381  Other Distinguishing Characteristics of Work or Expression (R)

Definition

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.

Multiple characteristics from the same source vocabulary may be recorded in the same field in separate occurrences of subfield ǂa. Terms from different source vocabularies are recorded in separate occurrences of the field.

For information on punctuation, see the Punctuation section below.

1st Indicator

Undefined. The 1st indicator position is undefined and contains a blank.

2nd Indicator

Undefined. The 2nd indicator position is undefined and contains a blank.

Subfields

Punctuation

For records containing or omitting punctuation, follow these instructions:

• Include incidental punctuation needed within any subfields, e.g., commas, periods (following abbreviations or initials), etc.
• Omit punctuation preceding each subfield unless the preceding subfield ends with an ellipsis, exclamation point, hyphen, period (following an abbreviation or initial), question mark, closing bracket, or closing parenthesis
• Omit the terminal period at the end of the field unless the last word is an abbreviation or initial

For more information on punctuation, including OCLC policy, see section 2.8, Punctuation.

Indexing

For indexing and searching information, see Searching WorldCat Indexes, field 381.

MARC 21

For more information, including content designator history, see MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data, field 381.