Overview of MARC 21 format elements carrying provenance information (data about metadata), most of them in use by the German National Library

1. 1
Provenance in MARC 21
Reinhold Heuvelmann

2. Format-Elemente (1)
– Satzkennung
- 05: Record status
- 17: Encoding level
- 18: Descriptive cataloging form
– Feld 008
- 00-05: Date entered on file
- 39: Cataloging Source
– Feld 040: Cataloging Source
- $a: Original cataloging agency
- $b: Language of cataloging
- $c: Transcribing agency
- $d: Modifying agency
- $e: Description conventions
– Feld 042: Authentication Code
– Feld 588: Source of Description Note
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Format-Elemente (2)
– Feld 883: Machine-generated Metadata Provenance
- First Indicator: Method of machine assignment
- #: No information provided/not applicable
- 0: Fully machine-generated
- 1: Partially machine-generated
- Unterfelder:
- $a: Generation process
- $c: Confidence value
- $d: Generation date
- $q: Generation agency
- $x: Validity end date
- $u: Uniform Resource Identifier
- $w: Bibliographic record control number
- $0: Authority record control number or standard number
- $8: Field link and sequence number
- Field link type "p": Metadata provenance

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Format-Elemente (3)
– Feld 884: Description Conversion Information
- Unterfelder:
- $a: Conversion process
- $g: Conversion date
- $k: Identifier of source metadata
- $q: Conversion agency
- $u: Uniform Resource Identifier
– Unterfeld $5: Institution to which field applies
- Item level information
- Local cataloging policy
- Cataloging agency
(vgl. teilweise Unterfeld $q: Agency)

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Format-Elemente (4)
– Unterfeld $6: Linkage
- linking tag
- occurrence number
- script identification code
- field orientation code
– "067" / "881":
"Transliteration / Romanization Information"
MARC Discussion Paper Mai 2016:
"Designating a Norm or Standard used for Romanization in
the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format"
http://www.loc.gov/marc/mac/2016/2016-dp26.html

6. Provenance
satzweise ...
| 8 | Reinhold Heuvelmann | Provenance in MARC 21 | 25. Juli 20166

7. ... und Provenance feldweise
– einfach:
082 74$a810$aB$qDE-101$223sdnb
http://d-nb.info/1070332119
– mit Feld 883:
001 1099314038
082 74$81p$a400$qDE-101$223sdnb
245 10$aComic in Polen - Polen im Comic
883 1$81p$aAblieferung ONIX$d20160503$qDE-101
http://d-nb.info/1099314038
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8. Danke.
Fragen,
Ergänzungen,
Anregungen?
| 8 | Reinhold Heuvelmann | Provenance in MARC 21 | 25. Juli 20168