Korean National Bibliography (Daehanmingung gukgaseoji)
Title | Korean National Bibliography (Daehanmingung gukgaseoji) |
Web site address | https://librarian.nl.go.kr/LI/contents/L10507010000.do |
Start date | Began 1963 |
Period covered | 1945- now |
Current size | Over 4 million records |
Media covered | Digital, online, and printed books or serials, maps, printed music, audio, video grey literature including thesis and government publications, accessible resources |
General selection criteria | – Works in various media published in South Korea – Works about Korea in various media published abroad |
Selection criteria for digital resources | In the case of text and audio-visual resources, all resources collected by legal deposit shall be included. |
Exclusions policies applied | Individual articles in serials |
Primary organisation responsible for national bibliographic control | National Library of Korea |
Web site address of national bibliographic agency | https://www.nl.go.kr (Korean) https://www.nl.go.kr/EN/ (English) |
Co-operative structures or relationships supporting the production of the national bibliography | In addition to NLK’s catalogue, collection lists for incorporation into the national bibliography are provided by the Korea Education and Research Information Service (KERIS) and the National Library for the Disabled. |
Single integrated or multiple categorised bibliographies | Single integrated dataset, but after 2021 multiple categorised bibliographies by media |
Sources of bibliographic metadata used to produce national bibliography | After checking for duplication between metadata created in house and cooperative institutions, only unique metadata is included in the national bibliography. |
Relationship to national legal deposit legislation or voluntary deposit arrangements | We have legal deposits as national libraries, and most of these are included in the national bibliography unless otherwise excluded. |
Relationship to national Cataloguing in Publication (CIP) programme | National bibliography has operated without CIP involvement. (Korean CIP program was abolished in 2020). |
Form of publication used for the national bibliography | – Web catalogue: All national bibliographic data can be searched and downloaded individually – File : Since 2021, national bibliography has been also provided as a dataset file, consisting of 41 self-selected metadata elements. |
Online access options | Web access |
Formats & media available for delivery of record sets from the national bibliography | – Web catalogue: Korean MARC or MODS (Individual bibliographic data) – File : EXCEL, CSV, JSON (Dataset by Year, by Type) |
Frequency of service updates | Annual |
Target audiences for services | researchers, libraries, the public |
Pricing policy for national bibliographic services | Free |
Availability of metadata for re-use | All national bibliographic metadata released into the public domain without restriction |
Metadata formats | MARC, MODS(limited to digital resources for which NLK has created metadata) |
Cataloguing code | KCR4 (Korean Cataloguing Rules) |
Levels of description offered | Full |
Classification | KDC(Korean Decimal Classification), DDC |
Subject heading scheme or thesaurus | NLKSH(Nation Library of Korea Subject heading) |
Name authority standards or Name authority file | Korean Authority File |
Is NBA affiliated to IFLA Bibliography Section? | The agency has representatives in ISBD review group. |
Date information submitted | 2023/02/01 |
Information supplied by | MISO LEE Nation Library of Korea Metadata & Sustainable Access Division |
Contact email | miso0407@korea.kr |