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375 - GENDER (R)

MARC 21 Authority

Draft of approved field 2009

First Indicator
Undefined
# - Undefined

Second Indicator
Undefined
# - Undefined


Subfield Codes
$a - Gender (R) $s - Start period (NR) $t - End period (NR) $u - Uniform Resource Identifier (R) $v - Source of information (R)	$2 - Source of term (NR) $6 - Linkage (NR) $8 - Field link and sequence number (R)

FIELD DEFINITION AND SCOPE

The gender with which a person identifies. RDA instructs cataloguers to choose from the following list: female, male, unknown.

GUIDELINES FOR APPLYING CONTENT DESIGNATORS

■ INDICATORS

Both indicator positions are undefined; each contains a blank (#).

■ SUBFIELD CODES

$a - Gender

The gender with which a person identifies. (RDA 9.7)

$s - Start period

Starting date of a person's identification with a specified gender.

$t - End period

End date of a person's identification with a specified gender.

$u - Uniform Resource Identifier

Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), for example a URL or URN, which provides electronic access data in a standard syntax. This data can be used for automated access to an electronic item using one of the Internet protocols.

In field 375, subfield $u is used to record the location of external or supplemental information accessible electronically.

$v - Source of information

Source where the information recorded in field 375 was found.

$0 - Record control number

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

$2 - Source of term

Subfield for specifying a controlled vocabulary or source list from which a term is used.

$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.

EXAMPLES

100 1# $a Nabokov, Vladimir, $d 1869-1922  
375 ## $a male $2 [code for RDA list]

100 1# $a Morris, Jan, $d 1926-  
400 1# $w nne $a Morris, James, $d 1926-  
670 ## $a Author’s Conundrum, 1974  
375 ## $a male $s 1926 $2 [code for RDA list]  
375 ## $a female $s 1972? $2 [code for RDA list]         
            [b. James Humphry Morris, Oct. 2, 1926;          
            had sex change operation, took new name "Jan Morris"]

INPUT CONVENTIONS

RDA instructs cataloguers to choose from the following list: female, male, unknown. If none of the terms listed is appropriate or sufficiently specific, record an appropriate term or phrase, e.g. intersex.

Subfield 2 is included to allow for specifying the source of a controlled vocabulary (e.g. RDA list, ISO ISO/IEC 5218 “Information technology -- Codes for the representation of human sexes”).

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