UNIMARC Formats and Updates

Authorities Format

• UNIMARC Manual – Authorities Format, online ed. (2023- )
• UNIMARC Manual – Authorities Format, 3rd ed., Updates (2012-2022)
• UNIMARC Manual – Authorities Format, 3rd ed. (2009)
• UNIMARC Manual – Authorities Format, 2nd revised and enlarged ed. (2001)

Bibliographic Format

• UNIMARC Manual – Bibliographic Format, online ed. (2023- )
• UNIMARC Manual – Bibliographic Format, 3rd ed., Updates (2012-2022)
• UNIMARC Manual – Bibliographic Format, 3rd ed. (2008)

Classification Format

• Concise UNIMARC Classification Format (2000)
• UNIMARC Classification Format (invitation for worldwide review, 2000)

Holdings Format

• UNIMARC Manual – Holdings Format (2007)
• UNIMARC Holdings List of Changes 2007 (2007 corrections)

UNIMARC Vocabularies

• IFLA Namespaces

UNIMARC Guidelines

• Guidelines no 1.: Guidelines for Using UNIMARC for Component Parts (1999)
• Guidelines no 2.: Guidelines for Using UNIMARC for Microforms (1999)
• Guidelines no 3.: Guidelines for Using UNIMARC for Older Monographic Publications (Antiquarian) (1998)
• Guidelines no 4.: UNIMARC Minimal Level Record (1999)
• Guidelines no 5.: Multi-level Description: Encoding Options for UNIMARC (1999)
• Guidelines no 6.: Electronic Resources (2000)
• Guidelines no 7.: Music (2005)
• Guidelines no 8.: Serials and Other Continuing Resources (2006)
• Guidelines no 9.: Manuscripts (2014)
• Guidelines no 10.: Archival Materials (2023)

UNIMARC Translations

• Italian: UNIMARC Concise Bibliographic Format (Italiano)
• Português: UNIMARC Concise Bibliographic Format (Versão abreviada da Edição de 2008) (2010)
• French: Manuel UNIMARC. Format bibliographique (5e édition) (2007), Online with updates
• French: Manuel UNIMARC Format des notices d’autorité, 2e édition revue et augmentée. (2004), Online with updates

UNIMARC Related Resources

STANDARDS AND INSTITUTIONS

• Comité français UNIMARC (CfU)
• National RUSMARC Service
• Department of Information Retrieval Languages and Subject Indexing the National Library of Russia (RUSMARC Expert Council)
• MARC Standards / Library of Congress Network Development and MARC Standards Office
• ALCTS/LITA Metadata Standards Committee (successor of the Machine-Readable Bibliographic Information (MARBI) Committee, discontinued in 2013)
• Canadian Committee on Metadata Exchange (formerly Canadian Committee on MARC)
• OCLC Bibliographic Formats and Standards
• BIC Library Metadata Group (UK Committee on MARC)
• Institute of Information Science (IZUM) – COMARC Standards

UNIMARC BIBLIOGRAPHY

• UNIMARC Bibliography, covering forty years (1976-2016). Dec. 2016.

RECOMMENDATIONS

• Mandatory Data Elements for Internationally Shared Resource Authority Records (Report of the IFLA UBCIM Working Group on Minimal Level Authority Records and ISADN, 1999)

MAPPINGS

• User Controlled Generic MARC Converter (USEMARCON) (A generic toolkit for ISO 2709 compatible MARC formats to enable libraries to create rules-based systems to convert records between national MARC formats through UNIMARC. It was completed in 1997, and funded by the EU’s Telematics Applications Programme (DGXIII-E).  The original version of the software was further developed and adapted by Ere Maijala, of the National Library of Finland. Also available: USEMARCON page).
• Mapping Dublin Core to UNIMARC (Michael Day. UKOLN, 1997)
• Mappatura Dublin Core/UNIMARC (Preparata dall’Istituto centrale per il catalogo unico delle biblioteche italiane, 2000)
• UNIMARC to MARC 21 Conversion Specifications. Version 3.0 (August 2001) (Prepared for the Network Development and MARC Standards Office Library of Congress)
• EAD (Encoded Archival Description) Tag Library (Version 2002) Society of American Archivists, traduit de l’anglais par le groupe AFNOR CG46/CN357/GE3. 2004. [includes correspondence table for data elements between EAD and UNIMARC, p. 249]
• UNIMARC/Dublin Core Mapping approved by the Permanent UNIMARC Committee, 2004-03-05. – Version 1.0 [inactive, link of Internet Archive, snapshot 28.8.2012]

UNIMARC & XML

• BiblioML: XML for UNIMARC Bibliographic Records (Robin Cover. Cover Pages. Technology Reports, 2000.   See downloads at BiblioML)
• The UNIMARC and MARC21 manual in XML: automating validation, explanation and help systems for bibliographic records (Developed by BookMARC for the IFLA UNIMARC Core Activity, 2004)