Handbook for the Machine-Readable Cataloging Format of Ancient Chinese Documents

Author: Editor: National Library of China
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Publishing Date: 2001-10-01
Features: Based on the fundamental principles of a series of national standards and relevant literature, this manual summarizes past practical experience and selects fields and subfields suitable for Chinese ancient books. It provides detailed descriptions of related content and application examples. The manual includes all possible fields, subfields, and types of ancient books that may be used in machine-readable catalogs of ancient books. Due to the diversity and complexity of ancient books in China, the manual also proposes general format annotations and examples of major types of ancient books. Ancient book collection units or catalogers can formulate more detailed processing rules for machine-readable catalog data of ancient books based on the principles of this book.