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Appendix F - Format Changes


MARC 21 Community Information
December 2017

This section is provided for the lists of format changes that accompany each update to the MARC 21 Format for Community Information.


MARC 21 FORMAT FOR COMMUNITY INFORMATION

FORMAT CHANGE LIST

Update No. 25, December 2017
This page documents the changes contained in the twenty-fifth update to the 1999 edition of the MARC 21 Format for Community Information. Update No. 25 (December 2017) includes changes resulting from proposals that were considered by the MARC 21 community during June 2017.

Format changes in previous updates can be found on the MARC Format Overview page.

New content designators:
Subfields
$1Real World Object URI (R) in the following fields:
         043 (Geographic Area Code),
         100 (Primary Name-Personal),
         110 (Primary Name-Corporate),
         111 (Primary Name-Meeting),
         600 (Subject Added Entry-Personal Name),
         610 (Subject Added Entry-Corporate Name),
         611 (Subject Added Entry-Meeting Name),
         630 (Subject Added Entry-Uniform Title),
         648 (Subject Added Entry-Chronological Term),
         650 (Subject Added Entry-Topical Term),
         651 (Subject Added Entry-Geographic Name),
         654 (Subject Added Entry-Faceted Topical Terms),
         656 (Index Term-Occupation),
         657 (Index Term-Function),
         700 (Added Entry-Personal Name),
         710 (Added Entry-Corporate Name),
         711 (Added Entry-Meeting Name),
         730 (Added Entry-Publication Title),
         883 (Machine-generated Metadata Provenance),
         Appendix A (Control Subfields).


UPDATE 25 LOCAL PRINT GUIDE

The following sections and fields were created/changed in Update No. 25 and should be printed to keep a print copy of the format up-to-date. Changes appear in red.


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