Andrew Hankinson
Andrew Hankinson
The field labels for 500/510/551 on people, and the field labels for 700/710/551 on institutions differ. These should be made consistent. For people: - 500 is RELATED PERSONAL NAME -...
The 551 field (751 if looking to make this change after #1087 ) does not allow $i (relationship information) on institutions, but it does for people. This should be changed...
The MARC21 documentation on 5XX for authorities specifies that if `$i` or `$4` are used, then the `$w` field should have `r` in the first position of that field. This...
Person authorities use 500 (Related Personal Name), 510 (Associated Institution), 551 (Geographic name) Institution authorities use 700 (Person), 710 (Related institution), 551 (Place) ~~These should be made consistent and moved...
The 550 field is used on people to track "Profession or Function." However, 550 is a generic 'topical term' See Also From heading field, so this is not appropriate. This...
In Person records the `$y` subfield on the 856 field is given as the "Note about external resource", but MARC21 specifies `$y` as the "Link text" field. In the Source...
**Edit:** The decision (10.11.2021) is to implement this as an 008 field; see the discussion below. --- For RISM Online, we are parsing the `260 $c` statement to try and...
The 500 field allows for a $i value to determine what the relationship is between a person and another person, but the corresponding 510 for people to corporate bodies does...
Some legacy records have leading zeros attached to them, e.g., https://muscat.rism.info/admin/sources/403004441 Has in its 001 field: 00000403004441 The identifier with the leading zeros does not appear anywhere else: not in...
The 370 field in the Institution records does not seem to be connected to the place authority. It has fields for Country, Place of residence, or Other associated place, all...