PART I. Measuring the Quality of a Record

• Completeness
  • Parallel Vernacular Field
  • Co-occurring fields
• Consistency
  • Corresponding Value
• Correctness
  • Non-Co-occurring Data
  • Precedence of Codes
  • Relationship between Romanized data and Vernacular Data
  • Indicators for Chinese Names
  • Ending Punctuation

PART II. Ensuring Correctness of Each MARC-Field

• Fixed Fields (008)
  • Illus (008/18-21 Illustrations)
  • Ctry (008/15-17 Place of Publication, Production, or Execution)
  • Dat tp (008/06 Type of Date/publication Status)
  • Dates (008/07-10, 008-11-14)
  • M/F/B (008/32-34 Main entry in body of entry/Fiction/Biography)
  • Indx (008/31 Index)
  • Cont (008/24-27 Nature of contents)
• Variable Fields
  • 041 (Language Code)
  • 043 (Geographic Area Code)
  • 100 (Main entry--Personal Name)
  • 110 (Main entry--Corporate Name)
  • 240 (Uniform Title)
  • 245 (Title Statement)
  • 246 (Varying Form of Title)
  • 250 (Edition Statement)
  • 260 (Publication, Distribution, etc. )
  • 300 (Physical Description)
  • 4XX (Series Statement)
  • 5XX (Note)
  • 6XX (Subject Added Entry)
  • 7XX (Added Entry)
  • 8XX (Series Added Entry)