COMARC/A Format for Authorities Data

PDFCOMARC/AMarch2018

215 Authorized access point – territorial or geographical name

This field contains a territorial or geographical name access point.

Territorial names alone or only with subject subdivisions as additions, which are used as subject access points, are considered territorial names (field 215). Territorial names alone, which are used as author access points, are considered corporate body names (field 210). Territorial names, which are followed by a corporate body subdivision and which are used as author access points or as subject access points, are also considered corporate body names.

Subfields & repeatability

FIELD/SUBFIELDREPEATABILITY
215Authorized access point – territorial or geographical namenr
aEntry elementnr
xTopical subdivisionr
zChronological subdivisionr
9Language of the base access pointnr

Indicators

Indicator values are not defined.

SUBFIELDS

Subfields x and z are described in the Subdivisions chapter, and subfield 9 in the Control Subfields chapter.

215a Entry element

The portion of the name used as the entry element in the access point that enables both searching and sorting within the catalogue. Subfield is mandatory.

NOTES ON FIELD CONTENTS

The field contains the preferred form of a territorial or geographical name formulated in accordance with the national descriptive cataloguing rules or subject system.

In the General List of Subject Headings (SGC), the topical and chronological subdivisions are used only in reference records.

RELATED FIELDS

415VARIANT ACCESS POINT – TERRITORIAL OR GEOGRAPHICAL NAME
515RELATED ACCESS POINT – TERRITORIAL OR GEOGRAPHICAL NAME
715AUTHORIZED ACCESS POINT IN OTHER LANGUAGE AND/OR SCRIPT – TERRITORIAL OR GEOGRAPHICAL NAME

EXAMPLES

  1. 215⊔⊔aUnited States xHistory
  2. 215⊔⊔aOntario xGuidebooks
  3. 215⊔⊔aOntario xHistory z1801-1900
  4. 215⊔⊔aRocky Mountains

  5. *

    215⊔⊔aIštarina vrata (Babilon)

  6. *

    152⊔⊔bsgc
    215⊔⊔aGlinje (Občina Braslovče, Slovenija)
    (Record for the place Glinje in the Savinjska Region.)
    152⊔⊔bsgc
    215⊔⊔aGlinje (Občina Cerklje na Gorenjskem, Slovenija)
    (Record for the place Glinje in the Gorenjska Region.)

  7. *

    152⊔⊔bsgc
    215⊔⊔aLuna

  8. *

    152⊔⊔bsgc
    215⊔⊔aKrka (Slovenija : vodotok)
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