MARC 21 Concise Bibliographic: Control Field 007
Information for Translators and Other Users
Items highlighted in
red indicate changes made after the 2000 edition of
the MARC 21 Concise Formats was published and are included in the 2001
printed edition of the MARC 21 Concise Formats.
This field contains special information about the physical characteristics in
a coded form. The information may represent the whole item or parts of an item
such as accompanying material.
The data elements in field 007 are positionally defined and the number of
character positions in field 007 depends upon the code contained in 007/00.
Character position 00 contains a code that identifies the category of material.
The fill character (|) is not allowed in this position. The fill character may
be used in any other character position when the cataloging agency makes no
attempt to code the position.
The categories of material for which field 007 is applicable in bibliographic
records are presented in the following order in the field description: map,
globe, projected graphic, microform, nonprojected graphic, motion picture, sound
recording, text, videorecording, unspecified.
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Cartographic materials other than globes.
Character Positions
- 00 - Category of material
- 01 - Specific material designation
Indicates the special class of
cartographic material to which the item belongs.
- g - Diagram
A map characterized by simplified, or schematic,
representation.
- j - Map
A two-dimensional map.
- k - Profile
A scale representation of the intersection of a vertical
surface with the surface of the ground or of a three-dimensional model of
phenomena having continuous distribution.
- q - Model
A three-dimensional representation of a real
object.
- r - Remote-sensing image
An image produced by a recording device that
is not in physical or intimate contact with the object under study.
- s - Section
A scaled representation of a vertical surface displaying
both the intersection profile and the underlying structures.
- y - View
A perspective representation of the landscape shown as
though it were projected onto an oblique plane.
- 02 - Undefined
Each contains a blank (#) or fill character (|)
- 03 - Color
Indicates whether the item is one color or multicolored.
- 04 - Physical medium
Indicates the material of which the item is made.
- a - Paper
Any kind of cellulose-based paper.
- b - Wood
Includes particle board, but may or may not include other
materials based on wood particles or fibers.
- e - Synthetic
Includes all man-made substances other than
textiles.
- f - Skin
Does not include synthetic materials that resemble animal
skin.
- g - Textile
Includes all natural or synthetic fibre fabrics.
- p - Plaster
Includes mixtures of ground solids and plaster.
- q - Flexible base photographic, positive
The material is a flexible
base photographic medium designed to render a positive image.
- r - Flexible base photographic, negative
The material is a flexible
base photographic medium designed to render a negative image.
- s - Non-flexible base photographic, positive
The material is a
non-flexible base photographic medium designed to render a positive
image.
- t - Non-flexible base photographic, negative
The material is a
non-flexible base photographic medium designed to render a negative
image.
- y - Other photographic medium
Indicates a photographic medium other
than those covered by one of the more specific codes q, r, s, and t.
- 05 - Type of reproduction
Indicates whether the item is a facsimile or
other type of reproduction.
- 06 - Production/reproduction details
Indicates the photographic
technique used to produce the item.
- a - Photocopy, blueline print
A blueline image on a white background
made and reproduced by the white print process.
- 07 - Positive/negative aspect
Indicates the positive/negative polarity
of the photocopy or film.
- a - Positive
Lines and characters are dark on light
background.
- b - Negative
Lines and characters are light on dark
background.
- m - Mixed polarity
A mixture of positive and negative images.
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Used for all computer files (i.e., programs, data files, etc.) which usually
consists of digitized machine-readable data or program code intended to be
accessed, processed, or executed by computer.
Character Positions
- 00 - Category of material
- 01 - Specific material designation
Indicates the class of material
(usually the class of physical object) to which an item belongs (e.g., a
magnetic disc).
- c - Computer optical disc cartridge
- 02 - Undefined
Each contains a blank (#) or fill character (|)
- 03 - Color
Indicates whether the item is one color or multicolored.
- 04 - Dimensions
Indicates the dimensions of the item.
- 05 - Sound
Indicates whether the production of sound is an integral
part of a computer file.
- 06-08 - Image bit depth
A three-character number specifying the exact
bit depth of the scanned image(s) that comprise the computer file, or a
three-character alphabetic code which indicates that the exact bit depth
cannot be recorded. Since the exact bit depth is useful, coding should not
include missing digits represented by hyphens (-). Three fill characters (|||)
are used when no attempt has been made to code this data element.
- 001-999 - Exact bit depth
- 09 - File formats
Indicates whether the file(s) which comprise the
computer file are of the same format or type for digitally reformatted
materials.
- 10 - Quality assurance target(s)
Indicates whether quality assurance
targets have been included appropriately at the time of reformatting/creation.
- 11 - Antecedent/source
A one-character code which gives information
about the source of a digital file important to the creation, use and
management of digitally reformatted materials.
- a - File reproduced from original
- b - File reproduced from microform
- c - File reproduced from computer file
- d - File reproduced from an intermediate (not microform)
- 12 - Level of compression
Indicates the kind of compression to which
the computer file has been subjected.
- 13 - Reformatting quality
Indicates the reformatting quality; an
overall assessment of the physical quality of the computer file in relation to
its intended use. It can be used to judge the level of quality of a file, and
an institution's commitment to maintain its availability over time.
- a - Access
Indicates that the computer file is of a quality that will
support current, electronic access to the original item, but not sufficient
to serve as a preservation copy.
- p - Preservation
Indicates that the computer file was created via
reformatting to help preserve the original item.
- r - Replacement
Indicates the computer file is of very high quality
and, when printed out, viewed on screen or played via a listening device,
could serve as a replacement should the original be lost, damaged, or
destroyed.
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A model of a celestial body depicted on the surface of a sphere. See the
descriptions of character positions /01-05 under 007
MAP.
Character Positions
- 00 - Category of material
- 01 - Specific material designation
- a - Celestial globe
A model relating to the sky of visible
heavens.
- b - Planetary or lunar globe
Does not include a globe of planet
Earth.
- 02 - Undefined
Each contains a blank (#) or fill character (|)
- 03 - Color
- 04 - Physical medium
- 05 - Type of reproduction
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When field 007/00 contains code f, it contains special coded information
about the physical aspects of material that is intended to be read by touch.
Character Positions
- 00 - Category of material
- 01 - Specific material designation
Indicates the special class of
tactile material to which the item belongs.
- d - Tactile, with no writing system
- 02 - Undefined
Each contains a blank (#) or fill character (|)
- 03-04 - Class of braille writing
Indicates the family of braille to
which the item belongs. This is not the particular braille code, but the type
of braille code used, representing different types of written symbols. Up to
two braille types may be indicated, or the cataloging agency may choose to
encode only the predominant type. Multiple codes are coded in order of
predominance. If fewer than two codes are assigned, the codes are left
justified and unused positions contain blanks (#).
- # - No specified class of braille writing
- c - Mathematics and scientific braille
- m - Multiple braille types
- 05 - Level of contraction
Indicates whether contractions are used.
- 06-08 - Braille music format
A three-character code that indicates the
braille music format of the item. The music formats are the way measures,
sections, parts, and related information, such as words, are presented in
relation to each other. Up to three formats may be indicated, left justified
in order of predominance. If fewer than three codes are assigned, the codes
are left justified and unused positions contain blank (#). Three fill
characters are used when no attempt has been made to code this data element.
- # - No specified braille music format
- i - Spanner short form scoring
- 09 - Specific physical characteristics
- b - Jumbo or enlarged braille
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A two-dimensional representation intended to be projected without motion by
means of an optical device.
Character Positions
- 00 - Category of material
- 01 - Specific material designation
Indicates the special class of
projected graphic to which the item belongs.
- d - Filmslip
A short filmstrip that is not in a roll.
- s - Slide
Includes modern stereographs.
- 02 - Undefined
Each contains a blank (#) or fill character (|)
- 03 - Color
Indicates the color characteristics of the projected
graphic.
- a - One color
Does not include black.
- b - Black-and-white
Does not include tinted, toned, or stained
items.
- z - Other
Includes tinted, toned, or stained items.
- 04 - Base of emulsion
Indicates the type of material for the base of
the emulsion of the photonegative, filmstrip, slide, or transparency.
- k - Film base, other than safety film
- m - Mixed collection
The base of emulsion material varies for
different items in a collection.
- o - Paper
Any kind of cellulose-based paper.
- 05 - Sound on medium or separate
Indicates whether the sound is on or
is separate from the projected graphic.
- b - Sound separate from medium
The sound is on an accompanying
item.
- 06 - Medium for sound
Indicates the specific medium used to carry the
sound (whether the sound is on the projected graphic or separate) and the type
of sound playback required.
- a - Optical sound track on motion picture film
- b - Magnetic sound track on motion picture film
- c - Magnetic audio tape in cartridge
- e - Magnetic audio tape on reel
- f - Magnetic audio tape in cassette
- g - Optical and magnetic sound track on motion picture film
- 07 - Dimensions
Indicates the width or dimensions of the projected
graphic.
- b - Super 8 mm./single 8 mm.
- k - 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 in. or 6x6 cm.
- v - 8x10 in. or 21x26 cm.
- x - 10x10 in. or 26x26 cm.
- 08 - Secondary support material
Indicates the type of material of the
mount of a slide or transparency.
- m - Mixed collection
The secondary support material varies for
different items in a collection.
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A transparent or opaque medium bearing microimages that are too small to be
read without magnification. A microform may be an original publication or a
reproduction of existing textual or graphic material.
Character Positions
- 00 - Category of material
- 01 - Specific material designation
Indicates the special class of
microform to which the item belongs.
- z - Other
Includes microforms such as microchips, microdots, and
microform scrolls.
- 02 - Undefined
Each contains a blank (#) or fill character (|)
- 03 - Positive/negative aspect
Indicates the positive/negative polarity
of the microform.
- a - Positive
Dark lines and characters against a light
background.
- b - Negative
Light lines and characters against a dark
background.
- m - Mixed polarity
Mixture of positive and negative images.
- 04 - Dimensions
Indicates the dimensions of the microform, not the
dimensions of the image.
- p - 3 1/4 x 7 3/8 in. or 9x19 cm.
- 05 - Reduction ratio range
Indicates the reduction ratio range of the
microform. The specific reduction is recorded in 007/06-08 (Reduction ratio).
- a - Low reduction
Less than 16:1 ratio (less than 016).
- b - Normal reduction
Between 16:1 and 30:1 (016-030).
- c - High reduction
Between 31:1 and 60:1 (031-060).
- d - Very high reduction
Between 61:1 and 90:1 (061-090).
- e - Ultra high reduction
Over 90:1 (over 090).
- v - Reduction rate varies
- 06-08 - Reduction ratio
The specific reduction ratio of the microform,
recorded as three digits. The number is right justified and each unused
position contains a zero. A hyphen is used for any unknown portion of the
reduction ratio.
- 09 - Color
Indicates the color of the image.
- b - Black-and-white (or monochrome)
A single hue. Includes all
microopaques.
- m - Mixed
Combination of color and monochrome images.
- 10 - Emulsion on film
Indicates the type of light-sensitive material on
the film.
- n - Not applicable
Used for microopaques.
- 11 - Generation
Indicates the generation of the microform.
- a - First generation (master)
The camera master or COM recorder
master.
- b - Printing master
Any generation used mainly for the production of
other microforms.
- c - Service copy
A microform that is intended primarily for use
rather than for the production of other microforms. This code is used for
microopaques.
- 12 - Base of film
Indicates the base of the film.
- a - Safety base, undetermined
- c - Safety base, acetate undetermined
- d - Safety base, diacetate
- p - Safety base, polyester
- r - Safety base, mixed
Mixed safety base films spliced together; no
nitrate film.
- t - Safety base, triacetate
- m - Mixed base (nitrate and safety)
- n - Not applicable
A microform on a reflective rather than a
transparent base (e.g., microopaques).
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A two-dimensional pictorial representation not intended to be projected for
viewing.
Character Positions
- 00 - Category of material
- 01 - Specific material designation
Indicates the special class of
nonprojected graphic to which the item belongs.
- f - Photomechanical print
- i - Picture
Used when a more specific designation is unknown or not
desired.
- z - Other
Includes mixed media productions made by a combination of
free hand and printing techniques, neither of which predominates.
- 02 - Undefined
Each contains a blank (#) or fill character (|)
- 03 - Color
Indicates the color characteristics of the nonprojected
graphic.
- a - One color
Does not include black.
- z - Other
Includes stained, tinted, or toned items.
- 04 - Primary support material
Indicates the type of material used for
the support or base on which an image is printed or executed.
- c - Cardboard/illustration board
- e - Synthetic
Does not include synthetics formed to resemble
textiles.
- f - Skin
Does not include synthetic materials that resemble
skin.
- g - Textile
Includes all natural or synthetic fibre fabrics except
canvas.
- m - Mixed collection
The primary support material varies for
different items in a collection.
- o - Paper
Any kind of cellulose-based paper.
- p - Plaster
Includes mixtures of ground solids and plaster.
- r - Porcelain
Used only for clay-based porcelain.
- t - Wood
Includes particle board, but may or may not include other
materials based on wood particles or fibers.
- 05 - Secondary support material
Indicates the type of material to which
the primary support is attached.
- c - Cardboard/illustration board
- e - Synthetic
Does not include synthetics formed to resemble
textiles.
- f - Skin
Does not include synthetic materials that resemble
skin.
- g - Textile
Includes all natural or synthetic fibre fabrics except
canvas.
- m - Mixed collection
The primary support material varies for
different items in a collection
- o - Paper
Any kind of cellulose-based paper.
- p - Plaster
Includes mixtures of ground solids and plaster.
- r - Porcelain
Used only for clay-based porcelain.
- t - Wood
Includes particle board, but may or may not include other
materials based on wood particles or fibers.
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A series of still pictures on film, with or without sound, designed to be
projected in rapid succession to produce the optical effect of motion.
Character Positions
- 00 - Category of material
- 01 - Specific material designation
Indicates the special class of
motion picture to which the item belongs.
- r - Film reel
Includes sound track film that accompanies visual
images actually not present.
- 02 - Undefined
Each contains a blank (#) or fill character (|)
- 03 - Color
Indicates the color characteristics of the motion picture.
- n - Not applicable
The item has no images.
- 04 - Motion picture presentation format
Indicates the presentation
format of the motion picture.
- a - Standard sound aperture (reduced frame)
Non-wide-screen
format.
- b - Nonanamorphic (wide-screen)
Wide-screen effect without optically
compressing the image or requiring the use of special projection
techniques.
- d - Anamorphic (wide-screen)
- e - Other wide-screen format
- f - Standard silent aperture (full frame)
35 mm. film on which the
exposed picture is approximately the width of the space between the
perforation holes of the frame.
- 05 - Sound on medium or separate
Indicates whether the sound is on or
is separate from the motion picture.
- b - Sound separate from medium
- 06 - Medium for sound
Indicates the specific medium used to carry the
sound (whether that sound is carried on the item itself or
is in the form of accompanying material) and the type of sound playback
required.
- a - Optical sound track on motion picture film
- b - Magnetic sound track on motion picture film
- c - Magnetic audio tape in cartridge
- e - Magnetic audio tape on reel
- f - Magnetic audio tape in cassette
- g - Optical and magnetic sound track on motion picture film
- 07 - Dimensions
Indicates the width of the motion picture film.
- b - Super 8 mm./single 8 mm.
- 08 - Configuration of playback channels
Indicates the configuration of
intended playback channels for the sound of the motion picture.
- k - Mixed
More than one configuration on a single motion
picture.
- n - Not applicable
Film has no sound or sound is on separate
medium.
- q - Quadraphonic, multichannel, or surround
- 09 - Production elements
Indicates whether the film is part of a
complete production or is a preliminary or post-production element.
- a - Workprint
A print from the original camera footage that is edited
to achieve a final version.
- b - Trims
Sections of shots remaining after selections have been
incorporated into a workprint.
- c - Outtakes
Discarded shots.
- d - Rushes
First positive print of a previous day's shooting.
- e - Mixing tracks
Separate sound tracks that are combined for the
final film sound track.
- f - Title bands/intertitle rolls
Printed captions or titles separated
from their corresponding pictures.
- g - Production rolls
Various types of production elements before they
are cut and assembled into reels.
- 10 - Positive/negative aspect
Indicates whether the film is positive or
negative.
- a - Positive
The colors and/or tonal values are the same as the
original subject matter.
- b - Negative
For black-and-white film, the tonal values are the
opposite of the original subject matter. For color film, they are the
complements of the original subject.
- 11 - Generation
Indicates how far away from the original material the
item is. Generation data are used to evaluate the quality of available copies,
to make preservation decisions, and to identify materials available for
viewing and research.
- r - Reference print/viewing copy
- 12 - Base of film
Indicates the base of the film.
- a - Safety base, undetermined
- c - Safety base, acetate undetermined
- d - Safety base, diacetate
- p - Safety base, polyester
- r - Safety base, mixed
Mixed safety base films spliced together; no
nitrate film.
- t - Safety base, triacetate
- m - Mixed base (nitrate and safety)
- n - Not applicable
The item does not have a film base (e.g., paper
film).
- 13 - Refined categories of color
Indicates more specific color
characteristics of the moving image than are contained in 007/03 (Color).
- b - 2 color, single strip
- 14 - Kind of color stock or print
Indicates the type of color film
stock or color print the item represents.
- a - Imbibition dye transfer prints
- c - Three layer stock, low fade
- 15 - Deterioration stage
Indicates the level of deterioration of the
film.
- b - Nitrate: suspicious odor
- c - Nitrate: pungent odor
- d - Nitrate: brownish, discoloration, fading, dusty
- f - Nitrate: frothy, bubbles, blisters
- k - Non-nitrate: detectable deterioration (diacetate odor)
- l - Non-nitrate: advanced deterioration
- m - Non-nitrate: disaster
- 16 - Completeness
Indicates whether the motion picture is judged to be
complete.
- 17-22 - Film inspection date
Six characters that indicate the most
recent film inspection date; the date is recorded in the pattern
ccyymm (century/year/month). A hyphen is used for any unknown portion
of the date. Six fill characters (||||||) are used if no attempt is made to
code these character positions.
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Indicates that the item is a kit, which is defined as a mixture of various
components issued as a unit and intended primarily for instructional purposes.
No one component is identifiable as the predominant component of the item.
Character Positions
- 00 - Category of material
- 01 - Specific material designation
Indicates the special class of
textual material to which an item belongs.
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Indicates that the item is a notated music, which is defined as graphic,
non-realized representations of musical works, both in printed and digitized
manifestations. It includes musical scores and/or parts, diagrammatic
representations, tablature, instructions for chance compositions, pictures or
paintings intended as musical compositions, square note notation, klavirskribo,
chant notation, neumes, braille, and other ways of representing the four
components of musical sound: pitch, duration, timbre, and loudness.
Character Positions
- 00 - Category of material
- 01 - Specific material designation
Indicates the special class of
textual material to which an item belongs.
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Indicates that the item is a remote-sensing image which is defined as an
image produced by a recording device that is not in physical or intimate contact
with the object under study. This may be a map or other image that is obtained
through various remote sensing devices such as cameras, computers, lasers, radio
frequency receivers, radar systems, sonar, seismographs, gravimeters,
magnetometers, and scintillation counters.
Character Positions
- 00 - Category of material
- 01 - Specific material designation
Indicates the special class of
material, usually the class of physical object, to which an item belongs.
- 02 - Undefined
Each contains a blank (#) or fill character (|)
- 03 - Altitude of sensor
Indicates the general position of the sensor
relative to the object under study.
- 04 - Attitude of sensor
Indicates the general angle of the device from
which a remote-sensing image is made.
- 05 - Cloud cover
Indicates the amount of cloud cover that was present
when a remote-sensing image was made.
- 06 - Platform construction type
Indicates the type of construction of
the platform serving as the base for the remote-sensing device. For the
purposes of this data element, "platform" refers to any structure that serves
as a base, not only flat surfaces.
- b - Aircraft--low altitude
- c - Aircraft--medium altitude
- d - Aircraft--high altitude
- g - Land-based remote-sensing device
- h - Water surface-based remote-sensing device
- i - Submersible remote-sensing device
- 07 - Platform use category
Indicates the primary use intended for the
platform specified in 007/06 (Platform construction type).
- 08 - Sensor type
Indicates the recording mode of the remote-sensing
device, specifically, whether the sensor is involved in the creation of the
transmission it eventually measures.
- 09-10 - Data type
A two-character code that indicates the spectral,
acoustic, or magnetic characteristics of the data received by the device
producing the remote-sensing image. It can be used to indicate both the wave
length of radiation measured and the type of sensor used to measure it.
- de - Shortwave infrared (SWIR)
- ga - Sidelooking airborne radar (SLAR)
- gb - Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)-Single frequency
- gc - SAR-multi-frequency (multichannel)
- gd - SAR-like polarization
- ge - SAR-cross polarization
- gu - Passive microwave mapping
- gz - Other microwave data
- jv - Ultraviolet combinations
- jz - Other ultraviolet data
- ma - Multi-spectral, multidata
- mm - Combination of various data types
- pb - Sonar--bottom topography images, sidescan
- pc - Sonar--bottom topography, near surface
- pd - Sonar--bottom topography, near bottom
- pz - Other acoustical data
- ra - Gravity anomalies (general)
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A disc, tape, film, cylinder, or wire on which sound vibrations have been
registered so that the sound may be reproduced; and paper rolls on which the
notes of a music composition are represented by perforations in the paper and
from which sound can be mechanically produced.
Character Positions
- 00 - Category of material
- 01 - Specific material designation
Indicates the special class of sound
recording to which the item belongs.
- 02 - Undefined
Each contains a blank (#) or fill character (|)
- 03 - Speed
Indicates the playback speed of the sound recording.
- 04 - Configuration of playback channels
Indicates the configuration of
playback channels for the sound recording.
- 05 - Groove width/groove pitch
Indicates the width of the groove of the
recording for a disc or the pitch of the groove for a cylinder.
- 06 - Dimensions
Indicates the diameter of an open reel or disc, or the
dimensions of a cassette, cartridge, or cylinder.
- 07 - Tape width
Indicates the width of a tape.
- 08 - Tape configuration
Indicates the number of tracks on a tape.
- 09 - Kind of disc, cylinder or tape
Indicates the type of disc,
cylinder, or tape.
- a - Master tape
The final tape production master that is used to make
a disc master or a tape duplication master.
- b - Tape duplication master
A sound tape produced from the master
tape.
- d - Disc master (negative)
A negative disc master that is used for
the preparation of the mother from which more serviceable and longer lasting
metal stampers can be made.
- i - Instantaneous (recorded on the spot)
- m - Mass produced
Includes discs or tapes issued as limited pressing
or limited issue for private distribution.
- r - Mother (positive)
An exact copy of the original disc recording
pressed from the disc master from which a negative metal stamper is made to
press discs for distribution.
- s - Stamper (negative)
A negative metal part, produced from the
mother in an electroplating procedure, from which 500 to 750 discs may be
pressed.
- t - Test pressing
Either one finished disc or one of a very limited
pressing designed to be examined aurally before a decision is made to
proceed with a pressing.
- u - Unknown
Also used when it cannot be determined whether the item
is instantaneous or mass-produced.
- 10 - Kind of material
Indicates the kind of material used in the
manufacture of the disc or the cylinder (both instantaneous and
mass-produced).
- 11 - Kind of cutting
Indicates the kind of cutting used to make the
grooves used on a disc.
- h - Hill-and-dale cutting
A vertical cutting; no lateral information
intended for reproduction.
- l - Lateral or combined cutting
- n - Not applicable
Includes compact audio discs (they are pitted
rather than cut).
- 12 - Special playback characteristics
Indicates the playback
characteristics for the sound recording, including special equipment or
equalization necessary for proper playback. The code is not used to indicate
special processes used during the making of the recording unless those
processes must be applied during playback.
- a - NAB standard
National Association of Broadcasters playback
equalization is required.
- b - CCIR standard
Comit‚ consultatif de la radiodiffusion playback
equalization is required.
- 13 - Capture and storage technique
Indicates how the sound was
originally captured and stored. A re-released recording is coded for the
original capture and storage technique.
- a - Acoustical capture, direct storage
Usually, a disc or cylinder
recording, captured using an acoustical horn and diaphragm and stored
directly on a master surface (most date from before 1927/29).
- b - Direct storage, not acoustical
A disc recording captured using
electrical equipment and stored directly on a master surface. All recordings
made with microphones and other electrical equipment prior to the
availability of magnetic recording techniques in the late l940s used direct
storage.
- d - Digital storage
A sound recording which was captured electrically
and stored using digital techniques.
- e - Analog electrical storage
A sound recording which was captured
using electrical techniques and stored as modulations and pulses on a
magnetic surface. Most recordings made from the late 1940s until the early
1980s are analog electrical recordings.
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Eye-readable printed or manuscript material.
Character Positions
- 00 - Category of material
- 01 - Specific material designation
Indicates the special class of
textual material to which an item belongs.
- d - Text in looseleaf binder
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A recording on which visual images, usually in motion and accompanied by
sound, have been registered, and which are designed for playback on a television
receiver or video monitor.
Character Positions
- 00 - Category of material
- 01 - Specific material designation
Indicates the special class of
videorecording to which an item belongs.
- 02 - Undefined
Each contains a blank (#) or fill character (|)
- 03 - Color
Indicates the color characteristics of a videorecording.
- n - Not applicable
The item has no images, e.g., a videorecording
with sound only.
- 04 - Videorecording format
Indicates the videotape or videodisc
recording format.
- a - Beta (1/2 in., videocassette)
- b - VHS (1/2 in., videocassette)
- c - U-matic (3/4 in., videocassette)
- f - Quadruplex (1 in. or 2 in., reel)
- h - CED (Capacitance Electronic Disc) videodisc
- i - Betacam (1/2 in., videocassette)
- j - Betacam SP (1/2 in., videocassette)
- k - Super-VHS (1/2 in., videocassette)
- m - M-II (1/2 in., videocassette)
- o - D-2 (3/4 in., videocassette)
- 05 - Sound on medium or separate
Indicates whether the sound is on or
is separate from the videorecording.
- b - Sound separate from medium
- 06 - Medium for sound
Indicates the specific medium used to carry the
sound (whether the sound is on the videorecording or separate) and the type of
sound playback required.
- a - Optical sound track on motion picture film
- b - Magnetic sound track on motion picture film
- c - Magnetic audio tape in cartridge
- e - Magnetic audio tape on reel
- f - Magnetic audio tape in cassette
- g - Optical and magnetic sound track on motion picture film
- 07 - Dimensions
Indicates the width of the videorecording.
- 08 - Configuration of playback channels
Indicates the configuration of
intended playback channels for the sound portion of the videorecording.
- k - Mixed
More than one configuration on a single
videorecording.
- n - Not applicable
Videorecording has no sound or sound is on
separate medium.
- q - Quadraphonic, multichannel, or surround
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The physical form of the described item is not identified by any other 007
category-of-material code. This category is also used for an item having
multiple physical forms that are not identified in separate 007 fields.
Character Positions
- 00 - Category of material
- 01 - Specific material designation
Indicates the special class of
material to which the item belongs.
- m - Multiple physical forms
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