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653 - Index Term-Uncontrolled (R)

MARC 21 Bibliographic - Full

October 2007

First Indicator
Level of index term
# - No information provided
0 - No level specified
1 - Primary
2 - Secondary

Second Indicator
Type of term or name
# - No information provided
0 - Topical term
1 - Personal name
2 - Corporate name
3 - Meeting name
4 - Chronological term
5 - Geographic name
6 - Genre/form term


Subfield Codes
$a - Uncontrolled term (R) $6 - Linkage (NR)	$8 - Field link and sequence number (R)

FIELD DEFINITION AND SCOPE

Index term added entry that is not constructed by standard subject heading/thesaurus-building conventions.

GUIDELINES FOR APPLYING CONTENT DESIGNATORS

■ INDICATORS

First Indicator - Level of index term

Used to distinguish primary and secondary descriptors.

# - No information provided

0 - No level specified

Level of the subject term could be determined but is not specified.

1 - Primary

Main focus or subject content of the material.

2 - Secondary

Less important aspect of the content of the material.

Second Indicator - Type of term or name

Distinguishes uncontrolled index terms by type.

# - No information provided

0 - Topical term


240	00$aHere comes everybody$lGerman
245	14$aEin Mann in Dublin namens Joyce$cAnthony Burgess. [Übers. ins Dt.: Gisela u. Manfred Triesch]
653	#0$aMann
653	#5$aDublin
653	#1$aJoyce

1 - Personal name


653	#1$aPlath

2 - Corporate name


653	#2$aUNICEF

3 - Meeting name

4 - Chronological term

5 - Geographic name


653	#5$aHamburg

6 - Genre/form term

■ SUBFIELD CODES

$a - Uncontrolled term

Index term is from an uncontrolled subject heading system or thesaurus.

Subfield $a is repeatable when more than one index term at the level designated in the first indicator is assigned.

If the second indicator is other than blank (#), subfield $a is not repeated unless the content of all $a subfields are of the same type.


653	1#$afuel cells$amolten carbonate$apower generation
653	##$aMan$aEyes$aDiseases


245	10$aGesetz und Freiheit$beine Philosophie der Kunst$cHarald Fricke
653	#0$aGesetz
653	#0$aFreiheit

$6 - Linkage

See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.

$8 - Field link and sequence number

See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.

INPUT CONVENTIONS

Punctuation - Field 653 does not end with a mark of punctuation or a closing parenthesis unless punctuation is part of the data.


653	##$aStamp collecting (United States)

Uncontrolled terms followed by a subsequent term does not end with a mark of punctuation or a closing parenthesis unless the preceding term ends with punctuation as part of the data.


653	1#$aIce, Sculpture, moulds, etc.$aChildren's games

Spacing - No spaces are used in initialisms, acronyms, or abbreviations.


653	##$aS.C.U.B.A.

Imprint Date Data - Imprint date (i.e., the date found in 260$c) may be used with the term Imprints for imprint access. The imprint date appears in one of three patterns:


653	##$aImprints<century> <date as found in 260$c>
653	##$aImprints 18th century 1788
653	##$aImprints<not before date as found in 260$c>
653	##$aImprints<not after date as found in 260$c>

Brackets are not used (even when present in 260$c).


260	##$c[not before 1479]
653	##$aImprints not before 1479


260	##$c[not after 21 Aug. 1492]
653	##$aImprints not after 21 Aug. 1492

CONTENT DESIGNATOR HISTORY

Indicator 2 - Type of term or name [NEW, 2007]

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