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ISO 8459-1:1988
STANDARDS AUSTRALIA
1 The Crescent,
Homebush NSW 2140 Australia
STANDARDS NEW ZEALAND
Level 10, Standards House,
155 The Terrace,
Wellington 6001 New Zealand
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PREFACE
This Standard was prepared by the Joint Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand Committee
IT/19, Computer Applications in Information and Documentation.
This Standard is identical with, and has been reproduced from, ISO 8459-1:1988, Documentation—
Bibliographic data element directory, Part 1: Interloan applications .
The objective of this Standard is to provide the library community with a complete data element
directory for bibliographic use in order to support the transmission of information required for new
interloan systems in Australia and New Zealand.
Users of this Standard are advised by Standards Australia and Standards New Zealand, under
arrangements made with ISO and IEC, as well as certain other Standards organizations, that the
number of this Standard is not reproduced on each page; its identity is shown only on the cover,
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CONTENTS
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0 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1 Scope and field of application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
3 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
4 Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
5 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
6 Structured order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
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NOTES
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Part 1:
Interloan applications
Data are interchanged primarily for the purpose of starting This part of ISO 8459 specifies and describes the data
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or supporting a process. In order to transmit information elements required in the interchange of data between
required to support a process, the various elements of interlending institutions. It also identifies messages and
data in the interchanged messages must be fully their data elements which are used in interloan
understandable to the partners concerned. transactions.
This part of ISO 8459 describes, in the form of a It is intended for messages commun icated both by
directory, the data elements used to support bibliographic preprinted forms having the specified data element names
processes or applications. In addition, it provides as headings and by automated interchange processes.
illustrations of the relationships between data elements
and examples of their practical usage. The structuring of the data elements into messages falls
outside the scope of this part of ISO 8459.
The data elements that may occur in an interloan
transaction are presented in four main clauses as follows. 2 References
a) A data element directory (clause 4); code values ISO 639, Code for the representation of names of
and descriptions for message types (A.1), date types languages.
(A.2) and status reports (A.3) are also given in annex
A which forms an integral part of this part of ISO ISO 2108, Documentation — International standard book
8459. numbering (ISBN).
b) A data element index (clause 5) which lists the ISO 2709, Documentation — Format for bibliographic
names, keywords and synonyms for data elements, information interchange on magnetic tape.
data element groups and data element values,
including names assigned to specific messages, date ISO 3297, Documentation — International standard serial
types and status reports. numbering (ISSN).
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