The National Diet Library of Japan releases its Bibliographic Data Creation Plan 2018-2020

The National Diet Library (NDL), which celebrates its 70th anniversary this year, has recently released the “National Diet Library bibliographic data creation / provision plan 2018-2020” (PDF: 386 KB). After introducing the background and the outline, the purpose of the “bibliographic plan 2020” is detailed. Among the most important tasks of the plan, one is to define how to implement new Japanese cataloging rules, and enhance access to digitized materials published within the National Diet Library Digital Collection, notably the Journal article index.