| COMARC/A | March | 2018 |
This field identifies the agency responsible for the creation of the record and the date of the entry. The field is repeatable to show the transcribing, modifying or issuing agency. The date for new records is the date of the creation of the entry. For revised records, the date recorded is the date of the last revision.
| INDICATOR | VALUE | MEANING |
| 1 | Not defined | |
| 2 | Function performed by the agency | |
| 0 | original cataloguing agency | |
| 1 | transcribing agency | |
| 2 | modifying agency | |
| 3 | issuing agency |
The code of the country of the issuing agency. The country is coded according to the ISO 3166 standard.
In many cases the same agency will have carried out some or all indicated functions. The field should be repeated only when there are changes to transaction dates, cataloguing rules or formats. Where there are no changes, only the earliest occurrence of the field should be included.
| 100 | GENERAL PROCESSING DATA |
801 ⊔0 aUS bDLC c19800516 801 ⊔3 aGB bbl c19831121 801 ⊔0 aFR bFR-693836101 c20070215 (Authority record created by the Bibliothèque nationale de France.) 801 ⊔0 aRU bNLR c19961109 *
801 ⊔0 ausa bNNHWW 801 ⊔1 ausa bNNHWW c19821215 801 ⊔2 asvn bSI-MaIIZ (The first two fields contain the code for the agency that is responsible for the cataloguing and transcribing of the record. The last field contains the code for the agency that modified the record.)