WorldCat Validation release notes, May 2024

Cartographic Data Source Codes

The following source codes have been added to the Cartographic Data Source Codes list for usage in appropriate fields and elements.

• actmapi – ACTMapi (Office of the Surveyor-General and Land Information (ACT Government)) (https://www.actmapi.act.gov.au/) 
• geonoma – Geographic names data (Landgate (Western Australia Government)) (https://www.landgate.wa.gov.au/locat...ic-names-data/) 
• platas – Placenames Tasmania (Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania) (https://www.placenames.tas.gov.au/#p0)

Citation Scheme Source Codes

The following source codes have been added to the Citation Scheme Source Codes list for usage in appropriate fields and elements.

• ausad – Australian author-date system (Digital Transformation Agency, Australian Public Service Commission) (https://www.stylemanual.gov.au/refer...on/author-date) 
• ausglc – Australian guide to legal citation (Melbourne University Law Review Association and Melbourne Journal of International Law) (https://law.unimelb.edu.au/mulr/aglc) 

Classification Scheme Source Codes

The following source codes have been added to the Classification Scheme Source Codes list for usage in appropriate fields and elements.

• agift – Australian Governments’ interactive functions thesaurus (AGIFT) (National Archives of Australia) (https://demo.vocabs.ardc.edu.au/viewById/652) 
• dfg – DFG-Fachsystematik (Bonn: DFG)

Content Advice Classification Source Codes

• The following source code has been added to the Content Advice Classification Source Codes list for usage in appropriate fields and elements.
• auscla – Australian classification (Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts) (https://www.classification.gov.au/)

MARC Code List for Relators

The following relator has been added to the MARC Code List for Relators list for usage in appropriate fields and elements.

• gdv [Game developer] – A person or organization who researches, designs, implements or tests video games, computer games, virtual reality (VR) games, etc.

Name and Title Authority Source Codes

The following source code has been added to the Name and Title Authority Source Codes list for usage in appropriate fields and elements.

• anb – Australian national bibliographic database (Canberra: National Library of Australia) (https://trove.nla.gov.au/about-austr...-database-anbd)

Occupation Term Source Codes  

The following source code has been added to the Occupation Term Source Codes list for usage in appropriate fields and elements.

• anzsco – ANZSCO - Australian and New Zealand standard classification of occupations (Australian Bureau of Statistics; StatsNZ) (https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/cl...latest-release) 

Standard Identifier Source Codes

The following source codes have been added to the Standard Identifier Source Codes list for usage in appropriate fields and elements.

• ausbn – Australian business number (ABN) (Australian Securities & Investments Commission) (https://asic.gov.au/for-business/reg...siness-number/) 
• auscn – Australian company number (ACN) (Australian Securities & Investments Commission) (https://asic.gov.au/for-business/reg...mpany-numbers/) 
• ausnzst – Australian/New Zealand standards (Standards Australia) (https://www.safemaster.net.au/resour...20regulations.) 
• ausrn – Australian registered body number (ABRN) (Australian Securities & Investments Commission) (https://asic.gov.au/for-business/reg...ralian-bodies/) 
• ausst – Australian standards (Standards Australia) (https://www.standards.org.au/) 
• bhb – Bibliography of the Hebrew book (National Library of Israel) (https://www.nli.org.il/en/research-a...atalogs#hebrew) 
• conccc – Congress.gov congressional committee codes (https://www.congress.gov/help/field-...s/action-codes) 
• elsst – ELSST thesaurus - European language social science thesaurus (Bergen, Norway: Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives) (https://www.cessda.eu/Tools/ELSST-Thesaurus) 
• oalex – OpenAlex (https://openalex.org/) 

Subject Heading and Term Source Codes

The following source codes have been added to the Subject Heading and Term Source Codes list for usage in appropriate fields and elements.

• ahecc – Australian harmonized export commodity classification (AHECC) (Australian Bureau of Statistics) (https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/cl...latest-release) 
• anzsic – Australian and New Zealand standard industrial classification (ANZSIC) (Australian Bureau of Statistics) (https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/cl...latest-release) 
• anzsoc – Australian and New Zealand standard offence classification (ANZSOC) (Australian Bureau of Statistics) (https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/cl...on-anzsoc/2023) 
• anzsrc – Australian and New Zealand research classification (ANZSRC) (Australian Bureau of Statistics) (https://www.mbie.govt.nz/science-and...d-data/anzsrc/) 
• ascdc – Australian standard classification of drugs of concern (Australian Bureau of Statistics) (https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/cl...s-concern/2011) 
• asced – Australian standard classification of education (ASCED) (Australian Bureau of Statistics) (https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/cl...latest-release) 
• fcb – Functional classification of buildings (Australian Bureau of Statistics) (https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/cl...latest-release) 
• leaubsh – American University of Beirut subject headings
• lst – Legislative subject terms (Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service) (https://www.congress.gov/browse/legi...117th-congress) 
• pana – Pan-American authorities (University of Florida & University of Texas at Austin) (https://guides.uflib.ufl.edu/pana/overview) 
• sesca – Standard economic sector classifications of Australia (SESCA) (Australian Bureau of Statistics) (https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/cl...latest-release) 
• skish – Saskatchewan Indigenous subject headings (Saskatchewan Libraries) (https://mlb.libguides.com/SK_ISH)

Taxonomic Classification Source Codes

The following source codes have been added to the Taxonomic Classification Source Codes list for usage in appropriate fields and elements.

• afd – Australian faunal directory (AFD) (Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water) (https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/home) 
• amz – Australian marine zooplankton: a taxonomic guide and atlas (Institute for Maine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania) (https://www.imas.utas.edu.au/zooplankton) 
• aunsl – Australian national species list (Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria) (https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/)