Finnish National Bibliography
| Title | The Finnish National Bibliography (Fennica) The Finnish National Discography (Viola) |
| Web site address | Fennica – The Finnish National Bibliography |
| Start date | Began 1877 (printed) |
| Period covered | 1488 to date |
| Current size | 1,073,123 (Fennica) 1,087,438 (Viola) |
| Media covered | Printed and electronic monographs and serials, maps, multimedia, sound recordings and sheet music, ephemera as collection level description, web pages as collection level descriptions |
| General selection criteria | Includes material published in Finland and also publications by Finnish authors published abroad and publications about Finland. |
| Selection criteria for digital resources | Same criteria as for printed resources |
| Exclusions policies applied | Ephemera as individual records and videos |
| Primary organisation responsible for national bibliographic control | The National Library of Finland |
| Web site address of national bibliographic agency | https://www.kansalliskirjasto.fi/en/node/1748 |
| Co-operative structures or relationships supporting the production of the national bibliography | Kirjastopalvelu (sells full records and library supplies for public libraries), ISBN, ISMN, ISSN agencies. Kirjavälitys (a logistic service provider for books) provides pre cataloguing. . |
| Single integrated or multiple categorised bibliographies | Separate collections for National Bibliography Fennica and National Discography Viola |
| Sources of bibliographic metadata used to produce national bibliography | Data is created in-house in co-operation with Kirjastopalvelu and pre publication metadata received from Kirjavälitys |
| Relationship to national legal deposit legislation or voluntary deposit arrangements | Materials are received under the Act on Collecting and Preserving Cultural Materials 1433/2007 (available in Finnish and Swedish). |
| Relationship to national Cataloguing in Publication (CIP) programme | CIP programme is co-ordinated by the NBA and the pre publication records are included in national bibliographic services. |
| Form of publication used for the national bibliography | The National Library Search |
| Access options to national bibliographic metadata | Web catalogue, OAI-PMH, REST, Linked Data, Z39.50 and SRU |
| Online access options | data.nationallibrary.fi |
| Formats & media available for delivery of record sets from the national bibliography | MARC 21, RDF linked data, MARCXML, CSV |
| Metadata enhancements offered via online services | Book covers and jackets |
| Web 2.0 services offered | Not yet offered |
| Frequency of service updates | Continuously updated |
| Target audiences for services | Academic/public libraries, members of the public, book trade, copyright organizations |
| Uses made of services offered | Acquisition/selection, derived cataloguing, retrospective conversion, statistical enquiries about national output |
| Pricing policy for national bibliographic services | Free basis |
| Under what conditions may the metadata be re-used for other products? | CC0 licence |
| Metadata formats | MARC21, Dublin Core, ONIX, MARCXML |
| Cataloguing rules or code | RDA from 2016 |
| Levels of description offered | National bibliographic level |
| Subject standards: Classification | UDC, Finnish Public Libraries Classification |
| Subject standards: Subject heading scheme or thesaurus | General Finnish Ontology (YSO), Metadata thesaurus, Finnish Genre and Form Vocabulary |
| Name authority standards | RDA |
| Is NBA affiliated to IFLA SC? | Yes |
| Date information submitted | 2021-08-24 |
| Information supplied by | Katri Kananen / Satu Niininen |