1-- Coded Information Block

Definition and Scope of Fields

This block contains coded fixed length data elements.

Fields

100 General processing data

101 Language of the item

102 Country of Publication or Production

105 Code data field: Textual material, monographic

106 Textual material - Physical attributes

110 Serials

115 Visual Projections, Videorecordings and Motion Pictures

116 Graphics

117 Three-Dimensional artefacts and realia

120 Cartographic Materials - General

121 Cartographic Materials: Physical attributes

122 Coded data field:Time period of item content

123 Cartographic Materials - Scale and Coordinates

124 Cartographic Materials - Specific material designation analysis

125 Sound Recordings and Printed Music

126 Sound Recordings - Physical attributes

127 Duration of sound recordings and printed music

128 Music performances and scores

130 Microforms - Physical Attributes

131 Cartographic Materials - Geodetic, grid and vertical measurement

135 Electronic resources

140 Antiquarian - General

141 Antiquarian - Copy specific attributes

Notes on Field Contents

Data in these fields is defined in terms of the position of the character, counting the first character following the subfield identifier as zero. If a bibliographic agency does not supply any coded information in a given field, the field will be omitted unless mandatory. If some data in a field is supplied but not all, the omitted data element positions will contain fill characters.