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381 - Other Distinguishing Characteristics of Work or Expression (R)


MARC 21 Authority - concise
December 2025

Any characteristic that is not accommodated in a special field that serves to characterize a work or expression. Examples are an issuing body, arranged statement of music, version, or a geographic term. May be used to differentiate a work from another work with the same title.

Indicators

First - Undefined
# - Undefined
Second - Undefined
# - Undefined

Subfield Codes

$a - Other distinguishing characteristic (R)
$i - Relationship information (R)
$u - Uniform Resource Identifier (R)
$v - Source of information (R)
$0 - Authority record control number or standard number (R)
See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.
$1 - Real World Object URI (R)
See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.
$2 - Source of term (NR)
Code from: Subject Heading and Term Source Codes.
$4 - Relationship (R)
$6 - Linkage (NR)
See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.
$7 - Data provenance (R)
See description of this subfield in Appendix H: Data Provenance Subfields.
$8 - Field link and sequence number (R)
See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.

Examples

381 ##$aSouth African Law Commission
381 ##$aDouglas
381 ##$aAuthorized
381 ##$aarranged
381 ##$aA-text
381 ##$iTranslator:$aBuckley$4http://rdaregistry.info/Elements/u/P60385
381 ##$iAward received:$aAcademy Award for Best Picture$2wikidata/eng$s2023$4http://www.wikidata.org/entity/P166$1http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q102427
381 ##$iIssuing body:$aNevada Women's History Project$2naf$4isb$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/isb$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no00051099$1http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/no00051099

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