On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 17:09, Ardie Bausenbach <abau_at_loc.gov> wrote:
> Since that time, many other national libraries have moved from
> their national formats to MARC 21, including (among others),
> the UK, Germany, Finland, and Spain.
I know a few more, but another point worth, er, screaming about, is
the various AACT2 / RDA / other rules changes that's not linked to
MARC at all. I know a lot of it is covered in MARC documentation, but
there's hidden gems, like punctuations, symbols, character-encodings,
etc which aren't always specified.
If the library world embraced XML as a minimum a lot could be fixed in
that area (and no, XMLMARC does not qualify :).
Regards,
Alex
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