OLAC Best Practice for language of representative expression
Prerecording
Recording
Recording an unstructured description
Recording an unstructured description
Record original language in a free text note when useful for user tasks, regardless of whether it is the language of the representative expression. (Use field 500 if using MARC21.)
Recording a structured description
Recording an identifier
Recording an identifier
Always provide the original language when that information is known, regardless of whether it is the language of the representative expression. (Use field 041 $h if using MARC21.)
Recording an IRI
View as Relationship Example
View in Context Example
Document Date: 2026/02/06
Document: https://access.rdatoolkit.org/en-US_ala-8364ad08-2431-306c-b10c-ecc659d5a666