662 Subject Added Entry - Hierarchical Place Name

Field definition and scope:

Field 662 contains a hierarchical form of a geographic name used as a subject added entry. Subject added entries are assigned to a bibliographic record to provide access according to generally accepted cataloging and thesaurus-building rules.

The National level record requirement for this field is Mandatory if applicable.

Field 662 is repeatable.

Guidelines for applying content designators:

For indicator and subfield code definitions and examples, National-level (NLR) and Minimal-level (MLR) record requirements, and designator repeatability, see table below:

Position	Description	NLR	MLR	Repeatability
Field 662	Subject Added Entry - Hierarchical Place Name	A	O	R
Indicator:
First	Undefined; contains a blank	M
Second	Undefined; contains a blank	M

Subfield code:
$a	Country or larger entity	M	O	R
$b	First-order political jurisdiction	A	O	NR
$c	Intermediate political jurisdiction	A	O	R
$d	City	A	O	NR
$e	Relator term	O	O	R
$f	City subsection	A	O	R
$g	Other nonjurisdictional geographic region and feature	A	O	R
$h	Extraterrestrial area	A	O	R
$0	Authority record control number or standard number	O	O	R
$1	Real World Object URI			R
$2	Source of heading or term	A	O	NR
$4	Relationship	O	O	R
$6	Linkage	A	O	NR
$8	Field link and sequence number	O	O	R

Input conventions:

Subfield order

Content designator history:

Subfield $0 - Authority record control number [new, 2007]

Subfield $0 - Authority record control number [redefined, 2010]

Subfield $1 - Real World Object URI [new, 2017]

Subfield $4 - Relator code [renamed, 2017] [redescribed, 2017]: Subfield $4 was renamed to Relationship and redescribed to allow for the recording of relationship URIs in addition to MARC and non-MARC codes.