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04. Field 0500 / 002@ Bibliographic type and status – authority format

Position 1, 2 and 3

Tag Description Tag 002@ / 0500
Pos. 1 Pos. 2 Pos. 3 = Leader pos. 17 encoding level
M100 Heading – Personal Name T p n = complete authority record

o = incomplete authority record




When Leader position 17 is not present, the value o, i.e. incomplete authority record, is used.

Characters 1 and 2 are mandatory; character 3 is not mandatory.
M110 Heading – Corporate Name b
M111 Heading – Meeting Name c
M130 Heading – Uniform Title u
M147 Heading – Named Event d
M148 Heading – Chronological Term e
M150 Heading – Topical Term f
M151 Heading – Geographic Name g
M155 Heading – Genre/Form Term h
M162 Heading – Medium of Performance Term i
M180 Heading – General Subdivision j
M181 Heading – Geographic Subdivision k
M182 Heading – Chronological Subdivision l
M185 Heading – Form Subdivision m

To be able to discriminate between several thesauri of the same type, e.g. between different subject headings thesauri, we use the field 0501 / 002A,subfield $a / $a with the value used in subfield $2 of the related bibliographic field. In this way, there is always room for thesauri, without adapting field 0500 / 002@.

MATADI

The so-called MATADI is a single capital letter that can be used to limit a search to a certain type of resource, like authority records of personal names, corporate bodies, topical terms, etc. The MATADI code for authority records is equal to the second position of tag 0500 / 002@.

Pos. 1 of tag 0500

Pos. 2 of tag 0500

Description

MATADI

T p

Personal name P

T b
Corporate name B
T c
Meeting name
C
T u
Uniform title
U
T d
Named event
D
T e
Chronological term
E
T f
Topical term
F
T g
Geographic name
G
T h
Genre/form term
H
T i
Medium of performance term
I
T j General subdivision
J
T k Geographic subdivision
K
T l Chronological subdivision
L
T m Form subdivision M