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INTERMARC Format

Some of the bibliographic services and products supplied by the BnF make it possible to download bibliographic and authority records in INTERMARC, i.e., in the format in which the BnF creates its data in the catalogue général de la BnF:

INTERMARC Bibliographic: List of fields

version 9, December 2008

Types of the records in which bibliographic data is supplied :
MON : Autonomous record for a monograph ; ANL : Analytical sub-record ; ENS : Record for a multi-volume monograph ; REC : Record for a collection ; PER : Record for a periodical ; COL : Record for a serie ; HIS : Record for historical information about a serial (mergings, splittings, etc.) ; SPE : Record for a performance.

Types of materials for which bibliographic data is supplied :
IMP: Printed text ; SON: Sound recording ; IA: Moving image ; MM: Multimedia kit ; INF: Electronic resource ; IF: Still image ; CP: cartographic resources ; MUS: Music ; MSM: Modern manuscript and archival item ; OBJ: Object ; SPE: Performance.

Fixed-length fields

Identifiers

Other coded information

Management of analytical records

Coded information subfields

Main entry headings

Descriptive information

Notes

Bibliographic links

Transcription fields

Indexing fields

Secondary headings

Commercial headings

Secondary title headings

Bibliographic links among serials

Other identifiers

Local information

Management

Thursday, May 12, 2011