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987 Local Romanization/Conversion History (R)

Record Type
BIB
Input Standards
Field (Full/Minimal)
Required if applicable/Required if applicable
1st Indicator Undefined
	Undefined
2nd Indicator Undefined
	Undefined
Subfields (R=Repeatable NR=Nonrepeatable)		Input Standards (Full/Minimal)
ǂa	Romanization/conversion identifier (NR)	Required if applicable/Required if applicable
ǂb	Agency that converted, created or reviewed romanization/conversion (NR)	Required if applicable/Required if applicable
ǂc	Date of conversion or review (NR)	Optional/Optional
ǂd	Status code (NR)	Required if applicable/Required if applicable
ǂe	Version of conversion program used (NR)	Optional/Optional
ǂf	Note (NR)	Optional/Optional

Definition

Information about the conversion of romanized Chinese data from the Wade-Giles to the Pinyin romanization schemes. Field 987 has been defined for local use by the participants in the Pinyin Conversion Project. It has been implemented by the local library systems of the Library of Congress, OCLC, RLG and others.

Field 987 may be either system-supplied or originate from manual input.

If manually input, add field 987 to all records that contain romanized Chinese data using the Pinyin romanization scheme. If a record contains field 987, that record will not be converted by a conversion program. Adding field 987 to a record, therefore, eliminates the potential for erroneous conversion.

For information on punctuation, see the Punctuation section below.

1st Indicator

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

	Undefined

2nd Indicator

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

	Undefined

Subfields

ǂa Romanization/conversion identifier

The word PINYIN.

ǂb Agency that converted, created or reviewed romanization/conversion

The MARC Organization Code of the institution performing the manual romanization/conversion/review of the record. See MARC Code List for Organizations or your institution's primary record in the OCLC Policies Directory (Additional Symbols field).

Note: Do not use the OCLC institution symbol in this field.

ǂc Date of conversion or review

The date of the conversion or review. Use the following format: yyyymmdd.

Note: Do not use for new records.

ǂd Status code

The status of the converted record. Use one of the following codes:

c	Record fully romanized by conversion or cataloger input
n	Record processed but not converted–no eligible strings detected
r	Record requires manual review to fully convert romanization

987			PINYIN ǂb DLC-R ǂd c
[Record was created by an LC cataloger during the transition and following pinyin rules]

987			PINYIN ǂb DLC-R ǂc 20001010 ǂd c
[Record was reviewed and status was changed from r to c by an LC cataloger]

Note: Use only Status code c for new and manually converted records.

ǂe Version of conversion program used

The version of the conversion program used.

Note: Do not use for manual input.

ǂf Note

A free text note about the status of the conversion of the record.

987			PINYIN ǂb CStrRLIN ǂc 20000619 ǂd c ǂe 1.0 ǂf [Note on conversion status]
[Record's romanization was fully altered by a program]

987			PINYIN ǂb OCoLC ǂc 20000324 ǂd n ǂe 1.0 ǂf [Note on conversion status]
[Record was reviewed by OCLC pinyin conversion software]

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

987

PINYIN ǂb DLC-R ǂc 20001010 ǂd c

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

Indexing

Field 987 is not indexed.

MARC 21

Field 987 is OCLC-defined and therefore not included in MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data.

This page last revised: August 27, 2020

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