COMARC/A Format for Authorities Data

PDFCOMARC/AOctober2020

190 Date of birth/beginning*

This field is used in the authority records for personal names (date of birth) as well as corporate bodies and titles (date of beginning).

Subfields & repeatability

FIELD/SUBFIELDREPEATABILITY
190Date of birth/beginning*nr
aYearnr
bMonthnr
cDaynr

Indicators

INDICATORVALUEMEANING
1Exactness of date
0date is unknown
1date is known
2Date B.C. or A.D.
0date B.C.
1date A.D.

SUBFIELDS

190a Year

The year is entered in the format YYYY. When exact year, decade or century is unknown, a question mark is used in corresponding spaces.

190b Month

The month is entered in the format MM.

190c Day

The day is entered in the format DD.

EXAMPLES

  1. *

    19011a1946 b08 c02
    200⊔1aHorvat bSonja r03876
    (The year of the person's birth is known.)

  2. *

    19011a1867 b12 c03
    200⊔1aMilčinski bFran f1867-1932
    (The year of the person's birth is known.)

  3. *

    120⊔⊔ab ba
    152⊔⊔aPPIAK
    19001a1970
    200⊔1aKovačevič bMarijan
    (The year of the author's birth is unknown.)

  4. *

    152⊔⊔aPPIAK
    19010a0427
    200⊔0aPlato
    (The author was born in 427 B.C.)

  5. *

    152⊔⊔asgc
    19011a1717 b05 c13
    200⊔0aMarija Terezija cnemška cesarica f1717-1780
    (The year of the person's birth is known.)

  6. *

    152⊔⊔asgc
    19000a13??
    200⊔0aAmenofis dIV cfaraon f13..-1334? pr. n. št.
    (The year/decade of birth of the person, who lived in the 14th century B.C., is unknown.)

  7. *

    152⊔⊔aPPIAK
    19011a1993 b11 c01
    21002aEvropska unija
    (The year of founding of the corporate body is known.)

  8. *

    152⊔⊔bsgc
    19011a1847
    240⊔⊔aPrešeren, France tPoezije
    (Prešeren's Poezije was first published with the year 1847.)
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