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388 - Time Period of Creation (R)


MARC 21 Bibliographic - full
July 2022

First Indicator Second Indicator
Type of time period
# - No information provided
1 - Creation of work
2 - Creation of aggregate work

Undefined
# - Undefined


Subfield Codes
  • $a - Time period of creation term (R)
  • $0 - Authority record control number or standard number (R)
  • $1 - Real World Object URI (R)
  • $2 - Source of term (NR)
  • $3 - Materials specified (NR)
  • $6 - Linkage (NR)
  • $7 - Data provenance (R)
  • $8 - Field link and sequence number (R)

FIELD DEFINITION AND SCOPE

The time period of creation or origin of the work or expression (including aggregate works), or of the works or expressions contained in an aggregation.


GUIDELINES FOR APPLYING CONTENT DESIGNATORS

INDICATORS

First Indicator - Type of time period

# - No information provided

1 - Creation of work

The time period of creation or origin of the work/expression, or of the components of an aggregate work/expression considered collectively.

046 ##$k07uu/1100$2edtf
245 00$aBeowulf
388 1#$aAnglo-Saxon period$2[source code for controlled vocabulary]
[A work originally written between the 8th and 11th centuries A.D.]
046 ##$o-07uu/-05uu$p06uu$2edtf
245 00$aBroken laughter :$bselect fragments of Greek comedy.
388 1#$aAncient period$2[source code for controlled vocabulary]
[An aggregation of ancient Greek fragments, the dates of which could range from the 8th-6th centuries B.C. to the 7th century A.D.]
2 - Creation of aggregate work

The time period of creation or origin of an aggregate work/expression.

046 ##$k1985$l9999$o1801$p1899
245 00$aNineteenth century English drama$h[microform]
388 1#$a19th century$2[source code for controlled vocabulary]
388 2#$a20th century$a21st century$2[source code for controlled vocabulary]
[A set of English drama originally created from 1800-1899 and aggregated in a microform set beginning in 1985]

Second Indicator - Undefined

Undefined and contains a blank (#).

SUBFIELD CODES

$a - Time period of creation term

A term that indicates the time period of creation or orgin of the work/expression (including aggregate works), or of the works or expressions contained in an aggregation.

046 ##$k1980$o1781$p1791
100 1#$aMozart, Wolfgang Amadeus,$d1756-1791.
245 10$aDie grossen Opern.
388 1#$a1781-1791$2fast
388 1#$a18th century$2[source code for controlled vocabulary]
388 2#$a1980$2fast
[An aggregate work released in 1980, containing the individual works that were created from 1781-1791]

$0 - Authority record control number or standard number

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

$1 - Real World Object URI

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

$2 - Source of term

Specifies a code that identifies the source of a controlled vocabulary used in $a.

Code from: Temporal Term Source Codes.

$3 - Materials specified

Part of the described materials to which the field applies.

$6 - Linkage

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

$7 - Data provenance

See description of this subfield in Appendix J: Data Provenance Subfields.

$8 - Field link and sequence number

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


CONTENT DESIGNATOR HISTORY

Field 388 - Time Period of Creation [NEW, 2014]
$1 - Real World Object URI [NEW, 2017]
$7 - Data provenance [NEW, 2022]

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