https://www.cerl.org/ 2026-04-29T14:03:27+00:00 https://www.cerl.org/ https://www.cerl.org/_media/wiki/dokuwiki.svg text/html 2017-07-18T11:56:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/resources/cerl_thesaurus/editing/format/0rl?rev=1500378988&do=diff RECORD LABEL (M;NR) Field Definition and Scope The Record Label is constructed according to the provisions of ISO 2709. The record label is strictly speaking not a field and cannot be edited manually. It is retained for compliance with the ISO 2709 standard only text/html 2020-01-15T09:13:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/resources/cerl_thesaurus/editing/format/001?rev=1579079606&do=diff 001 Record identifier (M;NR) Field Definition and Scope The CERL thesaurus record identification number is a unique identifier. The identifier consists of a three letter prefix, indicating the type of entity described and a 8 digit number. Application of Content Designators text/html 2024-04-19T12:50:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/resources/cerl_thesaurus/editing/format/035?rev=1713531018&do=diff 035 Obsolete record identifier (O;R) Field Definition and Scope This field contains the record identifier of a record that has been merged into the current one for deduplication. Application of Content Designators Indicators both indicators are undefined and thus left blank text/html 2020-01-15T09:17:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/resources/cerl_thesaurus/editing/format/100?rev=1579079839&do=diff 100 Coded Data Field: General Processing Data (M;NR) Field Definition and Scope This field contains fixed-length coded data. This field cannot be input manually but will be created automatically when a record is rendered in the CT Internal Format. text/html 2020-01-15T09:22:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/resources/cerl_thesaurus/editing/format/110?rev=1579080149&do=diff 110 Coded Data Field: Type of Name used as Standard Form (M;NR) Field Definition and Scope This field contains a fixed length coded data element relating to the type of name which is used to create a standard form filed in field 200, 210, 212, 215. It is applicable to all kinds of records. text/html 2020-01-15T10:51:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/resources/cerl_thesaurus/editing/format/120?rev=1579085479&do=diff 120 Coded Data Field: Gender (O;NR) Field Definition and Scope This field indicates the gender of a person in coded form. Application of Content Designators Indicators both indicator positions are undefined and therefore left blank. Subfields text/html 2020-01-15T11:14:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/resources/cerl_thesaurus/editing/format/123?rev=1579086873&do=diff 123 Coded Data Field: Latitude and Longitude (O;NR) Field Definition and Scope This field contains the geographic co-ordinates of the place described in the given record. It may occur only in records for place names. In accordance with Unimarc Authorities, the format provides for referencing a rectangular shape, which , however is (currently) not supported in the CERL Thesaurus. A place is referenced by a single point. text/html 2020-01-22T17:09:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/resources/cerl_thesaurus/editing/format/200?rev=1579712946&do=diff 200 Heading Personal name (O;R) Field Definition and Scope This field is used for personal names of authors, editors contributors, collaborators etc. Headings for printers, publishers and booktraders should be recorded in field 210 Heading Imprint Name (O;R) in records of the type 'cni'. text/html 2020-01-22T17:16:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/resources/cerl_thesaurus/editing/format/210?rev=1579713388&do=diff 210 Heading Imprint Name (O;R) Field Definition and Scope This field is used for headings for printers, publishers or booktraders. Often the same person has been active in two or all three of these professions. Occasionally printer records carry the name of a firm instead of a person's name; the names of firms will be filed in 210 as well. Repeatable to show standard forms of name used by different institutions. text/html 2023-05-31T08:38:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/resources/cerl_thesaurus/editing/format/212?rev=1685522322&do=diff 212 Heading Corporate body Name (O;R) Field Definition and Scope This field is used for all types of corporate bodies except printers, publishers or booktraders, which should be recorded in a field 210 Heading Imprint Name (O;R) in a record of the type 'cni' Repeatable to show standard forms of names used by different institutions. As there is no authority form in a CERL Thesaurus record, no standard form has precedence over the other standard forms. text/html 2020-01-22T17:17:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/resources/cerl_thesaurus/editing/format/215?rev=1579713445&do=diff 215 Place Name (Heading) (O;R) Field Definition and Scope This field holds the name of a place in a standardised form used by a library or similar institution, a regional or international authority file or any other source that standardises geographic names. text/html 2020-01-23T07:14:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/resources/cerl_thesaurus/editing/format/290?rev=1579763678&do=diff 290 Source referred to in a record (O;NR) Field Definition and Scope This field contains an abbreviation of a reference work (bibliography, catalogue etc.) where the item or contents of the record have been cited or described. Such abbreviations occuring in records of imprint places, imprint names, corporate names or personal names are resolved in a source reference abbreviation record. text/html 2020-01-23T07:16:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/resources/cerl_thesaurus/editing/format/291?rev=1579763773&do=diff 291 Short title of work, whose imprint is a source for a record (O;R) Field Definition and Scope This field contains the short title of a work where the item described by the given record is occuring in the imprint or on the title page. Application of Content Designators text/html 2020-01-23T07:23:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/resources/cerl_thesaurus/editing/format/292?rev=1579764215&do=diff 292 Book owned by the described person / corporate entity (O;R) Field Definition and Scope This field contains the short title of a work of which a copy was owned by the described person or corporate body, if this item is considered a source of evidence for that person's or corporate body's name or other data related to that person/corporate body. text/html 2020-01-22T18:06:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/resources/cerl_thesaurus/editing/format/300?rev=1579716376&do=diff 300 General note (O;R) Field Definition and Scope This field is used for any kind of note meant to be read by the general user of the thesaurus. Application of Content Designators Indicators Indicator 1: none Indicator 2: Specifies the type of input: text/html 2020-01-22T18:03:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/resources/cerl_thesaurus/editing/format/321?rev=1579716207&do=diff 321 Source of Reference note This field is currently not used in the CERL Thesaurus. Mandatory: no Repeatable: no Related fields: 290, 291 Field Definition and Scope This field contains a brief mention of a reference work (bibliography, catalogue etc.) where a person, corporate entity or place has been cited or described (see field text/html 2020-01-22T18:09:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/resources/cerl_thesaurus/editing/format/340?rev=1579716549&do=diff 340 Biographical Dates / Dates of Existence (O;R) Field Definition and Scope This field contains information about the time a person or printer has lived or was active or about the time a corporate body did exist. Application of Content Designators text/html 2020-01-22T18:11:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/resources/cerl_thesaurus/editing/format/350?rev=1579716667&do=diff 350 Activity note (O;R) Field Definition and Scope This field contains information about function, profession, occupation or other kinds of activities of persons, printers, corporations and places. Application of Content Designators Indicators text/html 2020-01-22T18:12:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/resources/cerl_thesaurus/editing/format/356?rev=1579716738&do=diff 356 Geographical Note (O;R) Field Definition and Scope This field contains information about the region or country where a person, printer, corporation or place was located or active. It may also be used to record the movement of a person, printer or corporate body from one place to another or may hold any other geographic note on the described entity. text/html 2020-01-23T07:00:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/resources/cerl_thesaurus/editing/format/400?rev=1579762857&do=diff 400 Other form of Personal name (O;R) Field Definition and Scope This field holds forms of personal names that are not standardised headings, but found in imprints, reference works or similar. Real variants (different spellings, vernacular, foreign or historic forms etc.) as well as ficticious names (pseudonyms). text/html 2020-01-23T07:04:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/resources/cerl_thesaurus/editing/format/410?rev=1579763065&do=diff 410 Other Form of Imprint Name (O;R) Field Definition and Scope This field contains a variant name form (see-reference tracing) of a printer's or publisher's name. Application of Content Designators Indicators Indicator 1: Type of Name Form The first indicator specifies, whether the name form given in this field is fictional or non-fictional: text/html 2020-01-23T07:08:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/resources/cerl_thesaurus/editing/format/412?rev=1579763280&do=diff 412 Other form of Corporate body Name (O;R) Field Definition and Scope Any variant name of the corporate entity described in the record. Application of Content Designators Indicators Indicator 1: Specifies the type of name * 0 Name (default) text/html 2020-01-23T07:07:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/resources/cerl_thesaurus/editing/format/415?rev=1579763236&do=diff 415 Other form of Place name (O;R) Field Definition and Scope This field holds forms of a place name that are not standardised headings, but found in imprints, reference works or similar. Real variants (different spellings, vernacular, foreign or historic forms etc.) as well as ficticious names or names of other places used to disguise the actual place of publishing in a book's imprint. text/html 2020-01-22T17:26:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/resources/cerl_thesaurus/editing/format/500?rev=1579714006&do=diff 500 Related Personal Name (O;R) Field Definition and Scope This field contains one of the standard forms from another personal name record relating to the present record. It is repeatable, in order to link to more than one related record. The CERL Thesaurus id in $3 links to the other record. This field might be used in any record, it is not restricted to personal names records. text/html 2020-01-22T17:31:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/resources/cerl_thesaurus/editing/format/510?rev=1579714313&do=diff 510 Related Imprint Name (O;R) Field Definition and Scope This field contains one of the standard forms from another imprint name (printer) record relating to the present record. It is repeatable to link to more than one related record. The CERL Thesaurus id in $3 links to the other printer record. This field might be used in records of any type, it is not restricted to imprint name records. text/html 2020-01-22T17:33:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/resources/cerl_thesaurus/editing/format/512?rev=1579714415&do=diff 512 Related Corporate Body Name (O;R) Field Definition and Scope This field contains one of the standard forms from another corporate body record relating to the present record. It is repeatable to link to more than one related record. The CERL Thesaurus id in $3 links to the other corporate body record. This field may be used in records of any type, it is not restricted to corporate name records. text/html 2020-01-22T17:21:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/resources/cerl_thesaurus/editing/format/515?rev=1579713703&do=diff 515 Related Place (O;R) Field Definition and Scope This field contains the name of the place where a printer or publisher has been working, a corporate body has been active or a person has been born, died or lived. It can also contain a reference to a place the place described in the current record is related to. text/html 2020-01-22T17:36:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/resources/cerl_thesaurus/editing/format/516?rev=1579714590&do=diff 516 Sign / arms / mark / device (O;R) Field Definition and Scope This field describes a sign, coat of arms, a mark or a printer device, used by printers or other persons or corporate bodies. A printer device, which is assigned to a particular workshop or address of a printer and is not used in connection with other of his addresses should be filed in field 515$e. text/html 2020-01-22T17:38:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/resources/cerl_thesaurus/editing/format/801?rev=1579714734&do=diff 801 Originating Source (O;R) Field Definition and Scope This field contains an indication of the origin of all or part of the data contained in the record. It gives the identifier of the source record and the agency, who owns the source record. Application of Content Designators text/html 2020-01-15T09:09:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/resources/cerl_thesaurus/editing/format/830?rev=1579079360&do=diff 830 Cataloguer's Note (O;R) Field Definition and Scope This field is used for notes of a cataloguer meant to be read by other cataloguers only and not by the general (public) user of the thesaurus. It may futher contain any sort of marker (flag) to indicate that the current record belongs to a certain group of records. text/html 2020-01-22T17:49:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/resources/cerl_thesaurus/editing/format/831?rev=1579715379&do=diff 831 Duplicate control field (O;R) Field Definition and Scope This field is used for database updating purposes only. It shall not be displayed in the WWW interface, nor shall its content be edited by a cataloguer. Application of Content Designators text/html 2020-01-22T17:53:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/resources/cerl_thesaurus/editing/format/856?rev=1579715635&do=diff 856 Electronic Location and Access (O;R) Field Definition and Scope This field contains the information required to locate an electronic item. The information identifies the electronic location containing the item or from which it is available. It also contains information to retrieve the item by the access method identified in the first indicator position. text/html 2024-12-04T12:55:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/resources/cerl_thesaurus/editing/format/956?rev=1733316932&do=diff 956 Remote access to external systems (O;R) Field Definition and Scope This field holds the essential data that are necessary to trigger a retrieval operation in an external database system. The aim is to provide further information related to the described entity, which is out of scope of the CERL Thesaurus such as sample bibliographic records or provenance information. text/html 2017-08-14T11:45:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/resources/cerl_thesaurus/editing/format/990?rev=1502711147&do=diff 990 Redirect to other record (O;NR) Field Definition and Scope This field indicates that a record has been merged with another record and the contents of both records can be found under the other record's id. Application of Content Designators Indicators text/html 2020-01-22T17:58:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/resources/cerl_thesaurus/editing/format/998?rev=1579715933&do=diff 998 Date of record creation (M;NR) Field Definition and Scope This field is created when a new record is created. Application of Content Designators Indicators Indicator 1: none Indicator 2: none Subfields $a Date of first entry (M;NR) yyyymmdd text/html 2020-01-22T18:00:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/resources/cerl_thesaurus/editing/format/999?rev=1579716032&do=diff 999 Date of editing the record (O;R) Field Definition and Scope This field indicates the date and time the record has been changed and the editor who has performed this changes. This field is created by the database system and should not be inserted manually. text/html 2012-10-10T12:15:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/resources/cerl_thesaurus/editing/format/code_list_for_source_files?rev=1349871354&do=diff Code List for Source Files in the CERL Thesaurus please contact the Data Conversion Group in Göttingen for a complete and up-to-date list text/html 2020-01-16T08:07:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/resources/cerl_thesaurus/editing/format/list_of_insitution_and_file_codes_used_in_heading_fields?rev=1579162071&do=diff Insitution and file codes in heading fields The following codes may be used in a subfield $5 of a field 200, 210, 212 or 215 of the CERL Thesaurus. Where possible, codes from the Marc Code List for Organisations are used. aba010 Provenio (Czech castle libraries) text/html 2017-08-24T07:16:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/resources/cerl_thesaurus/editing/format/numerical_subfields?rev=1503559012&do=diff Numerical Subfields $8 Language Code A three letter code from the MARC Code List for languages (ISO 639-2) that indicated the language of the subfield $a or $n following immediately. Currently the following codes are supported: bel Belarusian cat Catalan cze