LC-PCC policy statements for variant access point for place
Prerecording
Prerecording
LC/PCC practice: See the Metadata Guidance documentation: Place: variant access point for place.
Recording
Recording an unstructured description
Format of base variant access points for plsce
Additional elements and designations in variant access points for place
Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option. Make additions to a variant access point when needed to break a conflict with an authorized access point in another record, or with another variant access point in the same record, or based on cataloger's judgment. For Choice of Larger Place, see the Metadata Guidance documentation for more detail.
Recording an identifier
Recording an IRI
Document Date: 2026/08/17
Document: https://access.rdatoolkit.org/en-US_ala-31514b6c-ec56-3ed3-b49d-926a357ab9f4