Term and Code List for RDA Media Types
List identifier: rdamedia
This list contains Resource Description and Access (RDA) terms and corresponding one-character lower case alphabetic codes for RDA Media types. These types can be recorded in MARC Bibliographic and Holdings records in textual form and/or in the one-character coded form in MARC field 337 (Media Type). They may also be recorded, sometimes in a more granular and sometimes in a more general form, with one-character codes in MARC 007/00 (Category of material), in most cases. In the following, the one-character codes and terms for field 337, subfields $b and $a, respectively, are listed along with the corresponding 007 codes.
The source code for this list in field 337 $2 (Source) is rdamedia.
Code List
RDA
media terms |
MARC
codes for RDA terms |
MARC
media codes |
audio |
s |
s - sound recording |
computer |
c |
c - electronic resource |
microform |
h |
h - microform |
microscopic |
p |
|
projected |
g |
g - projected graphic m - motion picture |
stereographic |
e |
|
unmediated |
n |
t - text k - non-projected graphic |
video |
v |
v - videorecording |
other |
x |
z - unspecified |
unspecified |
z |
z - unspecified |
Source: http://www.loc.gov/standards/valuelist/rdamedia.html - April 5, 2011
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