SCIPIO
Revised 9/8/2009
Database name: SCIPIO
Short database name: SCIPIO
Available on: FirstSearch Production Server only
Why select this database?
- Only online list of auction catalog records in existence.
- Provides information to auction sales catalogs from all major North American and European auction houses as well as many private sales.
- Valuable source of information on art objects, rare books, history of collecting and contemporary and historical market trends.
- Catalogs for sales from the late sixteenth century to scheduled auctions not yet held.
- Records include the dates and places of sales, the auction houses, sellers, institutional holdings, and titles of works.
| Subjects included | |
|---|---|
| art objects | rare books |
| collection sets | rugs |
| estates | sketching |
| furniture | sculpture |
| jewelry | textiles |
| paintings | |
Coverage/update frequency
Includes catalogs from the late sixteenth century to scheduled auctions that have not yet been held
New records are added daily.
Record display information
List of FirstSearch fields for SCIPIO and the MARC fields to which they correspond.
The MARC records returned from this database will be the OCLC-MARC records as they were input into the system.
This database can have any valid MARC tag in it. Besides the valid MARC tags, the following FirstSearch Locally Defined fields also exist:
Bibliographic Records MARC Fields with Specialized Meaning in SCIPIO
| Field Name | MARC Field(s) |
|---|---|
| Bibliographic Records MARC Fields with Specialized Meaning in SCIPIO | |
| Sales code | 024/a |
| Date of sale in YYYYMMDD format | 033/a |
| Date of sale displayed as an English spelled-out date | 033/9 |
| Auction house | 110 |
| Commonly used note field | 518/a |
| Seller, or subject of auction | 600 |
| Seller, or subject of auction | 653/a |
| Auctioneer | 700 |
| Bibliographic Records MARC Fields | |
| Primary document type code | 945/f |
| Additional document type codes | 945/d |
| Number of holding library symbols connected to item | 947/m |
| Date added to a database | 947/n |
| Date last updated in Cataloging subsystem of WorldCat | 947/p |
| Indicator for My Library holdings. This indicates if authorization number's institution has local holdings attached in OCLC WorldCat. "Y" is yes. "N" is no. | 947/s |
| Library Holdings Field 948/a gives the ISO country code information for each library holding the item. Additional detailed holdings information is available in FirstSearch Z39.50 Configuration Guide - Element Set Names. | 948 |
| Document type "b" for book | 949/i |
| ILL/Display type "b" for book | 949/x |
Indexes
What follows is a list of FirstSearch indexes and the combination of USE and STRUCTURE attributes that can be used to access them.
- For any FirstSearch label where multiple USE attributes are listed all the attributes will provide the exact same search result sets.
- Any USE attribute that is not marked as a restrictor is available via the SCAN service.
- Restrictors are specially implemented indexes and are not available for scanning. Terms for these must be ANDed with other terms to limit the size of the result set. See the table provided for each restrictor to determine valid terms and their associated meaning.
FirstSearch Indexes and USE and STRUCTURE attributes used to access them. These are grouped by the type of record retrieved.
| Index | Description | Use Attribute | Structure Attribute | Indexed Fields and Subfields |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keyword (kw) | Any | 1016 | 2 | Fields found in the following indexes: Author keyword |
| Auction House (ah) | OCLC defined | 5060 | 1, 2 | 110/a-e,n,u |
| Author keyword (au) | Author-name | 1003 5003 | 2 | 100/a,b,c,d,j,q,u 110/a,b,c,d,e,n,u 111/a,c,d,e,n,q,u 245/c 505/r 508/a 511/a 550/a 700/a,b,c,d,j,q,u 710/a,b,c,d,e,n 711/a,c,d,e,n,q 720/a 770/a 773/a 780/a 785/a 787/a 800/a,b,c,d,q,u 810/a,b,c,d,e,n 811/a,c,d,e,n,q |
| Author Phrase (au=) | Author-name | 1003 5003 | 1 | 100/a,b,c,d,j,q 110/a,b,c,d,n 111/a,c,d,e,n,q 700/a,b,c,d,j,q 710/a,b,c,d,n 711/a,c,d,e,n,q 720/a |
| Citation index (ci) | OCLC defined | 5940 | 2 | 510/a,c |
| Date of Sale (ds)* | Date search | 1145 | 2, 5 | 033/a Only for data in YYYYMMDD format. DD or MMDD may be replaced with hyphens if unknown, e.g. 200604-- |
| Individual Auctioneer (ia) | OCLC defined | 5039 | 1, 2 | 700/a-d,j,q,u |
| Language (ln=)* | Code-language | 54 | 1, 2 | 008 <lang> 041/b,d,e,f,g,j 041/a if first indicator is zero |
| Place of Sale (ps) | OCLC defined | 5062 | 2 | 500/a 518/a Note: Only text preceded by Place of is indexed. |
| Seller/Subject (cx) | OCLC defined | 5063 | 1, 2 | 600/a-d,j,q 653/a |
| Standard Number (sn) | Identifier-standard | 1007 | 1,2 | 010/a,b,z 016/a,z 020/a,z 022/a,y,z 024/a 027/a,z 028/a 030/a,z 037/a 088/a 262/c 440/x 490/x 534/o,x,z 700/x 710/x 711/x 730/x 760/x,y,z 762/x,y,z 770/r,u,x,y,z 773/u,x,y,z 776/x,y,z 780/x,y,z 785/x,y,z 800/x 810/x 811/x 830/x |
| Subject (su, su=) | Subject | 21 | 1, 2 | 600/a,b,c,d,e,g,j,k,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,v,x,y,z 610/a,b,c,d,e,g,k,m,n,o,p,r,s,t,v,x,y,z 611/a,c,d,e,g,k,n,p,q,t,v,x,y,z 630/a,d,k,m,n,o,p,r,s,t,v,x,y,z 648/a,v,x,y,z 650/a,b,v,x,y,z 651/a,v,x,y,z 653/a 654/a,b,v,x,y,z 655/a,b,v,x,y,z |
| Subject All (sa=) | OCLC Defined | 5090 | 1 | 600/a,b,c,d,e,g,j,k,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,v,x,y,z 610/a,b,c,d,e,g,k,m,n,o,p,r,s,t,v,x,y,z 611/a,c,d,e,g,k,n,p,q,t,v,x,y,z 630/a,d,k,m,n,o,p,r,s,t,v,x,y,z 648/a,v,x,y,z 650/a,b,v,x,y,z 651/a,v,x,y,z 653/a 655/a,b,v,x,y,z |
| Title keyword (ti) | Title | 4 5245 1002 | 2 | 031/d,t 100/t 110/t 111/t 130/a,d,f,g,k,m,n,o,p,r,s,t 210/a 214/a 222/a,b 240/a,d,f,g,k,m,no,p,r,s 242/a,b,n,p 243/a,d,f,g,k,m,n,o,p,r,s 245/a,b,f,g,k,n,p 246/a,b,n,p 247/a,b,n,p 440/a,n,p 490/a 505/t 700/g,k,m,n,o,p,r,s,t 710/d,g,k,m,n,o,p,r,s,t 711/g,k,n,p,s,t 730/a,d,f,g,k,m,n,o,p,r,s,t 740/a,n,p 770/a,s,t 773/p,s,t 780/s,t 785/s,t 787/s,t 800/g,k,m,n,o,p,r,s,t 810/d,g,k,m,n,o,p,r,s,t 811/g,k,n,p,s,t 830/a,d,f,g,k,m,n,o,p,r,s,t,v |
| Title (ti=) | Title | 4 1002 5245 | 1 | 130/a,d,f,g,k,m,n,o,p,r,s,t 222/a,b 240/a,d,f,g,k,m,n,o,p,r,s 245/a,b,f,g,k,n,p* 246/a,b,n,p 505/t 730/a,d,f,g,k,m,n,o,p,r,s,t 740/a,n,p |
| Update Date (up) | Update date | 1012 | 2 | 008 |
| Year (yr) | Date-publication | 31 | 2,4,5,7 | 008 |
* Additional information on these indexes is given in the Searching Tips below.
Restrictors
The following restrictors can be used only in conjunction with an index search. They must be added to an index search with the Boolean AND in order to receive results:
| Restrictor | Type | Input | Use Attribute | Structure Attribute |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year (yr) | All years Single year Range of years | -- 1999, or 2000 -1899 1955-1967 1998- | 31 | 5 |
| Language Phrase* | No Limit English Danish Dutch French German Italian Spanish | -- english danish dutch french german italian spanish | 54 | 1 |
| Library Holdings (li) | all Library Symbol | -- xxx (OCLC symbol for the library)** | 56 1044 | 2 |
* Language Phrase is both an index and a restrictor.
**To find the OCLC symbol for an institution, please see the Find an OCLC Library Web site.
Sorting
Search results in the SCIPIO database can be sorted by Auction House(5060), Title (4), and Date of Sale (1145).
General punctuation rules
(exceptions are made, but these are generally correct):
| Punctuation | Rule | Punctuation | Rule |
|---|---|---|---|
| " | Delete and collapse | $ | Delete and collapse |
| ' | (apostrophe) Delete and collapse | % | Delete and collapse |
| . | Delete and collapse | * | Delete and collapse |
| , | (comma) Delete and collapse | + | Delete and collapse |
| ; | Delete and collapse | > | Delete and collapse |
| : | Delete and collapse | < | Delete and collapse |
| () | Delete and collapse | @ | Delete and collapse |
| <> | Delete and collapse | ? | Delete and collapse |
| {} | Delete and collapse | -- | Delete and collapse |
| [] | Delete and collapse | / | Substitute a space |
| = | Delete and collapse | - | Retain and index |
| ! | Delete and collapse | & | Retain and index |
| # | Delete and collapse | ||
Searching tips
Date of Sale (1145). The Date of Sale (use 1145) is the date the auction took place. It is searchable as a number index in the format of MMDDYYYY where MM is the month, DD is the date and YYYY is the year. This can be searched as:
MMYYYY
YYYY
Or it can be searched as a range in these formats:
MMYYYY-MMYYYY
YYYY-YYYY
Language (54). Language is searchable as using the three-letter codes of language found in the OCLC Marc Code List or using the two-character ISO codes for languages or using the English spelling of the Language code. The catalogs include many more languages then the top represented languages listed as restrictor suggestions.
Copyright
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