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General Rules for Contributions

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Subject Cataloging Manual, H 405-Establishing Certain Entities in the Name or Subject Authority File

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PCC Post RDA Test Guidelines

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PCC Guidelines for the Application of Relationship Designators in NACO Authority Records

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Authority File Comparison Rules (NAC normalization)

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Romanization

Language	Writing System	Romanization Table
Arabic	Arabic alphabet	ISO 233-2:1993 Information and Documentation -- Arabic characters into Latin characters -- Part 2: Arabic language -- Simplified transliteration
Armenian	Armenian alphabet	ISO 9985:1996 Information and Documentation -- Transliteration of Armenian characters into Latin characters
Assamese	Bengali alphasyllabary	ISO 15919:2001 Information and Documentation -- Transliteration of Devanagari and related Indic scripts into Latin characters
Bengali	Bengali alphasyllabary	ISO 15919:2001 Information and Documentation -- Transliteration of Devanagari and related Indic scripts into Latin characters
Belarusian	Cyrillic alphabet	ISO 9:1995 Information and Documentation -- Transliteration of Cyrillic characters into Latin characters -- Slavic and non-Slavic languages
Bulgarian	Cyrillic alphabet	ISO 9:1995 Information and Documentation -- Transliteration of Cyrillic characters into Latin characters -- Slavic and non-Slavic languages
Chinese	Chinese characters	ISO 7098:2015 Information and Documentation -- Romanization of Chinese
Georgian	Georgian alphabet	ISO 9984:1996 Information and Documentation -- Transliteration of Georgian characters into Latin characters
Gujarati	Gujarati alphasyllabary	ISO 15919:2001 Information and Documentation -- Transliteration of Devanagari and related Indic scripts into Latin characters
Hebrew	Hebrew characters	ISO 259-2:1994 Documentation -- Transliteration of Hebrew characters into Latin characters -- Part 2: Simplified transliteration
Hindi	Devanagari alphasyllabary	ISO 15919:2001 Information and Documentation -- Transliteration of Devanagari and related Indic scripts into Latin characters
Inuktitut	Canadian Aboriginal syllabics	ALA-LC 2011 Inuktitut romanization table
Kannada	Kannada alphasyllabary	ISO 15919:2001 Information and Documentation -- Transliteration of Devanagari and related Indic scripts into Latin characters
Slavic and non-Slavic Languages	Cyrillic alphabet	ISO 9:1995 Information and Documentation -- Transliteration of Cyrillic characters into Latin characters -- Slavic and non-Slavic languages
Macedonian	Cyrillic alphabet	ISO 9:1995 Information and Documentation -- Transliteration of Cyrillic characters into Latin characters -- Slavic and non-Slavic languages
Malayalam	Malayalam alphasyllabary	ISO 15919:2001 Information and Documentation -- Transliteration of Devanagari and related Indic scripts into Latin characters
Marathi	Devanagari alphasyllabary	ISO 15919:2001 Information and Documentation -- Transliteration of Devanagari and related Indic scripts into Latin characters
Mongolian	Cyrillic alphabet	ISO 9:1995 Information and Documentation -- Transliteration of Cyrillic characters into Latin characters -- Slavic and non-Slavic languages
Nepali	Devanagari alphasyllabary	ISO 15919:2001 Information and Documentation -- Transliteration of Devanagari and related Indic scripts into Latin characters
Oriya (odia)	Odia alphasyllabary	ISO 15919:2001 Information and Documentation -- Transliteration of Devanagari and related Indic scripts into Latin characters
Pali	Various including Bengali, Burmese, Devanagari, Sinhalese and Thai alphasyllabary	ISO 15919:2001 Information and Documentation -- Transliteration of Devanagari and related Indic scripts into Latin characters
Persian	Persian alphabet	ISO 233-3:1999 Information and Documentation -- Transliteration of Arabic characters into Latin characters -- Part 3: Persian language -- Simplified transliteration
Russian	Cyrillic alphabet	ISO 9:1995 Information and Documentation -- Transliteration of Cyrillic characters into Latin characters -- Slavic and non-Slavic languages
Sanskrit, Prakrit	Devanagari alphasyllabary	ISO 15919:2001 Information and Documentation -- Transliteration of Devanagari and related Indic scripts into Latin characters
Serbian	Cyrillic alphabet	ISO 9:1995 Information and Documentation -- Transliteration of Cyrillic characters into Latin characters -- Slavic and non-Slavic languages
Tajiki	Cyrillic alphabet	ISO 9:1995 Information and Documentation -- Transliteration of Cyrillic characters into Latin characters -- Slavic and non-Slavic languages
Tamil	Tamil alphasyllabary	ISO 15919:2001 Information and Documentation -- Transliteration of Devanagari and related Indic scripts into Latin characters
Telugu	Telugu alphasyllabary	ISO 15919:2001 Information and Documentation -- Transliteration of Devanagari and related Indic scripts into Latin characters
Thai	Thai alphasyllabary	ISO 11940:1998 Information and Documentation -- Transliteration of Thai (à confirmer)
Ukrainian	Cyrillic alphabet	ISO 9:1995 Information and Documentation -- Transliteration of Cyrillic characters into Latin characters -- Slavic and non-Slavic languages
Yiddish	Hebrew alphabet	ISO 259-2:1994 Documentation -- Transliteration of Hebrew characters into Latin characters -- Part 2: Simplified transliteration

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Non-exhaustive List of Verifications to Make to an Existing Record

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General Information

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Non-exhaustive List of Qualifiers

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Procedures for Duplicates

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Useful External Resources

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