Swiss Book
| Title | Current title: Das Schweizer Buch = Le Livre Suisse = Il Libro svizzro = Il Cudesch svizzer = The Swiss Book |
| Web site address | Description and access possibilities |
| Start date | 1871 |
| Period covered | 1871 |
| Current size | 223731 (2001-) |
| Media covered | Digital only offline, Printed books, serials, maps, printed music (nr. 16), mixed materials, video, no audio |
| General selection criteria | Includes ‘national’ material created throughout the world |
| Selection criteria for digital resources | Only offline documents (-> will be changed in ????) |
| Exclusions policies applied | Online documents |
| Primary organisation responsible for national bibliographic control | Swiss National Library ((NL)1901- |
| Web site address of national bibliographic agency | National Bibliographic Agency |
| Co-operative structures or relationships supporting the production of the national bibliography | ISSN Centre (= part of the NL) |
| Single integrated or multiple categorised bibliographies | BSG, Bibliographie zur Schweizergeschichte (Swiss history bibliography) |
| Sources of bibliographic metadata used to produce national bibliography | Data created in-house (extract from the catalogue Helveticat) |
| Relationship to national legal deposit legislation or voluntary deposit arrangements | Agreement with the Schweizer Buchhändler- und Verleger-Verband |
| Relationship to national Cataloguing in Publication (CIP) programme | without CIP programme |
| Media & format options | PDF (static version)or via « The Swiss book-interface » (dynamic version) |
| Access options to national bibliographic metadata | Web interface, Z39.50 |
| Metadata enhancements offered via online services | Not yet |
| Web 2.0 services offered | Not envisaged |
| Frequency of service updates | Bimonthly, (for the dynamic version also annual and a certain period) |
| Target audiences for services | Libraries, booksellers and editors, all web users |
| Uses made of services offered | Acquisition help, literature search, used also as new acquisition list |
| Pricing policy for national bibliographic services | Cost-free |
| Availability of metadata for re-use | Limited metadata export is possible |
| Metadata formats | MARC21 |
| Cataloguing code | AACR2 |
| Levels of description offered | AACR2 |
| Subject standards | SWD |
| Name authority standards | AACR2 |
| Is NBA affiliated to IFLA SC? | yes |
Last update: 5 October 2012