Description Convention Source Codes
Introduction
Description Convention Source
Codes
Description Convention Source Code
Usage in MARC and MODS
Introduction
Description Convention Sources identifies standard rules or guidelines for describing bibliographic resources, commonly called cataloging rules, and assigns a code to each source. The purpose of this list is to enable the source of description guidelines in metadata records to be indicated by a code. For code assignment, general structure, usage, and maintenance guidelines see Source Codes for Vocabularies, Rules, and Schemes.
Arrangement of the List
Entries in the list are arranged in alphabetical order by the code and consist of the source code followed by the bibliographic citation for the source documentation. The citations are linked to the online source for some codes.
Code Structure
Each code consists of a maximum of 12 characters, including lowercase alphabetic characters, numeric characters 0 through 9, and the hyphen (-). Possible additions to codes are described in Source Codes.
Description Convention Source Codes
- aacr
- Anglo-American cataloguing rules (Chicago: American Library Association)
- amim
- Archival moving image materials (Washington: Library of Congress)
- amremm
- Pass, Gregory A. Descriptive cataloging of ancient, medieval, Renaissance, and early-modern manuscripts (Chicago: Association of College & Research Libraries)
- appm
- Hensen, Steven L. Archives, personal papers, and manuscripts (Washington: Library of Congress)
- bdrb
- Bibliographic description of rare books (Washington: Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service)
- bps
- McCrum, Blanche Prichard. Bibliographical procedures and style (Washington: Library of Congress, General Reference and Bibliography Division)
- cco
- Cataloging cultural objects: a guide to describing cultural works and their images (Chicago: Visual Resources Association, American Library Association)
- ccr
- Chinese cataloging rules (Taiwan: National Central Library)
- cgcrb
-
Cataloging guidelines for creating Chinese rare book records in
machine-readable form = 中文善本書機讀目錄編目規則
(Research Library Group)
- crlp
- Hallam, Adele. Cataloging rules for the description of looseleaf publications: with special emphasis on legal materials (Washington: Library of Congress)
- dacs
- Describing archives: a content standard (Chicago: Society of American Archivists)
- dcgpm
- Descriptive cataloging guidelines for pre-Meiji Japanese books (Subcommittee on Japanese Rare Books, Committee on Japanese Materials, Council on East Asian Libraries)
- dcrb
- Descriptive cataloging of rare books (Washington, DC: Cataloging Distribution Service, Library of Congress)
- dcrmb
- Descriptive cataloging of rare materials (Books) (Washington, DC: Cataloging Distribution Service, Library of Congress)
- dcrmc
- Descriptive cataloging of rare materials (Cartographic)
(Chicago: Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of
College and Research Libraries)
- dcrmg
-
DCRM(G): Descriptive cataloging of rare materials (Graphics)
(Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, Association of College &
Research Libraries)
- dcrmm
- DCRM(M): Descriptive cataloging of rare materials (Music) (Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries)
- dcrmmss
- DCRM(MSS): Descriptive cataloging of rare materials (Manuscripts)
(Chicago: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries)
- dcrms
- Descriptive cataloging of rare materials (Serials) (Washington, DC: Cataloging Distribution Service, Library of Congress)
- din1505
- Titelangaben von Dokumenten (Berlin: Beuth)
- dmbsb
- Dokumentation av materialets behandling i SB 1700-1829 (Stockholm: Kungl. Biblioteket)
- enol
- Ekspertiza i nauchno-tekhnicheskaia obrabotka lichnykh arkhivnykh fondov: metodicheskiie rekomendatsii (Moskva: Gosudarstvennaia biblioteka SSSR im. V. I. Lenin)
- estc
- Eighteenth century short title catalogue, the cataloguing rules (London: The British Library)
- fobidrtb
- Federatie van Organisaties op het Gebied van het Bibliotheek-Informatie-en Dokumentatiewezen (FOBID) Regels voor de titelbeschrijving (Den Haag: Nederlands Bibliotheek en Lektuur Centrum)
- gihc
- Betz, Elisabeth W. Graphic materials (Washington: Library of Congress)
- hmstcn
- Handleiding voor de medewerkers aan de STCN ('s Gravenhage: Koninklijke Bibliotheek) [Short title catalog of the Netherlands]
- iosr
- “Instruktsiia po opisaniiu slaviano-russkikh rukopisei XI-XIV vv. dlia Svodnogo kataloga rukopisei, khraniashchikhsia v SSSR” in Arkheologicheskii ezhegodnik za 1975 god. (Moskva: Izd-vo Akademii)
- isbd
- ISBD: International standard bibliographic description (ISBD Review Group/Standing Committee of the IFLA Cataloguing Section)
- katreg
- Katalogiseringsregler: Anglo-American cataloguing rules, second edition /oversatt og bearbiedet for Norske forhold ved Inger Cathrine Spangen (Oslo: Nasjonalbiblioteket)
- kbsdb
- Katalogiseringsregler og bibliografisk standard for danske biblioteker (Ballerup: Dansk BiblioteksCenter)
- kids
-
Katalogisierungsregeln Informationsverbund Deutschschweiz
(Zürich: Informationsverbund Deutschschweiz)
- krsb
- Katalogiseringsregler for svenska bibliotek (Lund: Bibliotekstjanst)
- lcmpt
- Library of Congress medium of performance thesaurus for music (LCMPT)
(Washington, DC: Library of Congress)
- local
- Locally defined or unknown cataloging rules
- mmlcc
- Manual of map library classification and cataloguing (London: Ministry of Defence)
- ncafnor
- Normes de catalogage publiées par l'Association française de normalisation (Paris: AFNOR)
- ncr
- Nihon mokuroku kisoku = [Nippon cataloging rules] (Tokyo: National Diet Library)
- ncs
- Norme per il catalogo degli stampati (Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca apostolica vaticana)
- ohcm
- Matters, Marion E. Oral history cataloging manual (Chicago: Society of American Archivists)
- pi
- Instruktionen für die alphabetischen Kataloge der preussischen Bibliotheken (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrasowitz)
- pn
- Provider-neutral e-resource MARC record guidelines (Library of Congress, Program for Cooperative Cataloging)
- ppiak
- Verona, Eva. Pravilnik i prirucnik za izradbu abecednih kataloga (Zagreb: Hrvatsko bibliotekarsko drustvo)
- psbo
- Pravila sostavleníìa bibliograficheskogo opisaníìa (Moskva: Kniga)
- rad
- Rules for archival description (Ottawa: Bureau of Canadian Archivists)
- rak
- Regeln für die alphabetische Katalogisierung (Wiesbaden: Reichert)
- rakddb
- Ansetzungsform gemaess der RAK - Anwendung Der Deutschen Bibliothek
- rakwb
- Regeln für die alphabetische Katalogisierung an wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken (Berlin: Deutsches Bibliotheksinstitut)
- -rcaa2
- Règles de catalogage anglo-américaines. 2e édition (Montréal: ASTED) [Prior to the implementation of a technique for identifying editions and translations of description convention sources, this code was used for the French edition of AACR2]
- rda
- Resource description and access (Chicago, IL: American Library Association)
- rdc
- Reglas de catalogación (Madrid: Dirección General del Libro, Archivos y Bibliotecas)
- rica
- Regole italiane di catalogazione per autori (Roma: Istituto central per il catalogo unico delle biblioteche italiane e per le informazioni bibliografiche)
- rna
- Regeln zur Erschließung von Nachlässen und Autographen (RNA)
- rpk
- Rossiiskiie pravila katalogizatsii (Moskva: Rossiiskaíà Gosudarstvennaíà Biblioteka)
- sscde
- SCIS standards for cataloguing and data entry
(Education Services Australia Ltd.)
- vd16
- Formalerschliessung nach dem Verzeichnis der Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts (VD 16)
- vd17
- Formalerschliessung nach dem Verzeichnis der Drucke des 17. Jahrhunderts (VD 17)
- -yuppiak
- USE ppiak
Description Convention Source Code Usage in MARC and MODS
MARC 21 Formats and Fields
- Bibliographic records
- 040 $e (Cataloging Source / Description conventions)
- Authority records
- 040 $e (Cataloging Source / Description conventions)
MODS Elements
- mods: recordInfo / descriptionStandard