The following documents the changes contained in the fifteenth update to the 1999 edition of MARC 21 Format for Authority Data.  Update No. 15 (September 2012) includes changes resulting from proposals that were considered by the MARC 21 community during June 2012.

New content designators:

Field

883  Machine-generated Metadata Provenance  (R)

Subfield codes

$d  Title of person (R) in 368 (Other Attributes of Person or Corporate Body)

$s  Start period (NR) in 368 (Other Attributes of Person or Corporate Body)

$t  End period (NR) in 368 (Other Attributes of Person or Corporate Body)

$u  Uniform Resource Identifier (R) in 368 (Other Attributes of Person or Corporate Body)

$v  Source of information (R) in 368 (Other Attributes of Person or Corporate Body)

Code

p  Metadata provenance in Subfield code $8 - Field link and sequence number in Appendix A (Control Subfields)

Changes in content designator names and definitions:

Field

368  Other Corporate Body Attributes changed to Other Attributes of Person or Corporate Body and redefined.

Subfield code

$c  Other designation redefined in 368 (Other Attributes of Person or Corporate Body)

See also:

Appendix F:  Format Change Lists

Appendices