OLAC Best Practice for date of work

Prerecording

Recording

Treaties

Recording an unstructured description

Recording an unstructured description

Record when readily available.

Recording a structured description

Recording a structured description

Record when readily available , even when it is not needed to differentiate a work from another work with the same title or from an agent.

Recording an identifier

Recording an IRI

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Document Date: 2026/02/06
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