https://rimmf.com/w/ 2026-05-21T04:31:10+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:rimmf1:menu:about&rev=1754422341&do=diff About RIMMF Our development of RIMMF grew out of my need to understand RDA thinking. As a cataloging trainer faced with the prospect of training catalogers to follow RDA guidelines and instructions instead of AACR rules, I knew I had to understand RDA before I could hope to explain it to anyone else. Because I am a very visual person, I felt that I would never understand RDA without seeing it in action, despite attending many presentations over the course of 10 or so years, and pestering the … text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:admin&rev=1754422341&do=diff Admin menu The options that follow should be used with some caution; in fact, its probably best to avoid the options on this page entirely, for now, unless recommended as a solution to a problem. Reset ID numbers This option will reset the starting ID number that RIMMF uses when creating records. It does this by scanning all the records in the data folder, removing any record prefixes, and determines the highest number currently in use. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:appendices&rev=1754422341&do=diff More details Element Types text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:changedata&rev=1754422341&do=diff Change Data Folder By default, RIMMF stores the records you make in either My Documents\RIMMF\data or in the RIMMF\data subdirectory on your flash drive. 'Change data folder' allows you to switch to a different folder, temporarily; this can be useful when sharing records text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:changefont&rev=1754422341&do=diff Options: Font The Font option on the record menu opens a Windows Font pop-up where you can customize the text display that you see in the 'Text' column in a record or template. If you want to customize the appearance of another column, use the Customize Levels... option. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:clonerecord&rev=1754422341&do=diff Clone record To use an existing record as the basis for a new record (to save typing similar information all over again) you can copy the existing record as a 'cloned' record (aka a different edition record). To clone a record: * Open the record you want to clone text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:close&rev=1754422341&do=diff File: Close To close a record in RIMMF, either use the 'File|Close' menu, or click the [x] box at the top right of the form: If you have made a change to the record, and have not already saved the change(s), a warning message will pop-up: Select text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:closeall&rev=1754422341&do=diff Close All Records This option closes all open record windows. Choose 'File|Close All Records' If any document has been changed and not saved, a pop-up confirmation window will allow you to save your changes: Although all records will be closed, the software itself will remain open, ready for further action. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:closeeverything&rev=1754422341&do=diff Close Everything This option closes all open windows. Choose 'File|Close Everything' If any document has been changed and not saved, a pop-up confirmation window will allow you to save your changes: Although all open windows will be closed, the software itself will remain open, ready for further action. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:copytemplate&rev=1754422341&do=diff Copy a Template Copy a Template: Quick Steps * Choose 'File|Open|Template' * Select and open the appropriate Entity folder * Select and open the template you want to copy * Save the existing template as a new file using 'File|Save As' * Give the new template an explanatory name, always beginning with the name of the Entity, e.g., Expression template.Audio text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:customizelevels&rev=1754422341&do=diff Options: Customize levels This option opens the following form: You may customize the Font properties, and the background colors, for the various levels, separately, or setup one style and apply it to all levels (the default). These customizations are controlled by the View menu's 'Highlight levels' option, which acts as an 'on/off' switch for your customizations. Thus, you can setup some customizations on this form, and then turn them on or off when viewing records by toggling the 'Highlig… text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:customizetemplate&rev=1754422341&do=diff Customize a Template text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:docconv&rev=1754422341&do=diff Documentation conventions Special keys on the keyboard are given in angle brackets: <Ctrl> means Ctrl key <Alt> means Alt key <Ctrl>+key means hold down the Ctrl key, then press 'key' <Ctrl><Alt>+key means hold down both the Ctrl key and the Alt key, then press 'key' text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:download&rev=1754422341&do=diff RIMMF: Version 1 To download: Link to the standard installer <!-- Dont change the text in the next line as its used in the mkrimmf script --> Version: 1.0.1.318 ---------- <!-- What's new? List of changes --> Installation Steps * Download the standard installer to your computer: * text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:elementeditor&rev=1754422341&do=diff Element editor The element editor is a convenient way to view and manage all of the RIMMF properties associated with an element. There are three separate 'tabs' of information for each element: Element, RDA, and Trace. The Element tab displays the primary properties of the element: text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:elementtypes&rev=1754422341&do=diff Element Types In RIMMF, there is support for different types of elements. Of course, there is the RDA Element, upon which the whole thing is based, but there are also some other element types 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:rimmf1:menu:entityindex&rev=1754422341&do=diff Entity Index The Entity Index (EI) is a list of all of the records that you have created in RIMMF. Entity Index: Quick Steps * Choose 'Tools|Entity Index' from the main menu Note: You may click on the column header to sort any column. To Search the Entity Index text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:expand2level&rev=1754422341&do=diff View menu: Expand to Level This option allows you to customize the levels of elements that you see in a record or template display, which can sometimes help you to see what is going on more clearly. With 'Expand to Level' set at the top level ('0'), you will see only the Entity Name for the record; this is the equivalent to collapsing all levels of the display ( text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:expandcollapse&rev=1754422341&do=diff View menu: Expand/Collapse All When this option is toggled on (the default), then all of the elements in a record or template will be displayed; if this option is toggled off, then only the first level--the entity--will be displayed: (screenshot showing a record with the 'Expand/Collapse All' option toggled off). text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:faq&rev=1754422341&do=diff Frequently Asked Questions What is RIMMF? RIMMF is: * a visualization tool for catalogers, to help them to get used to thinking RDA, instead of AACR/MARC. * a cataloging training tool, to help educators teach RDA thinking What RIMMF is not RIMMF is not a cataloging tool, because you cannot export records that can be used in an ILS. You can also not, as yet, import records created by an ILS or other such utility into RIMMF. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:gridlines&rev=1754422341&do=diff View menu: Grid Lines By default, no lines are drawn on a RIMMF record or template form: However, you can use this option to add horizontal lines: Vertical lines: Or both, giving the effect of grid cells: Note The tree branch connectors (dotted lines) along the left side of the Element labels are always displayed. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:help&rev=1754422341&do=diff RIMMF: Program Help index Click on the links below to visit the corresponding documentation * Program Menus * User interface * Data structure * FAQ text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:hints&rev=1754422341&do=diff Quick Hints * Control key shortcuts * Delete a row: <Ctrl + Del> * Insert a row: text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:install&rev=1754422341&do=diff RIMMF Installation Select the “Download” topic on the left, then download the software to your computer. When the download is complete, double-click on the downloaded file to install RIMMF. When the installation is complete, there should be an icon for RIMMF on your desktop. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:interface&rev=1754422341&do=diff RIMMF: Interface text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:license&rev=1754422341&do=diff RIMMF License RIMMF is made available under the following terms: CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:licensing&rev=1754422341&do=diff Licensing RIMMF is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. Refer to the URL in the “Attribution” section below for more details. There are three requirements of this license text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:listrecords&rev=1754422341&do=diff List Records by Entity This option simply dumps a list of all of your records, sorted by Entity (in the order W-E-M-I-P-F-C), to a text control from which you may copy and paste the results. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:list_source&rev=1754422341&do=diff RIMMF Column: List Source and List Schema If the current element is to be derived from a valuelist, the 'Source' column will contain the URI for that valuelist. For example, the column labelled 'Mode of Issuance' contains this URI in the 'Source' column: text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:mainmenuall&rev=1754422341&do=diff Main Menu Options Here is a list of all of the Main menu options This menu is used to create or open a record or a template. Main Menu: File Menu * New Template for ... * New Record for ... * Open ... * Record * XML Record * Record in Template * Template * Element Set * Reopen ... * Close All * Quit Main Menu: Edit Menu There are two options for 'editors' here, one for Elements and the other for Vocabularies: text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:mainmenuedit&rev=1754422341&do=diff Main: Edit menu There are two options for 'editors' here, one for Elements and the other for Vocabularies: The 'Element' editor is an interface to change the properties of the elements defined in RIMMF. The 'Vocabulary' editor is an interface to change the properties and terms used by vocabularies defined in RIMMF. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:mainmenufile&rev=1754422341&do=diff Main: File menu This menu is used to create or open a record or a template. * New Template for ... * New Record for ... * Open ... * Record * Record in Template * Template * Element Set * Reopen ... * Close All Records * Close Everything * Quit text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:mainmenuhelp&rev=1754422341&do=diff Main: Help menu The Help menu on the main form contains: * RIMMF User Guide <F1>--a quick link to this User Guide for in-depth help * TMQ Website--a quick link to our company website for information about other software and services we offer text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:mainmenuoptions&rev=1754422341&do=diff Main: Options menu The options menu contains options that affect the program as a whole: Use built-in browser If this box is checked, RIMMF will use its own browser to navigate web-links, otherwise it will use your default browser. RIMMF comes with its own web browsing tool, which may be used for browsing the RDA Toolkit, the MARC documentation at LC, and links to other external sources. The advantages of this browser are that it is lightweight. The disadvantages are that it does not have … text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:mainmenutools&rev=1754422341&do=diff Main: Tools menu * Entity Index * List records by Entity * Notices * Setup * Admin * Change Data Folder ---------- text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:mainmenuwindows&rev=1754422341&do=diff Main: Windows menu This menu simply maintains a list of all records currently open in RIMMF. The records are identified by their RIMMF Identifier. Use this menu to get back to a specific record if your desktop becomes too cluttered with open windows. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:menus&rev=1754422341&do=diff Current program menus Note: the option names highlighted in red below are saved each time the program closes. File menu * Open|F3 - load a template into the editor * Save - save the current template (Be careful! recommend using 'Save As' until you have tested a reload) text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:newrecord&rev=1754422341&do=diff Create a New Record Use this menu option to create a new record. Quick Steps * Choose 'File|New Record for ...' * Select the appropriate Entity * Select an appropriate Template * Add data to your new record * Save your record before closing it with: <Ctrl+S> text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:newtemplate&rev=1754422341&do=diff Create New template Use this menu to make a new template. Quick steps * Choose 'File|New Template for ...' * Select the appropriate Entity * In the default template that opens, choose 'File|Save As ...' * Give the new template an explanatory name, always beginning with the name of the Entity, e.g., Expression template.Audio text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:notices&rev=1754422341&do=diff Database notices When the program starts, and the tables are created, several notices about links are generated. These notices or reports are entered into the main menu in this section: Dead links A 'dead link' is a RIMMF Identifier that links to a record that no longer exists. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:opacview&rev=1754422341&do=diff OPAC View This option allows you to see the data for an entity record in a slightly more user-friendly view. Here is a RIMMF record-- --displayed in OPAC view: The OPAC view opens in RIMMF's built-in browser--so if you have anything else this window, e.g., the RDA Toolkit (because of a link to an RDA rule), then the toolkit window will be replaced with the opac view. You can use the 'Prev' and 'Next' buttons in the browser window to get back to the Toolkit window. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:openeset&rev=1754422341&do=diff Open an Element Set In RIMMF, an “element set” is the same as the '.01' template for an RDA Entity, which is sorted in Element Label order. Quick Steps * Choose “File|Open ...|Element set” * Select the entity you want to view Detailed Steps text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:openrecord&rev=1754422341&do=diff Open a Record Only use this option when you know the record number of the record you want to open. Quick Steps * Choose: File|Open|Record * Select the record you want to open (you must know the record # to use this option) Detailed Steps * text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:openrecordintemplate&rev=1754422341&do=diff Open Record in a Template Quick Steps * Choose “File|Open ...” * Select “Record in Template” * Select and open a record (you must know the record # to use this option) * Select the template to use for the record Detailed Steps You would only use this option when you know the record number of the record you want. If you do not know the record number of the record that you want, use text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:opentemplate&rev=1754422341&do=diff Open a Template Quick Steps * Choose “File|Open ...|Template” * Select and open the appropriate template folder * Select and open the appropriate template Detailed Steps Choose “File|Open ...|Template” Open the appropriate template folder: text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:optionsremove&rev=1754422341&do=diff Remove Elements options There are three options for removing elements in the current document: * Remove non-RDA Elements * Remove Relationship elements * Remove Empty elements The first two apply only to templates; the third applies only to records. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:parent&rev=1754422341&do=diff RIMMF ID columns To create a self-referencing trees structure (like RIMMF) two id columns are needed: * a Parent ID * a Row ID Row IDs are simple sequential numbers. The Parent ID is what connects a row to another row in a Parent/Child relationship, thus making the tree visualization possible. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:print&rev=1754422341&do=diff Print options There is limited support for printing in RIMMF. If you do use the 'File|Print' command, RIMMF will scrape the element labels and text from the current input form, and send something like this to the printer: Preferred Title for the Work: MARC21 for everyone Date of Work: 2003 Place of Origin of the Work: Melbourne Beach, Florida Authorized Access Point †: Fritz, Deborah A. (Deborah Angela), 1955. MARC21 for everyone Expression of Work\RIMMF Identifier †: 00000062 (Fritz, Deborah A… text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:quit&rev=1754422341&do=diff File: Quit This option closes the software. * Choose “File|Quit” * If any document has been changed and not saved since it was changed, a pop-up confirmation window will allow you to save your changes Another method of quitting the software is to click on the text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:rda_element&rev=1754422341&do=diff RIMMF Column: RDA Element The 'RDA Element' columns contain the names or captions (or labels, or field names, etc.) for each row. Since some of these element names can be very long, there are two versions: a complete element name, and a brief element name. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:rda_in_marc&rev=1754422341&do=diff RDA in MARC June 1, 2011: “Library of Congress May Begin Transitioning Away from MARC” This is an interesting article expanding upon the LC announcement re “Transforming our Bibliographic Framework”. It is sounding more and more like the LC decision re RDA implementation will be text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:rda_rule&rev=1754422341&do=diff RIMMF Column: RDA Rule This column contains the RDA Rule number for the current element. If you have a valid subscription, you may click on this rule to browse to the corresponding RDA documentation. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:recmenuedit&rev=1754422341&do=diff Record: Edit and Search menu The Edit menu for the record (or template) form looks something like this: The first two options provide an easy way to enter the special copyright symbol(s) that are required in RDA. The bottom option opens a search dialog that you may use to locate elements on larger forms (such as a Manifestation template): text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:recmenufile&rev=1754422341&do=diff Record: File menu When a record or template is displayed, the File menu contains these options: * Clone record * Switch template * Save * Save As * Save As MARC * Print * Select printer * Close Many of the menu items on the record form have shortcut keys; once you learn them you will be able to quickly perform actions without using the mouse. For example, press <Ctrl><Alt>C to 'C'lone a record, or <Ctrl>S to 'S'ave a record, and so on. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:recmenuhelp&rev=1754422341&do=diff Record: Help menu At present, this menu contains two items: The first item, 'Home'. is simply a shortcut that might help you get back to the main screen in RIMMF if the desktop becomes too cluttered with record windows. The second item is a link to this User guide (a link which is also duplicated on the main RIMMF form). text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:recmenuoptions&rev=1754422341&do=diff Record: Options menu The 'Options' menu on the RIMMF record form looks like this: * Expand/Collapse All * Sort by Rule number * Sort by Element name * OPAC View * XML View * Remove ... elements text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:recmenuview&rev=1754422341&do=diff Record: View menu The View menu on the record form contains options that allow you to customize the appearance of RIMMF records and templates. To access these options, a record or template must be visible: * Expand to Level * Highlight by level * Autosize columns to fit * Wrap Text column * Grid Lines * Un-tree/Flatten * Show/Hide options... * Change Text Font text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:related_topics&rev=1754422341&do=diff RIMMF Related Topics RDA in MARC text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:reopen&rev=1754422341&do=diff Re-open a File Whenever a record or template is opened in RIMMF, the program adds it to the Re-open menu. You can use this menu to quickly re-open a recent record or a recent blank template. * Choose “File|Re-open...” * Select the file you want to open text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:rimmfei&rev=1754422341&do=diff Entity Index text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:rimmfgriduse&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to use the data grids in RIMMF text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:rimmfmenus&rev=1754422341&do=diff RIMMF Menus There are two different screens or forms that are used in RIMMF, and each one, shown below, has its own menu. This guide simply follows the menu structure of the program: click on a link to get more information about a menu. The 'Main' menu text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:rimmfrld&rev=1754422341&do=diff RLD: RIMMF Linking Data text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:rule_link&rev=1754422341&do=diff RIMMF Column: RDA Rule Link If the 'RDA Rule' column contains an entry, this 'Link' column, normally hidden, will contain the full URI for the rule. It is the 'Link' column that is executed when you click on an RDA Rule. NOTE: Access to the RDA documentation requires a subscription. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:save&rev=1754422341&do=diff Save a record or template To save a record, press 'File|Save'. The shortcut for this command is <Ctrl>+S You may use the Save command as often as you wish. When you press Save, RIMMF scrapes the record from the input form and writes it to your hard disk. During this process it will also update the text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:saveas&rev=1754422341&do=diff File: Save As In RIMMF, the 'Save As' command should only be used when you create a new template. The 'Save As' command is not available for records, because using it in this way would break any existing links in the current record. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:saveasmarc&rev=1754422341&do=diff File: Save As Marc When you open a record (not a template), and select the 'Save As MARC' option, or press <F9>, RIMMF will produce a MARC record, based on the instructions that are in the Rda2Marc/A or Rda2Marc/B columns; and write it to the data folder used for your records. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:screenshots&rev=1754422341&do=diff RIMMF Structure RIMMF is designed around the structure of the RDA instructions in the RDA Toolkit (TK). The TK Element Set View (ESV) lists the various FRBR Entities separately, so RIMMF does the same: The ESV groups RDA data elements into “Attributes text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:setup&rev=1754422341&do=diff Setup menu ---------- Record Prefix The first time you run a new installation of RIMMF, a form pops up asking you to set your record prefix. This is important, and is the only required Setup option in RIMMF (i.e., RIMMF should not allow you to proceed without adding this prefix). text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:shortcutkeys&rev=1754422341&do=diff RIMMF shortcut keys File menu * Clone record <Ctrl><Alt>O * Save (record) <Ctrl>S * Save As <Ctrl><Alt>S * Print <Ctrl><Alt>P * Close (record) <Ctrl>W Edit menu * Copyright symbol <Shift><F1> * Phonogram symbol <Shift><F2> View menu text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:showaaphints&rev=1754422341&do=diff Show/Hide Access point hints This option controls the display of the authorized access point in a RIMMF Identifier element. In brief, RIMMF Identifiers are control numbers that link records to one another. On their own, as shown in the snippet for a manifestation below, they do not provide very much information for the cataloger (though they are essential for the system): text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:showelement&rev=1754422341&do=diff Show/Hide Element name as hint By default, RIMMF displays cataloger-friendly labels for the elements in a record or template. If you want to see the actual RIMMF Element name (which may be rather long and somewhat redundant at times), you may either enable display of the 'RIMMF Element' column, or use this option, which pops-up the element name as a windows help-hint whenever you move the mouse over the associated label: text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:showhide&rev=1754422341&do=diff View menu: Show/Hide This sub-menu contains options that allow you to show or hide parts of the record/template form: * Show Access points as hint * Show Element name as hint * WEMI Links * Status Bar text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:sidebar&rev=1754422341&do=diff The 'Main' menu * File Menu * Edit Menu * Options Menu * Tools Menu * Windows Menu * Help Menu The 'Record' menu * File Menu * Edit Menu * View Menu * Options Menu * Help Menu text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:sortbyname&rev=1754422341&do=diff Options: Sort by Element Name This simply sorts the record form on the Element Label column. Like the 'Sort by Rule Number' option, this option should also be applied as needed, since it cannot be saved as a default (for the same reason). text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:sortbyrule&rev=1754422341&do=diff Options: Sort by Rule number Select this option to sort a record form by the values in the 'RDA Rule' column. Here is a record that is not sorted by Rule: ... And is now sorted by Rule: Note This option should be applied as needed (the shortcut is <Ctrl><Alt>R). By design it cannot be saved as a default setting. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:statusbar&rev=1754422341&do=diff View menu: Status Bar This option simply toggles on/off the Status Bar at the bottom of a record or template form. It might be useful when you are working on smaller displays (laptops, etc.) text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:switchtemplate&rev=1754422341&do=diff Switch template This option simply opens the current record in a different template. When you select this option, a list of all templates that you have created for the entity represented by the record are displayed. Select the template that you want to view the record in. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:text&rev=1754422341&do=diff RIMMF Column: Text This column contains the actually data entered by the user when describing a resource. In normal usage, this is the only column that will be modifiable by the user. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:tracking_updates&rev=1754422341&do=diff RIMMF Changes #270 +Copyright symbol : Shift+F1 +Phonogram: SHift+F2 (wont display correctly) #264 +Adds new 'Document Mode' under Edit menu: Element Set, Template, or Record 'Mode' +Adds editability to Rules column in Master mode +Adds functional 'Re-open' menu to File menu text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:viewautosize&rev=1754422341&do=diff View menu: Autosize columns to fit This option automatically sizes the RIMMF record columns so that they all fit nicely within the form. This option is true by default. When this option is enabled, it will be applied any time you resize the form by grabbing the bottom right corner. If you do not like that behavior, then turn this option off and adjust the columns manually (see note below). text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:viewflat&rev=1754422341&do=diff View menu: Un-tree/Flatten This option flattens the grid so that every Element has the same number of columns. By default, parent elements display only the column upon which the RIMMF tree structure is based, which is the Element Label. For example, note how the Label columns of the parent elements (Related Manifestation, Relationship Designators text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:viewhighlight&rev=1754422341&do=diff View menu: Highlight by Level This option toggles on or off any customizations you have made on the 'Customize levels' form. By default this option is turned off. Follow this link for information on how to customize levels text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:viewwrap&rev=1754422341&do=diff View menu: Wrap Text column This option toggles on or off the word-wrapping of the data in the Text column. For example, with 'Wrap Text' off: And the same data with 'Wrap Text' on: Note In the current version of RIMMF, this option, when enabled, will also wrap the text in the 'Element Label' column. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:vocabeditor&rev=1754422341&do=diff Vocabulary editor The vocabulary editor is a convenient way to view and manage the properties of a vocabulary and its terms. There are three separate 'tabs' of information for each element: Vocabulary, Terms, and Links. The Vocabulary tab displays the primary properties of the vocabulary: text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:wemilinks&rev=1754422341&do=diff Show/Hide WEMI Links This option show or hides the WEMI Links bar that appears at the bottom of a RIMMF record form. When this option is enabled (the default), a record form may look like this: And the same record form, with this option turned off, looks like: text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf1:menu:xmlview&rev=1754422341&do=diff XML View This option simply dumps the current record to XML and loads the result in the browser. ---------- *Notes** This option is not available for templates. This option works regardless of the 'Record File Type' setting. The browser that is used will depend on your current broswer selection.