883 Metadata Provenance

Field definition and scope:

Field 883 is used to provide information about the provenance of metadata in data fields in the record. Field 883 contains a link to the field to which it pertains.

Field 883 is repeatable.

Guidelines for applying content designators:

For indicator and subfield code definitions and examples, and designator repeatability, see table below:

Position	Description	Repeatability
Field 883	Metadata Provenance	R
Indicator:
First	Method of assignment
#	No information provided/not applicable
0	Fully machine-generated
1	Partially machine-generated
2	Not machine-generated

Second	Undefined; contains a blank

Subfield code:
$a	Creation process	NR
$c	Confidence value	NR
$d	Creation date	NR
$q	Assigning or generating agency	NR
$x	Validity end date	NR
$u	Uniform Resource Identifier	NR
$w	Bibliographic record control number	R
$0	Authority record control number or standard number	R
$1	Real World Object URI	R
$8	Field link and sequence number	R

Content designator history:

Field 883 - Machine-generated Metadata Provenance [new, 2012]

Field 883 - Machine-generated Metadata Provenance [renamed, 2020]: Field 883 was renamed to allow the recording of non-machine-generated content.

First Indicator - Method of machine assignment [renamed, 2020]

Value 2 - Not machine-generated [new, 2020]

Subfield $a - Generation process [renamed, 2020]

Subfield $d - Generation date [renamed, 2020]

Subfield $q - Generation agency [renamed, 2020]

Subfield $1 - Real World Object URI [new, 2017]