COMARC/A Format for Authorities Data

PDFCOMARC/AApril2020

2XX AUTHORIZED ACCESS POINT BLOCK

FIELD LIST

200Authorized access point – personal name
210Authorized access point – corporate body name
215Authorized access point – territorial or geographical name
220Authorized access point – family name
230Authorized access point – title
240Authorized access point – name/title
243Authorized access point – conventional name/title for legal and religious texts
250Authorized access point – topical subject
280Authorized access point – form, genre or physical characteristics

This block contains the access point for which the record is made. The access point will be an authorized access point if the record is an authority record, a variant access point if the record is a reference record, and an explanatory access point if the record is a general explanatory record.

Each record must contain one field from the 2XX block. The 2XX fields can only be repeated in COBISS systems, in which access points in different scripts are required.

The following control subfields are used in the 2XX fields:

7Script of the base access point
9Language of the base access point

The use of control subfields is described in the Control subfields chapter (before the 2XX block).