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SBC-Standard The data standard for libraries

Licence

The SBC standard is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (external site) licence (CC BY-SA 4.0).

You are free to#

  • Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format,
  • Adapt — remix, transform and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.

The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the licence terms.

Under the following terms#

Attribution. You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the licence and indicate if changes were made. A sufficient attribution is, for example:

SBC-Standard, IBTC, https://sbc-standard.de/, CC BY-SA 4.0

ShareAlike. If you remix, transform or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same licence as the original.

No additional restrictions. You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the licence permits.

The authoritative text#

What counts is the licence text published by Creative Commons. It is maintained there and exists in official translations, which is why it is linked here rather than copied:

Who wrote the standard#

The SBC standard is a specification of IBTC (external site) in its own right, developed together with the church library advisory services. MAB2 and other formats prompted it — the references list them individually.

That field numbers and field names follow the designations customary there does not affect this: such identifiers are conventions and are not protectable in themselves.

Earlier versions#

Until 2026 the SBC standard was published under CC BY-SA 2.0 Germany (external site). That licence has been retired and applied under German law only. Anyone who received the standard under 2.0 DE at the time may continue to use it on those terms — a Creative Commons licence once granted cannot be revoked.

Disclaimer#

Creative Commons is not a law firm and does not provide legal services. Distributing the licence texts does not create a solicitor-client relationship. For the contents of the SBC standard itself, the notes under legal information about this documentation apply.

This page was translated automatically from the German original. If anything reads oddly or looks wrong, please let us know — the German edition prevails.