https://rimmf.com/w/ 2026-05-21T05:20:21+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:rimmf2:details:aap_checkboxes&rev=1754422341&do=diff Using the 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:rimmf2:details:autofill&rev=1754422341&do=diff 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, other can be changed by the rimmfer. Hardcoded Autofills text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:details:columns&rev=1754422341&do=diff The RIMMF Columns 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:rimmf2: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:rimmf2: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:rimmf2: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. Our list is growing, so the list below might not be completely up-to-date. Special keystrokes Ctrl + A Save As ... Ctrl + E Show/Goto Entity Index Ctrl + F Show/Hide Search bar Ctrl + M Show MARC view of current record Ctrl + R Open Relationship Tree Ctrl + S Save record Ctrl + W Close (record document window) Ctrl + Alt + A Expand/c… text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:details:languages&rev=1754422341&do=diff Language support in RIMMF2 In RIMMF2, we now offer the option to display the RDA Element names in your templates in the languages currently (as of June 2013) supported by the RDA Toolkit (thank you, ALA Editions!). To change the language of the RDA element names, follow these steps: text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2: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:rimmf2:details:naco&rev=1754422341&do=diff Importing Authority data 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 To use the service, select a search target on the left, enter some text in the top box, then press Search. The default search target is '[ID] NAF', by which we mean the LC Name Authority file as available via text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2: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:rimmf2:details:programupdates&rev=1754422341&do=diff RIMMF Updates 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:rimmf2:details:rda2marc&rev=1754422341&do=diff MARC Mapping in RIMMF This page describes mapping in RIMMF1; it needs to be rewritten for RIMMF2! The first version of RIMMF supports a simplistic MARC mapping. By this we mean you can fill out the appropriate MARC coding for the RDA2MARC columns in your templates for the entities using the element editor (which we will describe below), and then, when editing/saving a record for an entity, you can press <F9> and RIMMF will create a MARC record from the RDA data (and put that record in you… text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:details:rda2marcr2&rev=1754422341&do=diff RIMMF2: MARC Mapping Notes [RIMMF2 is currently under development] Most of the notes here are written from the perspective of RDA2MARC rather than MARC2RDA. Marc Mapping window There are two components of a MARC mapping in RIMMF: * The mapping context text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:details:repeatedelements&rev=1754422341&do=diff The order and grouping of related elements in RIMMF 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 whenever that record is reloaded. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2: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:rimmf2: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:rimmf2:details:rtree&rev=1754422341&do=diff R-Tree 'R-Tree' is short for 'Relationship Tree'. Every record that you view in RIMMF will have an R-Tree button in the bottom-right corner of the form. Pressing the <R-Tree> button in this Work record will display a form that 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:rimmf2: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:rimmf2:details:searchandretrieval&rev=1754422341&do=diff The RIMMF Search & Retrieve Tool The goal of this tool is to make it possible to search some common sources of good/consistent MARC data, and, after retrieving the data, attempt to map the MARC record into RDA and display the result using RIMMF. The whole thing started as a 'tool' that we could use to develop and practise the MARC-to-RDA mapping supported by RIMMF2. It continues to be used for this purpose. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:details:sidebar&rev=1754422341&do=diff Learn About * Autofills in RIMMF * Element Sources * Function Keys in RIMMF * Grouping elements * Importing Name authority data into RIMMF * Language support in RIMMF * Links between records * MARC mapping * Open vrs. Closed vocabularies * RIMMF Updates * The R-Tree * RIMMF Columns * Using AAP checkboxes * WEMI Links