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007 - Physical Description Fixed Field (NR)

MARC 21 Holdings - Full
October 2002
Indicators and Subfield Codes
No indicators or subfield codes; the data elements are positionally defined by category of material. Categories of material are listed alphabetically by code.
Character Positions
Map (007/00=a)
00 - Category of material
01 - Specific material designation
02 - Undefined
03 - Color
04 - Physical medium
05 - Type of reproduction
06 - Production/reproduction details
07 - Positive/negative aspect

Electronic resource (007/00=c)
00 - Category of material
01 - Specific material designation
02 - Undefined
03 - Color
04 - Dimensions
05 - Sound on medium or separate
06-08 - Image bit depth
09 - File formats
10 - Quality assurance targets
11 - Antecedent/source
12 - Level of compression
13 - Reformatting quality

Globe (007/00=d)
00 - Category of material
01 - Specific material designation
02 - Undefined
03 - Color
04 - Physical medium
05 - Type of reproduction

Tactile material (007/00=f)
00 - Category of material
01 - Specific material designation
02 - Undefined
03-04 - Class of braille writing
05 - Level of contraction
06-08 - Braille music format
09 - Special physical characteristics

Projected graphic (007/00=g)
00 - Category of material
01 - Specific material designation
02 - Undefined
03 - Color
04 - Base of emulsion
05 - Sound on medium or separate
06 - Medium for sound
07 - Dimensions
08 - Secondary support material

Microform (007/00=h)
00 - Category of material
01 - Specific material designation
02 - Undefined
03 - Positive/negative aspect
04 - Dimensions
05 - Reduction ratio range
06-08 - Reduction ration
09 - Color
10 - Emulsion on film
11 - Generation
12 - Base of film

Nonprojected graphic (007/00=k)
00 - Category of material
01 - Specific material designation
02 - Undefined
03 - Color
04 - Primary support material
05 - Secondary support material

Motion picture (007/00=m)
00 - Category of material
01 - Specific material designation
02 - Undefined
03 - Color
04 - Motion picture presentation format
05 - Sound on medium or separate
06 - Medium for sound
07 - Dimensions
08 - Configuration of playback channels
09 - Production elements
10 - Positive/negative aspect
11 - Generation
12 - Base of film
13 - Refined categories of color
14 - Kind of color stock or print
15 - Deterioration stage
16 - Completeness
17-22 - Film inspection date

Kit (007/00=o)
00 - Category of material
01 - Specific material designation

Notated music (007/00=q)
00 - Category of material
01 - Specific material designation

Remote-sensing image (007/00=r)
00 - Category of material
01 - Specific material designation
02 - Undefined
03 - Altitude of sensor
04 - Attitude of sensor
05 - Cloud cover
06 - Platform construction type
07 - Platform use category
08 - Sensor type
09-10 - Data type

Sound recording (007/00=s)
00 - Category of material
01 - Specific material designation
02 - Undefined
03 - Speed
04 - Configuration of playback channels
05 - Groove width/groove pitch
06 - Dimensions
07 - Tape width
08 - Tape configuration
09 - Kind of disc, cylinder, or tape
10 - Kind of material
11 - Kind of cutting
12 - Special playback characteristics
13 - Capture and storage technique

Text (007/00=t)
00 - Category of material
01 - Specific material designation

Videorecording (007/00=v)
00 - Category of material
01 - Specific material designation
02 - Undefined
03 - Color
04 - Videorecording format
05 - Sound on medium or separate
06 - Medium for sound
07 - Dimensions
08 - Configuration of playback channels

Unspecified (007/00=z)
00 - Category of material
01 - Specific material designation

FIELD DEFINITION AND SCOPE

Codes that describe the physical characteristics of the copy of the bibliographic item for which holdings are recorded. See the description of field 007 in the MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data for complete character position definitions and the content designators defined for this field. The Category of material code (007/00) may be described textually in field 842 (Textual Physical Form Designator).

Physical characteristics are usually derived from information in the related MARC bibliographic record, especially from field 300 (Physical Description) and/or one of the 5XX note fields.

Field 007 has a generic tree structure, whereby values given in 007/00 (Category of material) determine the data elements defined for subsequent character positions. Because the definitions of the codes in field 007 are dependent upon the character position in which they occur, the coding of any character position mandates that each preceding character position contains a code or a fill character (|).

Codes defined for the first character position (007/00, Category of material) are described below.

GUIDELINES FOR APPLYING CONTENT DESIGNATORS

■ CODES FOR 007/00 - CATEGORY OF MATERIAL

a - Map
All cartographic materials except globes.
007 aj|canzn
[Item is a map (007/00 and 01); in color (03); and on paper (04)]
c - Electronic resource
Item involves a medium intended to be used or processed by a computer.
007 cj|na#
[Item is an electronic resource (007/00); magnetic disk (01); dimensions 3 ½ in. (04)]
d - Globe
Item is a globe which is defined as the model of a celestial body, usually the earth or the celestial sphere, depicted on the surface of a sphere.
007 db|cen
[Item is a globe (007/00) of the moon (01); in color (03), made of plastic (04]
f - Tactile material
Item is tactile material which is defined as material intended to be read or interpreted by touch.
g - Projected graphic
Item is projected graphic material which is defined as a two-dimensional representation intended to be projected without motion by means of an optical device, for example, a filmstrip, slide, or transparency (includes x-rays).
007 go|cjbff#
[Item is projected graphic material (007/00);a filmstrip (01); in color (03); on safety film (04); the sound is separate from the medium (05) on magnetic tape in a cassette (06); and the filmstrip is 35 mm. (07)]
h - Microform
Microform is a generic term for any medium, transparent or opaque, bearing microimages. A microimage is a unit (e.g., a page) of textual, graphic, or computer-generated material that is contained on aperture cards, microfiche, microfilm, microopaques, or other microformats and that is too small to be read without magnification. Microforms may be reproductions of existing textual or graphic materials or they may be original publications.
007 he|bmb024baca
[Item is a microform (007/00) (originally a printed work that has been filmed for reproduction in the microfiche format); released as a microfiche (01); has negative polarity (03); is approximately 4x6 in. (04); has a normal reduction ratio (05) of 24:1 (06-08); is monochromatic (09); has an emulsion of silver halide (10); is a service copy (11); and is on safety base film (12).]
k - Nonprojected graphic
Item is a nonprojected graphic material, which is defined generally as a two-dimensional pictorial representation, whether opaque (for example, print, photoprint, drawing) or transparent, but not intended to be projected for viewing (for example, a photographic negative).
007 kl|ao#
[Item is a nonprojected graphic (007/00); a technical drawing (01); in a single color (03); is on paper (04); has no secondary support material (05).]
m - Motion picture
Item is a motion picture, which is defined as 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.
007 mr|caaadmnartauac198606
[Item is a motion picture (007/00); on reel (01); in color (03); standard sound aperture (04); on medium (05); optical track (06); 16 mm. (07); monaural sound (08); production elements not applicable (09); positive emulsion (10); reference print/viewing copy (11); safety base (triacetate) (12); three-layer color (13); kind of color film stock unknown (14); no apparent deterioration (15); complete film (16); and film inspected June 1986 (17-22).]
o - Kit
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. Examples are packages of assorted materials, such as a set of K-12 social studies curriculum material (books, workbooks, guides, activities, etc.), or packages of educational test materials (tests, answer sheets, scoring guides, score charts, interpretative manuals, etc.).
007 ou
q - Notated music
Item is 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. Notated music is often the means for communicating to the performer(s) how the musical work notated therein is to be realized in sound.
007 qu
r - Remote-sensing image
Item is a remote-sensing image or remote-sensing map, which is an image produced by a recording device that is not in physical or intimate contact with the object under study.
s - Sound recording
A storage medium containing recorded sound or a representation of a musical composition from which sound can be mechanically reproduced, such as a piano roll.
007 sd|bsmennmplud
[Item is a sound recording (007/00); released as a sound disc (01); with speed of 33 1/3 rpm (03); is stereo (04); with microgrooves (05); on a 12 in. disc (06); is mass-produced (09); on plastic (10); with lateral cutting (11); any special playback characteristics are unknown (12); and digital capture and storage (13).]
t - Text
Item is text, defined as printed or manuscript material that is accessible to the naked eye (e.g., a book, a pamphlet, a broadside).
007 ta
[Item is regular print text.]
007 td
[Item is in a loose-leaf binder.]
v - Videorecording
Item is a videorecording, defined as a recording on which visual images, usually in motion and accompanied by sound, have been registered. It is designed for playback by means of a television set.
007 vf|caahos
[Item is a videorecording (007/00); in a cassette (01); in color (03); in the Beta format (04); has sound on medium (05); on videotape (06); tape width is ½ in. (07); with stereophonic sound (08).]
z - Unspecified
Item is not identified by one of the other 007 code values or that its multiple physical forms are not being specifically denoted.
007 zm
[Item is a collection containing different material categories and separate 007 fields are not being input for the various components.]

INPUT CONVENTIONS

Repeatability - Field 007 is not repeatable in separate holdings records. A unique holdings record is made for each physical format for which a holdings statement is needed. For example, an organization's holdings statements for a videocassette available in U-matic, Beta, and VHS formats are contained in three separate holdings records, all of which may be linked to the same related MARC bibliographic record. Each holdings record contains a 007 field with codes that describe the physical characteristics of the specific videocassette format.
Capitalization - All codes used in field 007 should be input in lowercase.

CONTENT DESIGNATOR HISTORY

In 2002, the Computer file 007 field was renamed to “Electronic resource.”
In 2016, 007 field for Sound recording (00, code s) was redescribed to match the redescription of code s in Bibliographic 007/00.
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