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 | [email protected] |