Record sets for testing limited ISBD punctuation

Background

The Library of Congress, the National Library of Medicine, and OCLC, have each compiled a set of test records available for downloading and testing from this site. The records may be used by any institution or vendor for evaluating the impact of the following two recommendations of the PCC ISBD and MARC Task Group report [PDF 108 MB], page 1:

1. Removal of terminal periods from bibliographic records
2. Removal of separating punctuation corresponding to MARC 21 coding from bibliographic records

Please see the Frequently Asked Questions and the test announcement issued February 6, 2018 (Word, 25 KB) for further information about the test.

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• LC test records. Record selection and modification specifications. [Word, 14 KB]
  • EditedMarcRecordSet20171016.mrc [MARC format, 371 KB]. 277 record sample set without punctuation.

 

• NLM test records. Record selection and modification specifications. [Word, 12 KB]

• TestBibsWithIsbdPunctuation.mrc [MARC format, 308 KB]. This file contains 218 bib records with ISBD punctuation from NLM's Test ILS. The records have not been modified to remove any punctuation.
• TestBibsWithIsbdPunctuationRemoved.mrc [MARC format, 355 KB]. This file contains 253 bib records, including the same 218 records in the 1st file but with some ISBD punctuation removed and 35 records newly created without some ISBD punctuation in the Test ILS.

 

• OCLC test records. Record selection and modification specifications. [Word, 13 KB]

• npsample.mrc [MARC File format, 361 KB]. There are 250 records in this file with terminal punctuation and separating punctuation corresponding to MARC 21 coding removed. Leader/18 (Desc in OCLC) has been coded c (ISBD punctuation omitted) and in the case of non-ISBD punctuation, with new code n (Non-ISBD punctuation omitted).