120 Coded Data Field: Gender (O;NR)

Field Definition and Scope

This field indicates the gender of a person in coded form.

Application of Content Designators

Indicators

both indicator positions are undefined and therefore left blank.

Subfields

$a Gender Code A one-character code that indicates the gender of the person described. The following codes may be used:

a	female
b	male
c	transgender
u	unknown
x	not applicable

Input Conventions

Instead of using code x it is recommended to skip this field altogether.

Mapping

For the creation of an RDF description, the following mapping is applied:

$a rdaGr2:gender only for code values a, b and u

rdaGr2 represents the namespace “http://rdvocab.info/ElementsGr2”
The RDA ontologies are registerd with the open metadata registry (http://metadataregistry.org/schema/show/id/15.html)
The vocabulary used is the RDA Gender list (http://metadataregistry.org/concept/list/vocabulary_id/101.html)

Mapping Example

<rdf:Description rdf:about="http://cttest.cerl.org/cnp00105412">
   <rdaGr2:gender rdf:resource="http://rdvocab.info/termList/gender/1002"/>
</rdf:Description>

Examples

120 ##$ab

Internal Representation

{"data": {"gender": "Coded gender information ($a)"}}

Change History

18.07.2017: Subfield $6 will no longer be supported, once the CT has been migrated into its new environment.