MARC formats, standard numbers

Manuals of MARC formats, standard numbers and standarisation agencies in the music-bibliographic field.

MARC formats

UNIMARC Concise Bibliographic Format (2008)

Bibliographic description format, maintained by IFLA. For the updates see also UNIMARC Bibliographic, 3rd edition: UPDATES 2012

MARC21

Bibliographic description format, used by the Library of Congress and many other systems.

UNIMARC Guidelines No.7: Music

Guidelines for the use of the UNIMARC format for music materials.

IFLA UNICMARC strategic programme

IFLA activities on the UNIMARC format.

Musical forms

SBN and UNIMARC tables of codes for musical forms, with multilingual terminology.

OMedium of performance

SBN and UNIMARC tables of codes for medium of performance: voices, instruments, other performers, with multilingual terminology.

Relator codes

Italian translation of the UNIMARC table of codes defininig the relation between documents and names.

Standard numbers, standardisation agencies

ISMN

Website of the Italian agency for the International Standard Music Number

ISWC

Website of the international agency for the International Standard Work Code.

ISBN

SWebsite of the Italian agency for the International Standard Book Number.

DOI

Website of the foundation for the Digital Object Identifier.