TECHNICAL NOTICE (June 26, 2015)
Additions to Source Codes for Vocabularies, Rules, and
Schemes
Network Development and MARC Standards
Office
Library of Congress
The source codes listed below have been recently approved. The codes will be added to applicable
Source Codes for Vocabularies, Rules, and Schemes lists.
See the specific source code list for current usage in MARC fields and MODS/MADS elements.
The codes should not be used in exchange records until 60 days
after the date of this notice to provide implementers time to
include newly-defined codes in any validation tables.
Gender Code and Term Source Codes
The following source code has been added to the
Gender Code and Term Source Codes list for usage in
appropriate fields and elements.
- Addition:
- lcdgt -
LC Demographic Group Terms (Library of Congress)
Occupation Term Source Codes
The following source code has been added to the
Occupation Term Source Codes list for usage in
appropriate fields and elements.
- Addition:
- lcdgt -
LC Demographic Group Terms (Library of Congress)
Resource Action Term Source Codes
The following source code has been added to the
Resource Action Term Source Codes list for usage in
appropriate fields and elements.
- Addition:
- pet - Preservation event types
Taxonomic Classification Source Codes
The following source codes have been added to the
Taxonomic Classification Source Codes list for usage in
appropriate fields and elements.
- Additions:
- antbase -
Antbase (American Museum of Natural History)
- ildis -
ILDIS World Database of Legumes (ILDIS (International Legume Database & Information Service))
- itis -
ITIS: Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- iucnrl -
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources)
- mayfly -
Mayfly Central (Purdue University)
- msow -
Mammal Species of the World
- ncbitb -
NCBI Taxonomy Browser (NCBI/GenBank)
- nsexpl -
NatureServe Explorer (NatureServe)
- nominain -
Nomina Insecta Nearctica
- nsinfo -
InfoNatura (NatureServe)
- orthosf -
Orthoptera Species File Online
- paleobdb -
The Paleobiology Database
- pctenl -
Phylum Ctenophora: list of all valid species names
- pgrc -
Plant Gene Resources of Canada: GRIN-CA Taxonomy
(Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)
- plantl -
The Plant List (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden)
- plantsdb -
PLANTS Database (United States Department of Agriculture)
- reptiledb -
The Reptile Database
- scorpf -
The Scorpion Files
- sysdip -
Systema Dipterorum: the BioSystematic Database of World Diptera
- taxdros -
TaxoDros: the Database on Taxonomy of Drosophilidaea
- termitedb -
On-line Termite Database
- trichwc -
Trichoptera World Checklist
- wasterdb -
World Asteroidea Database
- wikispc -
Wikispecies
- wodonatal -
World Odonata List
- wophidb -
World Ophiuroidea Database
- worms -
WoRMS: World Register of Marine Species
- wporidb -
World Porifera Database
- wremidb -
World Remipedia Database
- wspiderdb -
World Spider Catalog (World Spider Catalog Association WSCA)
- wturtledb -
World Turtle Database
Change: On September 18, 2014 the following code was defined for usage in the
Subject Heading and Term Source Codes
list:
mao/tao - MAO/TAO - Ontologi för museibranschen och Konstindustriella
ontologin. It has been changed to maotao. We apologize for any problems this mau cause for systems in
which it has been recently implemented..
The Library of Congress, Network Development and MARC
Standards Office provides information about existing and newly
assigned source codes on its Web site (www.loc.gov/marc/).
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