Corporation (cataloging)
A corporation ("corporation name") applies in the rules for formal cataloging, regardless of the legal definition of the corporation :
- All associations of persons, organizations and institutions, companies and events that form a unit that can be individually identified by their name, for example: societies , clubs , associations , working groups; political parties, cooperatives, trade unions; Professional chambers; Academies , universities , colleges, technical schools, institutes, archives, libraries, museums , theaters; Companies, businesses; Banks , stock exchanges; Churches , orders , monasteries ; Congresses ; Trade fairs , festival weeks, exhibitions
- the territorial units ( regional authorities ), for example states, federal states, districts, districts , municipalities, and their organs , e.g. B. Parliaments , governments , ministries and other authorities and offices,
- intergovernmental and non-governmental international organizations .
In Germany, the corporate names were collected in the Common Corporation File (GKD), which was incorporated into the Common Authority File (GND) in April 2012 . The GND enables greater differentiation. Within the (traditional) group “corporation”, librarians now differentiate between organization (GND, type k) and event (type v); there are also fictitious corporations (kxz), groups of people that are not corporations (siu) and non-corporations (uiz).