
Laval (Quebec: Universite Laval)
Name and Title Authority Source Codes
The following source code has been added to the Name and Title Authority
Source Codes list for usage in appropriate fields and elements.
Addition:
nliaf - National Library of Israel Authority File (Jerusalem: National
Library of Israel)
Subject Heading and Term Source Codes
The following source code has been added to the Subject Heading and Term
Source Codes list for usage in appropriate fields and elements.
Addition:
rvmgd - Thesaurus des descripteurs de groupes demographiques de l'Universite
Laval (Quebec: Universite Laval)
Occupation Term Source Codes
The following source code has been added to the Subject Heading and Term
Source Codes list for usage in appropriate fields and elements.
Addition:
rvmgd - Thesaurus des descripteurs de groupes demographiques de l'Universite
Laval (Quebec: Universite Laval)
The Library of Congress, Network Development and MARC Standards Office
provides information about existing and newly assigned MARC codes on its Web
site (www.loc.gov/marc/) as well as notices such as these to subscribers to
its MARC listserv ([email protected]).
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