Abstract & revision notes

Edit Bibliographic Records

Abstract

Editing basics and techniques and instructions for inserting diacritics.

Revision history

Last updated: May 2007

Revision History
Date Section title Description of changes
May 2006

1. Edit record: basics

Minor updates.

 

5. Insert diacritics and special characters

Revised to update list of bar syntax character codes to reflect changes in character names and to add newly supported characters.

November 2006

1. Edit record: basics

Minor updates.

 

2. Editing techniques, template view

Added information on guided editing for fields 541 and 583, commonly used when cataloging archival materials.

December 2006

1. Edit record: basics

Updated to add information about display of WorldCat records that contain non-Latin scripts..

May 2007

4. Validate record

Revised to document change in default validation level from None to Structure.


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