MARC 21 Format for Classification Data: 883: Machine-generated Metadata Provenance (Network Development and MARC Standards Office, Library of Congress)

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): See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.

$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.

883 - Machine-generated Metadata Provenance (R)

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Subfield Codes