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653 - Index Term-Uncontrolled (R)


MARC 21 Bibliographic - full
June 2023

First Indicator Second Indicator
Level of index term
# - No information provided
0 - No level specified
1 - Primary
2 - Secondary

Type of term or name
# - No information provided
0 - Topical term
1 - Personal name
2 - Corporate name
3 - Meeting name
4 - Chronological term
5 - Geographic name
6 - Genre/form term


Subfield Codes
  • $a - Uncontrolled term (R)
  • $0 - Authority record control number or standard number (R)
  • $1 - Real World Object URI (R)
  • $5 - Institution to which field applies (NR)
  • $6 - Linkage (NR)
  • $7 - Data provenance (R)
  • $8 - Field link and sequence number (R)

FIELD DEFINITION AND SCOPE

Index term added entry that is not constructed by standard subject heading/thesaurus-building conventions.


GUIDELINES FOR APPLYING CONTENT DESIGNATORS

INDICATORS

First Indicator - Level of index term

Used to distinguish primary and secondary descriptors.

# - No information provided
0 - No level specified

Level of the subject term could be determined but is not specified.

1 - Primary

Main focus or subject content of the material.

2 - Secondary

Less important aspect of the content of the material.

Second Indicator - Type of term or name

Distinguishes uncontrolled index terms by type.

# - No information provided
0 - Topical term

240 00$aHere comes everybody$lGerman
245 14$aEin Mann in Dublin namens Joyce$cAnthony Burgess. [Übers. ins Dt.: Gisela u. Manfred Triesch]
653 #0$aMann
653 #5$aDublin
653 #1$aJoyce
1 - Personal name

653 #1$aPlath
2 - Corporate name

653 #2$aUNICEF
3 - Meeting name
4 - Chronological term
5 - Geographic name

653 #5$aHamburg
6 - Genre/form term

SUBFIELD CODES

$a - Uncontrolled term

Index term is from an uncontrolled subject heading system or thesaurus.

Subfield $a is repeatable when more than one index term at the level designated in the first indicator is assigned.

If the second indicator is other than blank (#), subfield $a is not repeated unless the content of all $a subfields are of the same type.

653 1#$afuel cells$amolten carbonate$apower generation
653 ##$aMan$aEyes$aDiseases
245 10$aGesetz und Freiheit$beine Philosophie der Kunst$cHarald Fricke
653 #0$aGesetz
653 #0$aFreiheit

$0 - Authority record control number or standard number

A standard number or code associated with the entity named in $a.

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

653 ##$aAcousTech Mastering$0(discogs)l265260
653 ##$aTanakh$0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79054379
653 #5$aSaco Lake$0(gnis)872606$0(geonames)5092045$1https://sws.geonames.org/5092045/

$1 - Real World Object URI

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

653 ##$aRussian invasion of Ukraine$1http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q110999040
653 ##$aMelbourne General Post Office$1http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6811781
653 #2$aThe Scottish Salmon Company$1http://www.bbc.co.uk/things/1fa5ed44-55c0-4d90-8349-b51d28fadd14#id

$5 - Institution to which field applies

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

653 #6$aHand colouring$0http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300133555$1http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q104341641$5OTU

$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.


INPUT CONVENTIONS

Punctuation - Field 653 does not end with a mark of punctuation or a closing parenthesis unless punctuation is part of the data.

653 ##$aStamp collecting (United States)

Uncontrolled terms followed by a subsequent term does not end with a mark of punctuation or a closing parenthesis unless the preceding term ends with punctuation as part of the data.

653 1#$aIce, Sculpture, moulds, etc.$aChildren's games

Spacing - No spaces are used in initialisms, acronyms, or abbreviations.

653 ##$aS.C.U.B.A.

Imprint Date Data - Imprint date (i.e., the date found in 260$c) may be used with the term Imprints for imprint access. The imprint date appears in one of three patterns:

653 ##$aImprints<century> <date as found in 260$c>
653 ##$aImprints 18th century 1788
653 ##$aImprints<not before date as found in 260$c>
653 ##$aImprints<not after date as found in 260$c>

Brackets are not used (even when present in 260$c).

260 ##$c[not before 1479]
653 ##$aImprints not before 1479
260 ##$c[not after 21 Aug. 1492]
653 ##$aImprints not after 21 Aug. 1492

CONTENT DESIGNATOR HISTORY

Indicator 2 - Type of term or name [NEW, 2007]
$0 - Authority record control number or standard number [NEW, 2023]
$1 - Real World Object URI [NEW, 2023]
$5 - Institution to which field applies [NEW, 2023]
$7 - Data provenance [NEW, 2022]

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