415 Other form of Place name

This field holds forms of a place name that are not standardised headings, but found in imprints, reference works or similar. Real variants (different spellings, vernacular, foreign or historic forms etc.) as well as ficticious names or names of other places used to disguise the actual place of publishing in a book's imprint.

Indicator 1: Specifies the type of name

• 0 Name (default)

• 1 Fictional name

Indicator 2: Specifies the type of input:

• 0 Form of name has been input or corrected by cataloguer; this form of name cannot be overwritten in automated updating processes

• 1 Form of name has been input by automated addition; review by cataloguer may be necessary

$6 Source File Reference (O;NR)
see the description of numerical subfields.

$8 Language code (O;R)
Mandatory to precede the $n subfield. see the description of numerical subfields.

$a Variant place name (M;NR)
Any variant name form; without non-sorting parts or additions to the name unless the additions are considered an integral part of the name.

$e Non-Sorting part of name (O;NR)
Any part of the entry element, which should be skipped if entry elements are sorted alphabetically.

$n Cataloguer's note (O;R)
Forming a pair with the preceding $8 subfield. Any cataloguer's comment on this category

$r Addition other than names to entry element (O;R)
Any additions to the name that are not considered part of the name (e.g. “Hansestadt”)

$s Source note (O;R)
Reference Work or other source where the given name form has been taken from.

$z Chronological Note (O;NR)
Used in conjunction with $a, to indicate that the information given there applies only to a certain time period.
Preferrred form of entry: yyyy-yyyy or yyyy- or -yyyy

In case field 110 $a holds “1”, which would indicate a ficticious or fictional place, the value of indicator 1 should be “1” in all occurrences of field 415.

Inflected forms can also be recorded in field 415; prepositions and introductory phrases, however, should not be given (neither in subfield $a nor in subfield $e).

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

• rdaGr3 represents the namespace “http://rdvocab.info/ElementsGr3/”
• The RDA ontologies are registerd with the open metadata registry (http://metadataregistry.org/schemaprop/show/id/1141.html)
• ct represents the namespace “http://www.cerl.org/namespaces/thesaurus/”
• ct:ficticiousNameForThePlace is defined as a subproperty of rdaGr3:NameOfThePlace

Mapping Example

<rdf:Description rdf:about="http://thesaurus.cerl.org/cnl00009564">
   <rdaGr3:nameOfThePlace>Göttingen</rdaGr3:nameOfThePlace>
   <rdaGr3:variantNameForThePlace>Goddinga</rdaGr3:variantNameForThePlace>
   <rdaGr3:variantNameForThePlace>Goddinga</rdaGr3:variantNameForThePlace>
   <rdaGr3:variantNameForThePlace>Goetingae</rdaGr3:variantNameForThePlace>
   <rdaGr3:variantNameForThePlace>Goettina</rdaGr3:variantNameForThePlace>
   ...
   <ct:ficticiousNameForThePlace>London</ct:ficticiousNameForThePlace>
   <ct:ficticiousNameForThePlace>Schelmerode</ct:ficticiousNameForThePlace>
   <ct:ficticiousNameForThePlace>Theopolis</ct:ficticiousNameForThePlace>
   ...
</rdf:Description>

1. 415 01$aPistoria$sOrbis$sDeschamps
2. 415 11$aCosmopolis
3. 415 01$aRhydychen$8eng$nWelsh name form
4. 415 00$aGradis$ram Sontig