Bibliographic record

A bibliographic record is a card which describes an object (document) handled in a library, traditional or numerical: delivers, Fascicule, Article etc It comprises a whole of indications making it possible to identify it, to locate it summarily or to describe it.

Use

Bibliographical databases

Free access on Internet

In the Protocol OAI-PMH (Open Files Initiative - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting), the bibliographic record is, in format UNIMARC, considered as one item, i.e. it contains or generates Métadonnée S for protocol OAI, in the only condition which a single identifier, built according to the recommendations of the Open File Initiative, can be allotted to item in the base which contains it.

Standardization

There exists:

an international standard directed cataloguing ISO 690 towards the documents, paper, or electronic, which gave directed AFNOR NF Z 44-005-2 edition.
a international Standard: ISO 2709
Two booklets of Documentation devoted to the Bibliographical description of the monographs (printed text), which was revised in April 2005, and are available near AFNOR: FD Z44-050 and FD Z44-073.

See too

External bond

Recommendations on the bibliographic records, of the National library of France
protocol OAI and its uses in library

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