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545  Biographical or Historical Data (R)

Input Standards

Required if applicable/Optional
1st Indicator  Type of data
blank character  No information provided
0 Biographical sketch
1 Administrative history
2nd Indicator  Undefined
blank character  Undefined
Subfields (R=Repeatable  NR=Nonrepeatable) Input Standards
‡a Biographical or historical data (NR) Mandatory/Mandatory
‡b Expansion (NR) Optional/Optional
‡u Uniform Resource Identifier (R) Optional/Optional


Definition

 A note with biographical information about an individual or historical information about an institution or event used as the main entry.

1st Indicator

 Type of data. A value that identifies the type of data in the field.
blank character No information provided. The value that indicates that information is not provided as to the type of data in the field.
545 Active from March 15, 1905 until April 17, 1989.
0 Biographical sketch. A biographical sketch.
545 0 Born Kingston, N.Y., April 4, 1856; worked at J.J. Bufford's Lith. in Boston, 1890-1895.
1 Administrative history. An administrative history of an organization.
545 1 The Office of Geography provided research and other staff services for the interdepartmental Board on Geographic Names and the Secretary of the Interior on foreign geographic nomenclature.

2nd Indicator

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

Subfields
‡a Biographical or historical data

A brief note providing biographical information about an individual. Use subfield ‡a also for historical and administrative information relating to an organization.

545 Author and reformer. Born Harriet Elizabeth Beecher. Married (1836) Calvin Ellis Stowe (1802-1886).
‡b Expansion

An expansion of the biographical or historical note given in subfield ‡a.

545 1 The Office of Geography provides research and other staff services for the interdepartmental Board on Geographic Names and the Secretary of the Interior on foreign geographic nomenclature. ‡ b The Office inherited functions and records of earlier boards and committees engaged in similar work. The earliest of these, the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, was created by an Executive order of September 4, 1890, to ensure uniform usage throughout the executive departments of the Government...
‡u Uniform Resource Identifier The Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that provides electronic access data in a standard syntax. Use for automated access to an electronic item using one of the Internet protocols or by resolution of a URN. Repeat subfield if digital object has multiple identifiers (URIs).

Substituting hexadecimal notation for diacritics and special characters in Uniform Resource Identifiers. When recording a URI in subfield ‡u, you may enter most of the spacing characters listed below as either characters or their hexidecimal equivalents. Consult the table below.

Note: Do not confuse the spacing characters listed below with their long-valid non-spacing counterparts. Use of the spacing characters will be limited almost exclusively to URLs.

Entry method Name Character Alternative entry (hex value)



Enter as character or hex value		 Spacing circumflex/circumflex accent ^ %5E
Spacing underscore/low line 1  _ %5F
Spacing grave/grave accent ` %60
Spacing tilde/tilde ~ %7E
vertical bar (client only) | %7C
Enter as hex value only vertical bar (browser only) n/a %7C

1  Because the Spacing Underscore may cause problems with MARC output, users may prefer to continue entering it with the hexidecimal value %5F.


Printing

 Field 545 prints as a note. Subfields ‡b and ‡u do not print. See " 5xx Introduction" for more information.

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