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Middlesex University Research Repository An open access repository of Middlesex University research http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk Hopkinson, Alan (2008) UNIMARC manual. Manual. K.G. Saur, Munich. [Monograph] This version is available at: https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/2655/ Copyright: Middlesex University Research Repository makes the University’s research available electronically. Copyright and moral rights to this work are retained by the author and/or other copyright owners unless otherwise stated. The work is supplied on the understanding that any use for commercial gain is strictly forbidden. A copy may be downloaded for personal, non-commercial, research or study without prior permission and without charge. Works, including theses and research projects, may not be reproduced in any format or medium, or extensive quotations taken from them, or their content changed in any way, without first obtaining permission in writing from the copyright holder(s). 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See also repository copyright: re-use policy: http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/policies.html#copy 5 CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................. 7 1.1 Purpose and Scope of UNIMARC ........................................................................ 7 1.2 Format Maintenance.............................................................................................. 7 1.3 Definitions ............................................................................................................. 7 1.4 Superseded documentation .................................................................................... 9 2. ORGANIZATION OF THE MANUAL ................................................................ 10 2.1 General Organization ............................................................................................ 10 2.2 Notation Conventions............................................................................................ 11 3 FORMAT STRUCTURE ....................................................................................... 12 3.1 General Structure .................................................................................................. 12 3.2 Record Label ......................................................................................................... 12 3.3 Directory ............................................................................................................... 12 3.4 Variable Fields ...................................................................................................... 13 3.5 Mandatory Fields .................................................................................................. 13 3.6 Length of Records ................................................................................................. 14 3.7 Record Linking ..................................................................................................... 14 3.8 Character Sets ....................................................................................................... 15 3.9 Repetition of data .................................................................................................. 15 3.10 Numerical Subfields .............................................................................................. 16 3.11 Treatment of Different Scripts .............................................................................. 16 3.12 Copy Specific Data ............................................................................................... 16 3.13 Interfield Linking Data .......................................................................................... 16 4 RECORD LABEL AND DATA FIELDS — GENERAL INTRODUCTION ...... 20 4.1 Repetition of Fields and Subfields ........................................................................ 20 4.2 Order of Fields ...................................................................................................... 20 4.3 Order of Subfields ................................................................................................. 20 4.4 Characters.............................................................................................................. 21 4.5 Characters for Use in Cases of Ambiguity ............................................................ 21 4.6 Non-Filing Control Functions ............................................................................... 22 4.7 Form and Content of Data ..................................................................................... 22 4.8 Punctuation............................................................................................................ 23 4.9 National and Local Use ......................................................................................... 23 RECORD LABEL AND DATA FIELDS – FIELD DESCRIPTION ................................... 24 RECORD LABEL.................................................................................................................. 29 DATA FIELDS ...................................................................................................................... 36 UNIMARC Bibliographic, 3 rd edition 2008 Contents 6 UNIMARC Manual APPENDIXES ....................................................................................................................... 589 Appendix A: Language Codes .............................................................................................. 589 Appendix B: Country Codes ................................................................................................. 597 Appendix C: Relator Codes .................................................................................................. 600 Appendix D: Geographic Area Codes ................................................................................... 613 Appendix E: Time Period Code ............................................................................................ 709 Appendix F: Cartographic Materials Codes ......................................................................... 712 Appendix G: Subject Systems Codes .................................................................................... 713 Appendix H: Cataloguing Rules and Formats Codes ............................................................ 716 Appendix I: Table of Values ................................................................................................ 721 Appendix J: Character Sets .................................................................................................. 729 Appendix K: Documentation to Accompany Exchange Records .......................................... 738 Appendix L: Complete Examples ......................................................................................... 740 Appendix M: Bibliography .................................................................................................... 755 Appendix N: Useful Addresses ............................................................................................. 758 Appendix O: Format Changes ............................................................................................... 759 2008 UNIMARC Bibliographic, 3 rd edition UNIMARC Manual 7 Introduction 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Purpose and Scope of UNIMARC The primary purpose of UNIMARC is to facilitate the international exchange of bibliographic data in machine-readable form between national bibliographic agencies. UNIMARC may also be used as a model for the development of new machine-readable bibliographic formats. The scope of UNIMARC is to specify the content designators (tags, indicators and subfield codes) to be assigned to bibliographic records in machine-readable form and to specify the logical and physical format of the records. It covers monographs, continuing resources, cartographic materials, music, sound recordings, graphics, projected and video materials, rare books and archival materials and electronic resources. UNIMARC is intended to be a carrier format for exchange purposes. It does not stipulate the form, content, or record structure of the data within individual systems. UNIMARC does provide recommendations on the form and content of data when it is to be exchanged. Records are usually structured in exchange tape format as the last stage in any conversion process, after form, content, and content designation have been converted to the UNIMARC standard. Those organizations intending to use UNIMARC for data interchange will find it useful to co-ordinate their internal format content designators and field and subfield definitions with those in UNIMARC to reduce the complexity of data conversion when the records are converted into the UNIMARC exchange tape structure. References are made where