The following documents the changes contained in the fifteenth update to the 1999 edition of MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic 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 code

$q  Qualifying information (R) in 028 (Publisher Number)

Codes

k  Vocal score in Music 008/20 (Format of music)

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

Changes in content designator names and definitions:

Codes

c  Accompaniment reduced for keyboard redescribed in Music 008/20 (Format of music)

d  Voice score changed to Voice score with accompaniment omitted and redescribed in Music 008/20 (Format of music)

h  Chorus score redescribed in Music 008/20 (Format of music)

The following fields did not have technical changes but contain editorial modifications:

Fields

024  Other Standard Identifier

041  Language Code

546  Language Note

See also:

Appendix G:  Format Change Lists

Appendices