This field contains the name of the place where a printer or publisher has been working, a corporate body has been active or a person has been born, died or lived. It can also contain a reference to a place the place described in the current record is related to.
Indicator 1: undefined (blank)
Indicator 2: Specifies the type of input:
$a Entry Element (M;NR)
Subfield $a contains the part of the name used as the entry element in a heading.
$d Address (O;NR)
Address as printed in the book.
$e Printer device used in conection with address (O;R)
Any graphical sign which is related to a printer's address given in $d.
Any device, which a printer used throughout different places or different addresses is filed in field 516.
$n Cataloguer's note (O;R)
Forming a pair with the preceding $8 subfield. Any cataloguer's comment on this category
$r Part of name other than entry element (O;R)
Remainder of the name, if given in a separate subfield in the source record.
$z Chronological subdivision (O;NR)
Used in conjunction with $a
Preferrred form of entry: yyyy-yyyy or yyyy- or -yyyy
$3 CERL Thesaurus record number (M;NR)
Record ID of the record to which the link points
$8 Language Code (O;R)
preceeding each subfield $n. see the description of numerical subfields.
$9 Temporary Data (O;NR)
see the description of numerical subfields.
$0 Type of Place (M;NR)
An indication of the type of the relationship between the entity described in the record and the place mentioned in this field. The following values are currently supported:
for personal names, imprint names and corporate names records
| brth | place of birth |
| deat | place of death |
| trad | place of trade |
| stud | place of study (university) |
| schl | place of school |
| teac | place of teaching (for university teachers, lecturers, professors etc) |
| resd | place of residence |
| dioc | see of a diocese/parish (for bishops, priests, ministers etc) |
| vist | place visited |
| actv | place of activity (other) |
for place records
| part | place is (today) part of another place |
| inst | see instead |
| relp | related place (default) |
inst should be used only in place name records that hold 3 in 110 Coded Data Field: Type of Name used as Standard Form (M;NR) subfield $a. part can only be used in place name records that hold 0 in 110 Coded Data Field: Type of Name used as Standard Form (M;NR) subfield $a.The places and addresses are given in chronological order, where possible.
When creating an RDF description, the following mapping is applied
| $a,$3 | rdaGr2:placeOfBirth | if the record describes a person |
| $a,$3 | rdaGr2:placeOfDeath | if the record describes a person |
| $a,$3 | rdaGr2:placeOfResidence | if the record describes a person |
{"data": {"place": [{ "tmp": "Temporary data ($9)", "part": [ {"name": "Entry element ($a)"}, {"address": "Address ($d)"}, {"sign": "Sign ($e)"}, {"addition": "Addition to the name ($r)"} ], "typeOfPlace": "Type of place ($0)", "source": ["source of information ($s)"], "start": year ($z), "end": year ($z), "note": [{ "lang": "Language code ($8)", "text": "Text of note ($n)" }], "id": "Record identifier of related record ($3)", "prc": 1 }]}}