046 - Special Coded Dates (R)


MARC 21 Authority - Concise
2010

This is an ARCHIVED VERSION of the 2009/2010 electronic edition of the MARC 21 Concise Formats. Please see loc.gov/marc/concise/ for the most up-to-date version of the electronic MARC 21 Concise Formats.

Dates that are associated with the entity described in the record. These include:

For a person: a person's date of birth, date of death, and the date or date range of the person's period of activity.

For a corporate body: a date or range of dates on which a conference, etc., is held, or a date with which the corporate body is otherwise associated (e.g., date of establishment, date of termination).

For a family: a significant date associated with the family.

Indicators
First - Undefined
# - Undefined
Second - Undefined
# - Undefined
Subfield Codes
$f - Birth date (NR)
$g - Death date (NR)
$k - Beginning or single date created (NR)
$l - Ending date created (NR)
$s - Start period (NR)
$t - End period (NR)
$u - Uniform Resource Identifier (R)
$v - Source of information (R)
$2 - Source of date scheme (NR)
Source of the date scheme used in the field if not in the form yyyymmdd as specified in subfield $f (Birth date). Code from: Date and Time Scheme Source Codes.
$6 - Linkage (NR)
See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.
$8 - Field link and sequence number (R)
See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.
Examples
046 ##$f1931
100 1#$aMunro, Alice,$d1931-
046 ##$f19360505
100 1#$aSmith, John,$d1936 May 5-
046 ##$f1899$g1961
100 1#$aHemingway, Ernest,$d1899-1961
046 ##$s1977
110 2#$aDouble Image (Musical group : 1977-)
046 ##$s1925$t1979
100 3#$aPahlavi (Dynasty : 1925-1979)
046 ##$f1831?$2edtf
100 1#$aSmith, James,$dborn 1831?[probable year of birth]

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