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883 - Machine-generated Metadata Provenance (R)

MARC 21 Authority - concise
December 2017

Used to provide information about the provenance of metadata in data fields in the record, with special provision for machine generation. Field 883 contains a link to the field to which it pertains. Intended for use with data fields that have been fully or partially machine-generated, i.e., generated by some named process other than intellectual creation.

Indicators

First - Method of machine assignment
# - No information provided/not applicable
0 - Fully machine-generated
1 - Partially machine-generated
Second - Undefined
# - Undefined

Subfield Codes

$a - Generation process (NR)
$c - Confidence value (NR)
$d - Generation date (NR)
$q - Generation agency (NR)
Code from: MARC Code List for Organizations.
$x - Validity end date (NR)
$u - Uniform Resource Identifier (NR)
$w - Bibliographic record control number (R)
System control number of the related record preceded by the MARC code, enclosed in parentheses, for the agency to which the control number applies.
$0 - Authority record control number or standard number (R)
See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.
$1 - Real World Object URI (R)
See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.
$8 - Field link and sequence number (R)
See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.
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