National Library of New Zealand Policy Statements for: note on metadata work

Record only where:

• instructed; or
• an unstructured description is not an option for a more specific element; or
• the element does not allow for the unstructured description value we wish to record.

See NLNZ guidance.

Websites: Record this element:

• to identify the archived version of the website used as the basis of the metadata description set.

See NLNZ guidance.

All other successive resources: Record this element:

• to identify the issue used as the basis of the metadata description set, and
• to identify the latest issue used in preparing the metadata description set.

See NLNZ guidance.

NACO authority work: Multiple pseudonyms: Record this element if a person has three or more authorised access points based on three or more values of preferred name of person. Do not record this element if a person does not wish their multiple identities to be linked.

Record as: unstructured description.

Apply. See NLNZ guidance.