COMARC/B Format for Bibliographic Data

PDFCOMARC/BFebruary2021

964 Name and title used as subject (variant form)*

Field 964 contains a variant form of the subject heading for a name/title entered in field 604.

Subfields & repeatability

FIELD/SUBFIELDREPEATABILITY
964Name and title used as subject (variant form)*r
aNamenr
tTitlenr
xTopical subdivisionr
yGeographical subdivisionr
wForm subdivisionr
zChronological subdivisionr
2System codenr
6Linking datanr

Indicators

INDICATORVALUEMEANING
1Not defined
2Form of name indicator
Not a conventional name/title for legal and religious texts
1Conventional name/title for legal and religious texts entered under country or other geographical name
2Conventional name/title for legal and religious texts entered under other form

The second indicator is entered only for subject headings for a conventional name/title for legal and religious texts. Value "1" is used for geographical names under jurisdiction, whereas value "2" is used for names of churches.

SUBFIELDS

Instructions described at field 604 are valid for all subfields (see field 604).

NOTES ON FIELD CONTENTS

This field is used for entering variant forms of those subject headings that are not linked to authority records. Enter the forms that differ from the form in field 604. The search is simultaneously performed through fields 604 and 964.

The subfield 6 – Linking data must always be filled in, since it is used to link all forms of a subject heading (see examples 1, 2). Field 604 is linked to a corresponding field 964 by entering the same number (01–99) in subfield 6 of both fields. If more than one field 964 corresponds to a field 604, enter the same number in subfield 6 of all corresponding 964 fields.

RELATED FIELDS

604NAME AND TITLE USED AS SUBJECT
Authorized form of the subject heading from field 964.

EXAMPLES

  1. *

    604⊔⊔aShakespeare, William, 1564-1616 tHamlet 601
    964⊔⊔aShakespeare, William, 1564-1616 tHamlet, danski princ 601
  2. *

    604⊔⊔aHerberstein, Žiga, 1486-1566 tRerum Moscoviticarum commentarii 601
    964⊔⊔aHerberstein, Žiga, 1486-1566 tMoscovia 601