Original Message: (In reference to names in 505 fields)
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From: Ross Singer ross.singer_at_LIBRARY.GATECH.EDU
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Can we change the catalog without changing
cataloging?
This is hardly the point. They may be 'accessible', but they aren't
formatted and it's difficult to do anything with them from a machine
standpoint.
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Right. And note that names are treated differently all over the MARC
record. I just looked at MODS and was disappointed to find that the TOC
field there is just a string, even though there are re-usable structures
for names and for titles that could have been incorporated there. This lack
of consistency in how the same (or similar)data is treated is one of the
things that hinders MARC. It shouldn't be hard to do better than this.
kc
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