Library of Congress >> MARC >> Bibliographic >> 3XX  >> 347

347 - Digital File Characteristics (R)

MARC 21 Bibliographic - concise
December 2017

Technical specification relating to the digital encoding of text, image, audio, video, and other types of data in a resource. This information could also be recorded in field 300 (Physical Description) $b (Other physical details).

Multiple values from the same source vocabulary may be recorded in the same field in separate occurrences of subfields. Terms from different source vocabularies are recorded in separate occurrences of the field.

Indicators

First - Undefined
# - Undefined
Second - Undefined
# - Undefined

Subfield Codes

$a - File type (R)
$b - Encoding format (R)
$c - File size (R)
$d - Resolution (R)
$e - Regional encoding (R)
$f - Encoded bitrate (R)
$0 - Authority record control number or standard number (R)
See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.
$1 - Real World Object URI (R)
See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.
$2 - Source (NR)
$3 - Materials specified (NR)
$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

347 ##$aaudio file$2rdaft
347 ##$bCD audio
347 ##$atext file$2rdaft
347 ##$bPDF
347 ##$avideo file$2rdaft
347 ##$bBlu-Ray
347 ##$adata file$2rdaft
347 ##$bXML
347 ##$c182 KB
347 ##$aimage file$2rdaft
347 ##$bJPEG
347 ##$d3.1 megapixels
347 ##$avideo file$2rdaft
347 ##$bDVD video
347 ##$eregion 4$2rdare
347 ##$aaudio file$2rdaft
347 ##$bMP3
347 ##$f32 kbps
Library of Congress >> MARC >> Bibliographic >> 3XX  >> 347
(12/18/2017)
Contact Us