On 8/23/07, Gaudet, Dodie <dgaudet_at_cmrls.org> wrote:
> Just a reminder that those slashes, brackets, etc. have nothing to do
> with MARC. That is ISBD punctuation found in AACR2. MARC and AACR2 are
> two separate things, although they are used together.
I think it has been argued quite strongly on this list that they are
not separate even though they technically may be so, but that's
pedantically arguing that porridge really is milk and grain and that
they're two separate things.
> The public
> generally cannot see any of the MARC codes, although MARC codes do
> determine how the data is displayed on the screen.
If you're not filtering out ISBD from MARC, what does those records
look like on screen?
Again, we're back to the fallacy of MARC itself ; it's supposed to be
machine-readable. What we need is machine-understandable MARC, and
ISBD (or other; there's plenty of variation) just is in the way,
visual cues from a time when MARC indeed was simply dumped to screens
and printers. That we still have this legacy in our primary data
format is really both sad and a testament to where we are in the
development of systems based on that data ; in a ditch.
Regards,
Alex
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