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Resource Description & Access (RDA) Metadata Guidance Documentation: Corporate Bodies

Narrative MGD

MG: Corporate Bodies (PDF, 353 KB)

1:1 MGDs

MG: Corporate Body: Additional elements and designations in authorized access point for corporate body (PDF, 147 KB)

MG: Corporate Body: Additional elements and designations in authorized access point for corporate body: Individual instance of an ongoing conference (PDF, 138 KB)

MG: Corporate Body: Additional elements and designations in authorized access point for corporate body: Initialisms and acronyms (PDF, 103 KB)

MG: Corporate Body: Additional elements and designations in authorized access point for corporate body: Place (PDF, 109 KB)

MG: Corporate Body: Additional elements and designations in authorized access point for corporate body: Ships (PDF, 136 KB)

MG: Corporate Body: Authorized access point for corporate body: Body whose name implies administrative subordination (PDF, 137 KB)

MG: Corporate Body: Authorized access point for corporate body: Heads of state, heads of government, etc. (PDF, 127 KB)

MG: Corporate Body: Name of corporate body (PDF, 124 KB)

MG: Corporate Body: Non-governmental body with name that includes the entire name of the higher or related body (PDF, 234 KB)

MG: Corporate Body: Preferred name of corporate body: Minor changes of name (PDF, 114 KB)

MG: Corporate Body: Preferred name of corporate body: Proposed bodies (PDF, 114 KB)

MG: Corporate Body: Related corporate body of corporate body (PDF, 149 KB)

MG: Corporate Body: Variant access point for corporate body: Base variant access point (PDF, 106 KB)

String Encoding Scheme MGDs

MG: SES: Access point for Corporate Body (PDF, 856 KB)

MG: SES Variant access point for Corporate Body (PDF, 602 KB)

Other MGDs

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Last Updated: 03/19/2025