Argh. Must learn to write at third grade level....
I wanted to say I like breaking up 6XX as Roy has done because 6XX fields
vary in purpose and tag frequency varies considerably.
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Kyle Banerjee <kyle.banerjee_at_gmail.com>wrote:
> This squares with what I'm seeing. Data for all holdings of the Orbis
> Cascade Alliance is:
>
> 100: 30.1
> 245: 114.1
> 6XX: 36.1
>
> My values include indicators (2 characters) as well as any delimiters but
> not the tag number itself. I breaking up 6XX up as Roy has as 6XX's are far
> from created equal and frequency of occurrence varies radically with tag.
>
> I'm going to guess our 245 values are longer because we're an academic
> consortium and holdings are biased towards academic titles which tend to be
> longer.
>
Received on Wed Oct 16 2013 - 14:12:13 EDT