Adding Coordinates to Authority Records
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Adding Coordinates to Authority Records


The proposal to add coordinates to authority records passed.

MARC PROPOSAL NO. 2006-06 Definition of field 034 for geographic coordinates in the MARC 21 Authority Format.

This paper proposes the addition of field 034 to authority records for geographic coordinates associated with places. This field would eventually form the basis for coordinates-based retrieval of all cataloged records containing those geographic terms.
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