MARC 21 Concise Bibliographic: Control Field 007
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after the 2000 edition of the MARC 21 Concise Formats was published and
are included in the 2001 printed edition of the MARC 21 Concise Formats.
This field contains special information about the physical
characteristics in a coded form. The information may represent the
whole item or parts of an item such as accompanying material.
The data elements in field 007 are positionally defined and the
number of character positions in field 007 depends upon the code
contained in 007/00. Character position 00 contains a code that
identifies the category of material. The fill character (|) is not
allowed in this position. The fill character may be used in any
other character position when the cataloging agency makes no
attempt to code the position.
The categories of material for which field 007 is applicable in bibliographic
records are presented in the following order in the field description: map,
globe, projected graphic, microform, nonprojected graphic, motion picture, sound
recording, text, videorecording, unspecified.
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Cartographic materials other than globes.
Character Positions
- 00 - Category of material
- 01 - Specific material designation
Indicates the special class of
cartographic material to which the item belongs.
- g - Diagram
A map characterized by simplified, or schematic,
representation.
- j - Map
A two-dimensional map.
- k - Profile
A scale representation of the intersection of a
vertical
surface with the surface of the ground or of a three-dimensional
model of
phenomena having continuous distribution.
- q - Model
A three-dimensional representation of a real
object.
- r - Remote-sensing image
An image produced by a recording device that is not in
physical
or intimate contact with the object under study.
- s - Section
A scaled representation of a vertical surface
displaying both
the intersection profile and the underlying
structures.
- y - View
A perspective representation of the landscape shown as
though
it were projected onto an oblique plane.
- 02 - Undefined
Each contains a blank (#) or fill character (|) - 03 - Color
Indicates whether the item is one
color or multicolored.
- 04 - Physical medium
Indicates the material of which
the item is
made.
- a - Paper
Any kind of cellulose-based paper.
- b - Wood
Includes particle board, but may or may not include
other
materials based on wood particles or fibers.
- e - Synthetic
Includes all man-made substances other than
textiles.
- f - Skin
Does not include synthetic materials that resemble
animal
skin.
- g - Textile
Includes all natural or synthetic fibre
fabrics.
- p - Plaster
Includes mixtures of ground solids and
plaster.
- q - Flexible base photographic,
positive
The material is a flexible base photographic medium
designed to render a positive image.
- r - Flexible base photographic,
negative
The material is a flexible base photographic medium
designed to render a negative image.
- s - Non-flexible base photographic,
positive
The material is a non-flexible base photographic medium
designed to render a positive image.
- t - Non-flexible base photographic,
negative
The material is a non-flexible base photographic medium
designed to render a negative image.
- y - Other photographic medium
Indicates a photographic medium other than those covered by
one of the more specific codes q, r, s, and t.
- 05 - Type of reproduction
Indicates whether the item is a
facsimile
or other type of reproduction.
- 06 - Production/reproduction details
Indicates the photographic
technique used
to produce the item.
- a - Photocopy, blueline print
A blueline image on a white background made and
reproduced by
the white print process.
- 07 - Positive/negative aspect
Indicates the positive/negative
polarity of
the photocopy or film.
- a - Positive
Lines and characters are dark on light
background.
- b - Negative
Lines and characters are light on dark
background.
- m - Mixed polarity
A mixture of positive and negative
images.
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Used for all computer files (i.e., programs, data files, etc.)
which usually consists of digitized machine-readable data or
program code intended to be accessed, processed, or executed
by computer.
Character Positions
- 00 - Category of material
- 01 - Specific material designation
Indicates the class of material
(usually the class of physical object) to which an item belongs
(e.g., a magnetic disc).
- c - Computer optical disc
cartridge
- 02 - Undefined
Each contains a blank (#) or fill character (|) - 03 - Color
Indicates whether the item is one
color or multicolored.
- 04 - Dimensions
Indicates the dimensions of the
item.
- 05 - Sound
Indicates whether the production
of sound is an integral part of a computer file.
- 06-08 - Image bit depth
A three-character number specifying the exact bit depth of the
scanned image(s) that comprise the computer file, or a
three-character alphabetic code which indicates that the exact bit
depth cannot be recorded. Since the exact bit depth is useful,
coding should not include missing digits represented by hyphens
(-). Three fill characters (|||) are used when no attempt has been
made to code this data element.
- 001-999 - Exact bit depth
- 09 - File formats
Indicates whether the file(s) which
comprise the computer file are of the same format or type for
digitally reformatted materials.
- 10 - Quality assurance target(s)
Indicates whether quality assurance
targets have been included appropriately at the time of
reformatting/creation.
- 11 - Antecedent/source
A one-character code which gives information about the source of
a digital file important to the creation, use and management of
digitally reformatted materials.
- a - File reproduced from
original
- b - File reproduced from
microform
- c - File reproduced from computer
file
- d - File reproduced from an intermediate (not
microform)
- 12 - Level of compression
Indicates the kind of compression to
which the computer file has been subjected.
- 13 - Reformatting quality
Indicates the reformatting quality; an overall
assessment of the physical quality of the computer file in
relation to its intended use. It can be used to judge the level of
quality of a file, and an institution's commitment to maintain its
availability over time.
- a - Access
Indicates that the computer file is of a quality that will
support current, electronic access to the original item, but not
sufficient to serve as a preservation copy.
- p - Preservation
Indicates that the computer file was created via reformatting to
help preserve the original item.
- r - Replacement
Indicates the computer file is of very high quality and, when
printed out, viewed on screen or played via a listening device,
could serve as a replacement should the original be lost, damaged,
or destroyed.
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A model of a celestial body depicted on the surface of a sphere.
See the descriptions of character positions /01-05
under 007 MAP.
Character Positions
- 00 - Category of material
- 01 - Specific material designation
- a - Celestial globe
A model relating to the sky of visible
heavens.
- b - Planetary or lunar globe
Does not include a globe of planet
Earth.
- 02 - Undefined
Each contains a blank (#) or fill character (|) - 03 - Color
- 04 - Physical medium
- 05 - Type of reproduction
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When field 007/00 contains code f, it contains special coded
information about the physical aspects of material that is intended
to be read by touch.
Character Positions
- 00 - Category of material
- 01 - Specific material designation
Indicates the special class of
tactile material to which the item belongs.
- d - Tactile, with no writing system
- 02 - Undefined
Each contains a blank (#) or fill character (|) - 03-04 - Class of braille writing
Indicates the family of braille to which the item belongs. This is not the
particular braille code, but the type of braille code used, representing different
types of written symbols. Up to two braille types may be indicated, or the
cataloging agency may choose to encode only the predominant type. Multiple
codes are coded in order of predominance. If fewer than two codes are assigned,
the codes are left justified and unused positions contain blanks (#).
- # - No specified class of braille writing
- c - Mathematics and scientific
braille
- m - Multiple braille types
- 05 - Level of contraction
Indicates whether contractions are
used.
- 06-08 - Braille music format
A three-character code that indicates the braille music format
of the item. The music formats are the way measures, sections,
parts, and related information, such as words, are presented in
relation to each other. Up to three formats may be indicated, left
justified in order of predominance. If fewer than three codes are
assigned, the codes are left justified and unused positions contain
blank (#). Three fill characters are used when no attempt has been
made to code this data element.
- # - No specified braille music format
- i - Spanner short form scoring
- 09 - Specific physical characteristics
- b - Jumbo or enlarged braille
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A two-dimensional representation intended to be projected
without motion by
means of an optical device.
Character Positions
- 00 - Category of material
- 01 - Specific material designation
Indicates the special class of
projected graphic to which the item belongs.
- d - Filmslip
A short filmstrip that is not in a
roll.
- s - Slide
Includes modern stereographs.
- 02 - Undefined
Each contains a blank (#) or fill character (|) - 03 - Color
Indicates the color
characteristics of the projected graphic.
- a - One color
Does not include black.
- b - Black-and-white
Does not include tinted, toned, or stained
items.
- z - Other
Includes tinted, toned, or stained
items.
- 04 - Base of emulsion
Indicates the type of material
for the base of the emulsion of the photonegative, filmstrip,
slide, or transparency.
- k - Film base, other than safety
film
- m - Mixed collection
The base of emulsion material varies for different
items in a collection.
- o - Paper
Any kind of cellulose-based paper.
- 05 - Sound on medium or separate
Indicates whether the sound is on
or is separate from the projected graphic.
- b - Sound separate from medium
The sound is on an accompanying item.
- 06 - Medium for sound
Indicates the specific medium
used to carry the sound (whether the sound is on the projected
graphic or separate) and the type of sound playback required.
- a - Optical sound track on motion
picture film
- b - Magnetic sound track on motion
picture film
- c - Magnetic audio tape in
cartridge
- e - Magnetic audio tape on
reel
- f - Magnetic audio tape in
cassette
- g - Optical and magnetic sound track on
motion picture film
- 07 - Dimensions
Indicates the width or dimensions
of the projected graphic.
- b - Super 8 mm./single 8
mm.
- k - 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 in. or 6x6
cm.
- v - 8x10 in. or 21x26
cm.
- x - 10x10 in. or 26x26
cm.
- 08 - Secondary support material
Indicates the type of material of
the mount of a slide or transparency.
- m - Mixed collection
The secondary support material varies for different
items in a collection.
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A transparent or opaque medium bearing microimages that are too
small to be read without magnification. A microform may be an
original publication or a reproduction of existing textual or
graphic material.
Character Positions
- 00 - Category of material
- 01 - Specific material designation
Indicates the special class of
microform to which the item belongs.
- z - Other
Includes microforms such as microchips, microdots, and
microform scrolls.
- 02 - Undefined
Each contains a blank (#) or fill character (|) - 03 - Positive/negative aspect
Indicates the positive/negative
polarity of the microform.
- a - Positive
Dark lines and characters against a light
background.
- b - Negative
Light lines and characters against a dark
background.
- m - Mixed polarity
Mixture of positive and negative
images.
- 04 - Dimensions
Indicates the dimensions of the
microform, not the dimensions of the image.
- p - 3 1/4 x 7 3/8 in. or 9x19
cm.
- 05 - Reduction ratio range
Indicates the reduction ratio
range of the microform. The specific reduction is recorded in
007/06-08 (Reduction ratio).
- a - Low reduction
Less than 16:1 ratio (less than 016).
- b - Normal reduction
Between 16:1 and 30:1 (016-030).
- c - High reduction
Between 31:1 and 60:1 (031-060).
- d - Very high reduction
Between 61:1 and 90:1 (061-090).
- e - Ultra high reduction
Over 90:1 (over 090).
- v - Reduction rate
varies
- 06-08 - Reduction ratio
The specific reduction ratio of the microform, recorded as
three digits. The number is right justified and each unused
position contains a zero. A hyphen is used for any unknown
portion of the reduction ratio. - 09 - Color
Indicates the color of the
image.
- b - Black-and-white (or
monochrome)
A single hue. Includes all
microopaques.
- m - Mixed
Combination of color and monochrome
images.
- 10 - Emulsion on film
Indicates the type of
light-sensitive material on the film.
- n - Not applicable
Used for microopaques.
- 11 - Generation
Indicates the generation of the
microform.
- a - First generation (master)
The camera master or COM recorder
master.
- b - Printing master
Any generation used mainly for the production of other
microforms.
- c - Service copy
A microform that is intended primarily for use rather
than for the production of other microforms. This code is used
for microopaques.
- 12 - Base of film
Indicates the base of the
film.
- a - Safety base,
undetermined
- c - Safety base, acetate
undetermined
- d - Safety base, diacetate
- p - Safety base, polyester
- r - Safety base, mixed
Mixed safety base films spliced together; no nitrate
film.
- t - Safety base, triacetate
- m - Mixed base (nitrate and
safety)
- n - Not applicable
A microform on a reflective rather than a transparent
base (e.g., microopaques).
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A two-dimensional pictorial representation not intended to be
projected for viewing.
Character Positions
- 00 - Category of material
- 01 - Specific material designation
Indicates the special class of
nonprojected graphic to which the item belongs.
- f - Photomechanical
print
- i - Picture
Used when a more specific designation is unknown or
not desired.
- z - Other
Includes mixed media productions made by a combination
of free hand and printing techniques, neither of which
predominates.
- 02 - Undefined
Each contains a blank (#) or fill character (|) - 03 - Color
Indicates the color
characteristics of the nonprojected graphic.
- a - One color
Does not include black.
- z - Other
Includes stained, tinted, or toned
items.
- 04 - Primary support material
Indicates the type of material
used for the support or base on which an image is printed or
executed.
- c - Cardboard/illustration
board
- e - Synthetic
Does not include synthetics formed to resemble
textiles.
- f - Skin
Does not include synthetic materials that resemble
skin.
- g - Textile
Includes all natural or synthetic fibre fabrics except
canvas.
- m - Mixed collection
The primary support material varies for different
items in a collection.
- o - Paper
Any kind of cellulose-based paper.
- p - Plaster
Includes mixtures of ground solids and
plaster.
- r - Porcelain
Used only for clay-based porcelain.
- t - Wood
Includes particle board, but may or may not include
other materials based on wood particles or fibers.
- 05 - Secondary support material
Indicates the type of material to
which the primary support is attached.
- c - Cardboard/illustration
board
- e - Synthetic
Does not include synthetics formed to resemble textiles.
- f - Skin
Does not include synthetic materials that resemble skin.
- g - Textile
Includes all natural or synthetic fibre fabrics except canvas.
- m - Mixed collection
The primary support material varies for different items in a collection
- o - Paper
Any kind of cellulose-based paper.
- p - Plaster
Includes mixtures of ground solids and plaster.
- r - Porcelain
Used only for clay-based porcelain.
- t - Wood
Includes particle board, but may or may not include other materials based on wood
particles or fibers.
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A series of still pictures on film, with or without sound,
designed to be projected in rapid succession to produce the
optical effect of motion.
Character Positions
- 00 - Category of material
- 01 - Specific material designation
Indicates the special class of
motion picture to which the item belongs.
- r - Film reel
Includes sound track film that accompanies visual
images actually not present.
- 02 - Undefined
Each contains a blank (#) or fill character (|) - 03 - Color
Indicates the color
characteristics of the motion picture.
- n - Not applicable
The item has no images.
- 04 - Motion picture presentation
format
Indicates the presentation format
of the motion picture.
- a - Standard sound aperture (reduced
frame)
Non-wide-screen format.
- b - Nonanamorphic
(wide-screen)
Wide-screen effect without optically compressing the
image or requiring the use of special projection
techniques.
- d - Anamorphic
(wide-screen)
- e - Other wide-screen
format
- f - Standard silent aperture (full
frame)
35 mm. film on which the exposed picture is
approximately the width of the space between the perforation holes
of the frame.
- 05 - Sound on medium or separate
Indicates whether the sound is on
or is separate from the motion picture.
- b - Sound separate from
medium
- 06 - Medium for sound
Indicates the specific medium used to carry the sound (whether
that sound is carried on the item itself or is in the form of accompanying
material) and the type of sound playback required.
- a - Optical sound track on motion
picture film
- b - Magnetic sound track on motion
picture film
- c - Magnetic audio tape in
cartridge
- e - Magnetic audio tape on
reel
- f - Magnetic audio tape in
cassette
- g - Optical and magnetic sound track on
motion picture film
- 07 - Dimensions
Indicates the width of the motion
picture film.
- b - Super 8 mm./single 8
mm.
- 08 - Configuration of playback
channels
Indicates the configuration of
intended playback channels for the sound of the motion
picture.
- k - Mixed
More than one configuration on a single motion
picture.
- n - Not applicable
Film has no sound or sound is on separate
medium.
- q - Quadraphonic, multichannel, or
surround
- 09 - Production elements
Indicates whether the film is
part of a complete production or is a preliminary or
post-production element.
- a - Workprint
A print from the original camera footage that is
edited to achieve a final version.
- b - Trims
Sections of shots remaining after selections have been
incorporated into a workprint.
- c - Outtakes
Discarded shots.
- d - Rushes
First positive print of a previous day's
shooting.
- e - Mixing tracks
Separate sound tracks that are combined for the final
film sound track.
- f - Title bands/intertitle
rolls
Printed captions or titles separated from their
corresponding pictures.
- g - Production rolls
Various types of production elements before they are
cut and assembled into reels.
- 10 - Positive/negative aspect
Indicates whether the film is
positive or negative.
- a - Positive
The colors and/or tonal values are the same as the
original subject matter.
- b - Negative
For black-and-white film, the tonal values are the
opposite of the original subject matter. For color film, they are
the complements of the original subject.
- 11 - Generation
Indicates how far away from the
original material the item is. Generation data are used to
evaluate the quality of available copies, to make preservation
decisions, and to identify materials available for viewing and
research.
- r - Reference print/viewing
copy
- 12 - Base of film
Indicates the base of the
film.
- a - Safety base,
undetermined
- c - Safety base, acetate
undetermined
- d - Safety base,
diacetate
- p - Safety base,
polyester
- r - Safety base, mixed
Mixed safety base films spliced together; no nitrate
film.
- t - Safety base,
triacetate
- m - Mixed base (nitrate and
safety)
- n - Not applicable
The item does not have a film base (e.g., paper
film).
- 13 - Refined categories of color
Indicates more specific color
characteristics of the moving image than are contained in 007/03
(Color).
- b - 2 color, single
strip
- 14 - Kind of color stock or print
Indicates the type of color film
stock or color print the item represents.
- a - Imbibition dye transfer
prints
- c - Three layer stock, low
fade
- 15 - Deterioration stage
Indicates the level of
deterioration of the film.
- b - Nitrate: suspicious
odor
- c - Nitrate: pungent
odor
- d - Nitrate: brownish, discoloration,
fading, dusty
- f - Nitrate: frothy, bubbles,
blisters
- k - Non-nitrate: detectable
deterioration (diacetate odor)
- l - Non-nitrate: advanced
deterioration
- m - Non-nitrate:
disaster
- 16 - Completeness
Indicates whether the motion
picture is judged to be complete.
- 17-22 - Film inspection date
Six characters that indicate the most recent film
inspection date; the date is recorded in the pattern
ccyymm (century/year/month). A hyphen is used for any
unknown portion of the date. Six fill characters (||||||) are used if no
attempt is made to code these character positions.
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Indicates that the item is a kit, which is defined as a mixture of various
components issued as a unit and intended primarily for
instructional purposes. No one component is identifiable as the
predominant component of the item.
Character Positions
- 00 - Category of material
- 01 - Specific material designation
Indicates the special class of
textual material to which an item belongs.
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Indicates that the item is a notated music, which is defined as
graphic, non-realized representations of musical works, both in
printed and digitized manifestations. It includes musical scores
and/or parts, diagrammatic representations, tablature, instructions
for chance compositions, pictures or paintings intended as musical
compositions, square note notation, klavirskribo, chant notation,
neumes, braille, and other ways of representing the four components
of musical sound: pitch, duration, timbre, and loudness.
Character Positions
- 00 - Category of material
- 01 - Specific material designation
Indicates the special class of
textual material to which an item belongs.
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Indicates that the item is a remote-sensing image which is
defined as an image produced by a recording device that is not
in physical or intimate contact with the object under study. This
may be a map or other image that is obtained through various remote
sensing devices such as cameras, computers, lasers, radio
frequency receivers, radar systems, sonar, seismographs,
gravimeters, magnetometers, and scintillation counters.
Character Positions
- 00 - Category of material
- 01 - Specific material designation
Indicates the special class of
material, usually the class of physical object, to which
an item belongs.
- 02 - Undefined
Each contains a blank (#) or fill character (|) - 03 - Altitude of sensor
Indicates the general position of the sensor relative to
the object under study.
- 04 - Attitude of sensor
Indicates the general angle of the device from which
a remote-sensing image is made.
- 05 - Cloud cover
Indicates the amount of cloud cover that was present
when a remote-sensing image was made.
- 06 - Platform construction type
Indicates the type of construction of the platform serving
as the base for the remote-sensing device. For the purposes
of this data element, "platform" refers to any structure
that serves as a base, not only flat surfaces.
- b - Aircraft--low altitude
- c - Aircraft--medium altitude
- d - Aircraft--high altitude
- g - Land-based remote-sensing
device
- h - Water surface-based remote-sensing
device
- i - Submersible remote-sensing
device
- 07 - Platform use category
Indicates the primary use intended for the platform
specified in 007/06 (Platform construction type).
- 08 - Sensor type
Indicates the recording mode of the remote-sensing device,
specifically, whether the sensor is involved in the creation
of the transmission it eventually measures.
- 09-10 - Data type
A two-character code that indicates the spectral, acoustic,
or magnetic characteristics of the data received by the device
producing the remote-sensing image. It can be used to indicate
both the wave length of radiation measured and the type of sensor
used to measure it.
- de - Shortwave infrared (SWIR)
- ga - Sidelooking airborne radar
(SLAR)
- gb - Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)-Single
frequency
- gc - SAR-multi-frequency
(multichannel)
- gd - SAR-like polarization
- ge - SAR-cross polarization
- gu - Passive microwave mapping
- gz - Other microwave data
- jv - Ultraviolet combinations
- jz - Other ultraviolet data
- ma - Multi-spectral, multidata
- mm - Combination of various data
types
- pb - Sonar--bottom topography images,
sidescan
- pc - Sonar--bottom topography, near
surface
- pd - Sonar--bottom topography, near
bottom
- pz - Other acoustical data
- ra - Gravity anomalies
(general)
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A disc, tape, film, cylinder, or wire on which sound vibrations
have been registered so that the sound may be reproduced; and
paper rolls on which the notes of a music composition are
represented by perforations in the paper and
from which sound can be mechanically produced.
Character Positions
- 00 - Category of material
- 01 - Specific material designation
Indicates the special class of
sound recording to which the item belongs.
- 02 - Undefined
Each contains a blank (#) or fill character (|) - 03 - Speed
Indicates the playback speed of
the sound recording.
- 04 - Configuration of playback
channels
Indicates the configuration of
playback channels for the sound recording.
- 05 - Groove width/groove pitch
Indicates the width of the groove
of the recording for a disc or the pitch of the groove for a
cylinder.
- 06 - Dimensions
Indicates the diameter of an open
reel or disc, or the dimensions of a cassette, cartridge,
or cylinder.
- 07 - Tape width
Indicates the width of a
tape.
- 08 - Tape configuration
Indicates the number of tracks on
a tape.
- 09 - Kind of disc, cylinder or tape
Indicates the type of disc,
cylinder, or tape.
- a - Master tape
The final tape production master that is used to make
a disc master or a tape duplication master.
- b - Tape duplication master
A sound tape produced from the master
tape.
- d - Disc master (negative)
A negative disc master that is used for the
preparation of the mother from which more serviceable and longer
lasting metal stampers can be
made.
- i - Instantaneous (recorded on the
spot)
- m - Mass produced
Includes discs or tapes issued as limited pressing or
limited issue for private distribution.
- r - Mother (positive)
An exact copy of the original disc recording pressed
from the disc master from which a negative metal stamper is made
to press discs for distribution.
- s - Stamper (negative)
A negative metal part, produced from the mother in an
electroplating procedure, from which 500 to 750 discs may be
pressed.
- t - Test pressing
Either one finished disc or one of a very limited
pressing designed to be examined aurally before a decision is made
to proceed with a
pressing.
- u - Unknown
Also used when it cannot be determined whether the
item is instantaneous or mass-produced.
- 10 - Kind of material
Indicates the kind of material
used in the manufacture of the disc or the cylinder (both
instantaneous and mass-produced).
- 11 - Kind of cutting
Indicates the kind of cutting
used to make the grooves used on a disc.
- h - Hill-and-dale cutting
A vertical cutting; no lateral information intended
for reproduction.
- l - Lateral or combined
cutting
- n - Not applicable
Includes compact audio discs (they are pitted rather
than cut).
- 12 - Special playback characteristics
Indicates the playback
characteristics for the sound recording, including special
equipment or equalization necessary for proper playback. The code
is not used to indicate special processes used during the making
of the recording unless those processes must be applied during
playback.
- a - NAB standard
National Association of Broadcasters playback
equalization is required.
- b - CCIR standard
Comit‚ consultatif de la radiodiffusion playback
equalization is required.
- 13 - Capture and storage technique
Indicates how the sound was
originally captured and stored. A re-released recording is coded
for the original capture and storage technique.
- a - Acoustical capture, direct
storage
Usually, a disc or cylinder recording, captured using
an acoustical horn and diaphragm and stored directly on a master
surface (most date from before 1927/29).
- b - Direct storage, not
acoustical
A disc recording captured using electrical equipment
and stored directly on a master surface. All recordings made with
microphones and other electrical equipment prior to the
availability of magnetic recording techniques in the late l940s
used direct storage.
- d - Digital storage
A sound recording which was captured electrically and
stored using digital techniques.
- e - Analog electrical storage
A sound recording which was captured using electrical
techniques and stored as modulations and pulses on a magnetic
surface. Most recordings made from the late 1940s until the early
1980s are analog electrical recordings.
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Eye-readable printed or manuscript material.
Character Positions
- 00 - Category of material
- 01 - Specific material designation
Indicates the special class of
textual material to which an item belongs.
- d - Text in looseleaf
binder
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A recording on which visual images, usually in motion and
accompanied by sound, have been registered, and which are designed
for playback on a television receiver or video monitor.
Character Positions
- 00 - Category of material
- 01 - Specific material designation
Indicates the special class of
videorecording to which an item belongs.
- 02 - Undefined
Each contains a blank (#) or fill character (|) - 03 - Color
Indicates the color
characteristics of a videorecording.
- n - Not applicable
The item has no images, e.g., a videorecording with
sound only.
- 04 - Videorecording format
Indicates the videotape or
videodisc recording format.
- a - Beta (1/2 in.,
videocassette)
- b - VHS (1/2 in.,
videocassette)
- c - U-matic (3/4 in.,
videocassette)
- f - Quadruplex (1 in. or 2 in.,
reel)
- h - CED (Capacitance Electronic Disc)
videodisc
- i - Betacam (1/2 in.,
videocassette)
- j - Betacam SP (1/2 in.,
videocassette)
- k - Super-VHS (1/2 in.,
videocassette)
- m - M-II (1/2 in.,
videocassette)
- o - D-2 (3/4 in.,
videocassette)
- 05 - Sound on medium or separate
Indicates whether the sound is on
or is separate from the videorecording.
- b - Sound separate from
medium
- 06 - Medium for sound
Indicates the specific medium
used to carry the sound (whether the sound is on the
videorecording or separate) and the type of sound playback
required.
- a - Optical sound track on motion
picture film
- b - Magnetic sound track on motion
picture film
- c - Magnetic audio tape in
cartridge
- e - Magnetic audio tape on
reel
- f - Magnetic audio tape in
cassette
- g - Optical and magnetic sound track on
motion picture film
- 07 - Dimensions
Indicates the width of the
videorecording.
- 08 - Configuration of playback
channels
Indicates the configuration of
intended playback channels for the sound portion of the
videorecording.
- k - Mixed
More than one configuration on a single
videorecording.
- n - Not applicable
Videorecording has no sound or sound is on separate
medium.
- q - Quadraphonic, multichannel, or
surround
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The physical form of the described item is not identified by any
other 007 category-of-material code. This category is also used
for an item having multiple physical forms that are not identified
in separate 007 fields.
Character Positions
- 00 - Category of material
- 01 - Specific material designation
Indicates the special class of
material to which the item belongs.
- m - Multiple physical
forms
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