https://rimmf.com/w/ 2026-05-21T03:14:07+00:00 https://rimmf.com/w/ https://rimmf.com/w/lib/tpl/dokubook/images/favicon.ico text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:details:aap_checkboxes&rev=1754422341&do=diff Learn about: AAP Checkboxes Quick Steps If you need to add any elements to the default elements that are used to construct an Authorized Access Point (AAP) or Composite Key (CK) for an entity: * click the appropriate AAP/CK checkbox to turn on or off inclusion of your chosen element in the AAP/CK that is constructed (note that you cannot turn off a default, mandatory element for the AAP/CK) text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:details:all-added-elements&rev=1754422341&do=diff List of elements added to the RDA Registry This is a list of elements added to the RDA Registry by registry version. This is an unoffical list and not intended to be authoritative; for complete details, refer to the commit logs from the github project (links below). text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:details:all-deleted-elements&rev=1754422341&do=diff List of deprecated elements in the RDA Registry This is a list of deprecated elements in the RDA Registry by registry version. This is an unoffical list and not intended to be authoritative; for complete details, refer to the github links at the top of each section below. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:details:autofill&rev=1754422341&do=diff Learn about: Autofills in RIMMF To save the time of the rimmfer, we have RIMMF autofill the data for certain specified elements, using data already provided in cells for other elements. Some autofills are hardcoded, others can be changed by the rimmfer. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:details:columns&rev=1754422341&do=diff The RIMMF Columns NEEDS UPDATING Element Name This is the underlying RIMMF name of the element (you don't really want to look at this, it is not very pretty) Element Label This is the official RDA name of the element (or the RIMMF name, if it is not an RDA element) text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:details:commonfunctions&rev=1754422341&do=diff Learn about: The most commonly needed RIMMF functions Under “How to”: * Add a link to a related Entity * Add a term to a Vocabulary * Add an Element to a Record or Template * Add data to a Record * Add Subject data to a Record * Build WEM * Change a Relationship Element label * Change the Columns that Display * Change to a different folder of RIMMF records * Change to a new empty data folder of RIMMF Records * Choose data from a Vocabulary list * Copy an Ele… text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:details:detailsofelements&rev=1754422341&do=diff Elements for 'Details Of ...' Recently Deborah found a set of (possible) sub-elements (about 50) that are not accounted for in the Toolkit Element Set View (ESV), or the OMR, or RIMMF. As she said in an email: I'm doing an audio CD that is a “digitally mastered, analog recording text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:details:diacritics&rev=1754422341&do=diff RIMMF3 and Unicode We are currently working on a Unicode version of RIMMF3 and it is almost ready to go. When the Unicode version is ready it will replace the current one. There will be no difference in functionality--other than the fact that Unicode data will display properly. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:details:eicache&rev=1754422341&do=diff Entity Index Caching When RIMMF starts up, it creates the Entity Index (what we call the 'EI')--a database of all records that you have in the current data folder. Unlike a real library management system, which stores your database tables on disk, RIMMF stores them in memory. So, starting RIMMF takes a bit of time (depending on the record count), with the benefit of fast performance once the EI has been created. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:details:elementoptionscolumn&rev=1754422341&do=diff Learn about: The Element Options Column The 'Element Options Column' is found on the extreme left side of each record or template form. * If you click anywhere in a row for an element or caption, a big black arrow appears in the element options column for that row text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:details:elementproperties&rev=1754422341&do=diff Learn about: Element Properties and the RIMMF Element Editor To find out more about an element in a template or a record form, you can either: * right-click on the Element Options column (to the left of the Element Label) in a record or a template text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:details:elementtypes&rev=1754422341&do=diff Element Sources In RIMMF, there is support for different sources of elements. Of course, there are the RDA Elements, upon which the whole thing is based, but there are also some other element sources that you can use. We think it is important for you to tell at a glance the source of an element, caption, or vocabulary in a template, so we have assigned visual symbols to each non-RDA element type (RDA elements are not marked): text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:details:functionkeys&rev=1754422341&do=diff Function Keys in RIMMF We have set up a number of function keys and special keystrokes to save steps. However, since this list is constantly changing, it makes no sense to print it here. To view the function key list, open any entity record in RIMMF and press text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:details:importingbib&rev=1754422341&do=diff Importing MARC Bibliographic records into RIMMF Hints: * Check records after importing: * Manifestations: * Always check that Mode of Issuance is correct * If the bib record contains multiple Place of Publication and Publisher Name elements, then sort to correct order, after importing text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:details:languages&rev=1754422341&do=diff Language support in RIMMF3 Highlights (most recent first) * Finnish and Norwegian labels and definitions for entity elements and value vocabularies, as of RDA Registry version 2.7.2. * Value vocabulary terms in Catalan, Norwegian, Swedish and Vietnamese, as of RDA Registry version 2.7.1. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:details:language_stats&rev=1754422341&do=diff Language data in RIMMF RIMMF relies on the RDA Registry for its language data. We periodically poll the RDA Registry from our server, and prepare a package of all triples that contain language data (by language data, we mean a triple that contains a language tag. For example: @en). text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:details:links&rev=1754422341&do=diff Relationships, or, Links between records This page describes our implementation of RDA relationships, or, as we call them in RIMMF, “links”. Perhaps a primary 'selling point' of RDA is the way it facilitates the discovery of relationships between resources. We spent much time and effort trying to implement this concept in RIMMF, since we, too, believe these relationships are pivotal to how one thinks about text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:details:marcmappingissues&rev=1754422341&do=diff Learn About: MARC Mapping Issues Inevitably, there will be data in MARC that will not map over to RDA, cleanly. Here we will list some of the trickier things we have encountered, as either Outstanding Issue, or Solved Issues. Outstanding Mapping Issues text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:details:menutranslation&rev=1754422341&do=diff RIMMF menus in your language NB. This page is talking about the program menus, not the list of RDA Elements. If you are interested in translations of the RDA Elements, please contact Jamie Hennelly at ALA Digital Reference, or the RSC Chair, Gordon Dunsire. Template The template is available as an Excel spreadsheet here. The template contains three columns. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:details:mrciopts&rev=1754422341&do=diff MARC Import Options [to do] The MARC Options page of RIMMF's Data Options looks like this: text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:details:naco&rev=1754422341&do=diff Importing Authority data Needs rewriting --- Deborah 2014/10/02 00:23 To facilitate the import of MARC data into RIMMF, we have developed an interface that search a few sources of freely available data on the web. To open this search form, press <F3> Searching text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:details:openandclosed&rev=1754422341&do=diff Open and Closed vocabularies In RIMMF, there are two types of vocabularies: * Open--you may add your own terms to this type of vocabulary * Closed--you may not add terms to this type of vocabulary A vocabulary may be defined as open or closed on the main page of the vocabulary editor by checking (or un-checking) the 'Open vocabulary' option: text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:details:programupdates&rev=1754422341&do=diff RIMMF Updates NEEDS UPDATING The RIMMF software will be updated often, to: * fix problems * update the default tables * add functionality, and * implement suggestions Although RIMMF was designed to facilitate frequent updates (Check for Updates), there are a few details that we still have not worked out regarding user customization of the default tables. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:details:rda2marc&rev=1754422341&do=diff MARC Mapping in RIMMF To be written text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:details:rda2marcr2&rev=1754422341&do=diff Learn About: MARC Mapping [This page is currently under development, and the instructions provided here might not work] Most of the notes here are written from the perspective of RDA2MARC rather than MARC2RDA. Marc Mapping window Go to Show/Hide: MARC Mapping for instructions on how show this window: text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:details:rdaregchanges&rev=1754422341&do=diff RIMMF Release dates and RDA Registry versions This page lists the first version of RIMMF in which a given version of the RDA Registry was supported. RIMMF is cumulative (unless stated otherwise). Thus, each listed version of RIMMF, and all versions that follow the listed version, support the version of the RDA Registry listed in the table, including all changes detailed in previous versions of the RDA Registry. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:details:rdfxopts&rev=1754422341&do=diff RDF Export options RIMMF3 supports two types of RDF Export: * RDF 'Simple' * RDF 'Rimmf' The second case, RDF 'Rimmf', supports an export to RDF that is intended to be as close to 100% RIMMF-compatible as possible. This means data exported using this option may be imported back into RIMMF, with no loss of application-specific information. This type of export is always applied to single record exports, and RDA 'set' exports. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:details:repeatedelements&rev=1754422341&do=diff The order and grouping of related elements in RIMMF Needs editing --- Deborah 2014/10/07 20:54 In RIMMF, there's not really any difference between adding an element to a record and repeating an element that is already in the record--the user has control over the order and grouping of the data in the RIMMF record, and when the record is saved, that ordering and grouping is preserved in the saved record (in occurrence numbers that are attached to the element behind-the-scenes) and observed whene… text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:details:restoremods&rev=1754422341&do=diff Restore modifications to the RIMMF tables text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:details:rimmfingsteps&rev=1754422341&do=diff RIMMF a Resource: Step-by-step Search for Manifestation data, using the Entity Index * IF your Manifestation search did not find a hit (possible match), or if you found a hit but the Manifestation data that you found is not a match, and is not a near match either, then text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:details:rtree&rev=1754422341&do=diff Learn about: The 'R-Tree' (Relationship Tree) 'R-Tree' is short for 'Relationship Tree'. Access the R-Tree from the Entity Index You can open the R-Tree for a record from the Entity Index: * Open the EI <Ctrl+E> * Select the record * Click the <Open in R-Tree> button text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:details:rtreelimits&rev=1754422341&do=diff R-Tree behavior text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:details:searchandretrieval&rev=1754422341&do=diff Learn about: The RIMMF Search & Retrieve Tool The goal of this tool is to make it possible to search a few sources of good, consistent, free MARC data, available on the Web; and, after the data is retrieved, map the MARC record into RIMMF RDA format and display the result; and then allow you to choose whether or not to import the converted data. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:details:sidebar-old&rev=1754422341&do=diff RIMMF User Guide * RIMMF terminology * Menu Options * Main Menu * Record Menu * How To ... * Learn about ... * RIMMF Templates * RIMMF Examples * RIMMF Notes text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:details:sidebar&rev=1754422341&do=diff RIMMF User Guide * RIMMF terminology * Menu Options * Main Menu * Record Menu * How To ... * Learn about ... * RIMMF Templates * RIMMF Tutorials * RIMMF Notes text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:details:subjects&rev=1754422341&do=diff Subjects in RDA and RIMMF Subjects--what a thing is about--are, at least from the user's point of view, one of the most important bits of data that we add to our descriptions of things. In RDA, it seemed that subjects were originally designed to be handled by the four COEP entities text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:details:technotes&rev=1754422341&do=diff RIMMF Technical Notes On this page [still under construction] are a few notes about the technical aspects of RIMMF. The development tool that we use to produce RIMMF is called 'Delphi'. Find out about it here: <http://http://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi> (At present, RIMMF is made with version XE8.) text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:details:test&rev=1754422341&do=diff The first block enumerates the number of element set triples in the registry download tagged with '@'. Triples with language content ----------------------------- en: 10395 fi: 7929 da: 7791 de: 4873 vi: 4739 fr: 4425 el: 4346 ca: 3865 no: 2371 es: 1902 sv: 602 nl: 574 it: 54 text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:details:unicode&rev=1754422341&do=diff Unicode in RIMMF3 Beginning with update 141206 (mid-December 2014), all non-ASCII data in RIMMF3 (whether created or imported) is '\u' encoded. For example: \u00E9 where '00E9' is a hexadecimal number representing the UTF-16 code point of the character. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:details:webaccessinrimmf&rev=1754422341&do=diff Web access in RIMMF Note: This original version of this page described how to enter proxyserver settings; that info has been moved to the How-to section RIMMF uses the internet to access the following resources: * RIMMF wiki: <http://www.marcofquality.com/wiki/rimmf3> * RIMMF Vocabulary: <http://rimmf.com/vocab.rdf> * RDA Toolkit: