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NCA Rules
The NCA rules, published in 1997, are a UK national standard for the creation of personal, family and corporate names. The Rules represent a shift away from in-house conventions to nationally agreed standards. The Rules assist cataloguers in forming names for persons, families, places and corporate bodies which are unique and readily identifiable by users. By ensuring consistency in the structure of proper names the rules facilitate the exchange of data between repositories and greatly enhance data retrieval; for this reason NCA rules are used by major archival gateway services.
