A data segment of predetermined length and positioning within an electronic message.
Specific locations on a tape or data file in which a particular category of data – for example, name, address, city, and zip code or purchase records – is always placed.
A MARC record field that is of fixed length. The fixed field that is found in all MARC records is the 008 field. All audiovisual records should contain the 007 fixed field. Since format integration, records containing multiple item types should also contain the 006 fixed field.
This is how the information is stored electronically. Every part of the record (i.e. a person's name) has a certain amount of space assigned to it, the field for that information is of a fixed number of characters.
As above, but where the number of characters can only be up to a certain length.
In OCLC-MARC, the field in which mnemonic labels identify elements that contain coded information for describing the item and the record. Each element has a fixed length. The fixed field is the OCLC-MARC format's combination of various MARC 21 control fields.
The alpha-numeric "box" located at the top of a MARC record containing important codes and other information.
A field in a machine-readable record in which each element, or unit of data, is limited to a prescribed size, content, and position in the record.
Within the MARC formats, there are several fields which are a fixed number of characters in length. These fields run along the top of the bibliographic record.