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Record dates in the ISO 8601 extended format, i.e. YYYY-MM-DD. Dates may be truncated to a month (YYYY-MM) or a year (YYYY).
Birth
Death
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Creation class
e.g. text, music, audiovisual, choreographic, software, art works (per info pop-up)
Per email from ISNI QT in June 2017, use 2 letter codes from MARC 21 leader/06 and leader/07 (http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bdleader.html), for example
- am = language material, monograph (use for books)
- gm = projected material, monograph (use for films)
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Use drop-down list. Some terms duplicate or overlap with others.
There are multiple terms beginning with "film." For many names in the HFA project, "filmmaker" is sufficient.
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Work
Title
Record the title(s) of works created by the person as found in the Harvard source, such as a spreadsheet from the HFA project. Includes initial articles if present. Do not seek out additional titles; the intent is not to create a bibliography.
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See field information under Name.
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Related person
May include co-authors, co-performers, co-directors, pseudonyms, real names, collaborators.
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See field information under Related person.
Warning: under certain circumstances, after adding a related person or organization, you can get an error message that a name is required when you save the record, even though you had added the name. Go back and fill in the name again and save the record.
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Language
3-letter code from ISO 639-2 Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages, e.g. "eng" for English. For languages that have two such codes, use the "bibliographic" code, e.g. use "ger" for German.
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Enter 2-letter code from ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 e.g. "US" for United States.
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External information
May be used for web pages that have more information about the person.
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Uniform Resource Identifier of the web page with the information.
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General note
Messages for the ISNI quality team, such as information that should be deleted from a record, records that should be merged or separated, etc. It is not necessary to add identifier and name to the record before adding a general note.
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See field information under Related person.
Warning: under certain circumstances, after adding a related person or organization, you can get an error message that a name is required when you save the record, even though you had added the name. Go back and fill in the name again and save the record.
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See field information under Related person.
Warning: under certain circumstances, after adding a related person or organization, you can get an error message that a name is required when you save the record, even though you had added the name. Go back and fill in the name again and save the record.
Work
See field information under Work.
Creation class
See field information under Creation class.
Creation role
See field information under Creation role.
Language
See field information under Language.
External information
See field information under External information.
General note
See field information under General note.