Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
>
> To me, this is a good example of how our current data landscape is very
> difficult to comprehend correctly.
It's not difficult at all.
We have (omitting all irrelevant stuff)
000 8888888
008 german
100 Shakespeare, William
240 All's well that ends well
245 Ende gut, alles gut
and every ILS has its own copy of this, so it is open to
all sorts of local manipulation. Result: shaky interoperability
Whereas we should have
010 8888888
100 #1234567
240 #4444444 <German>
245 Ende gut, alles gut
010 1234567
100 Shakespeare, William
... (other forms of name)
010 4444444
245 All's well that ends well
... (other forms of this title)
Is there any indication LC will be providing anything the likes
of this with their intended RDA implementation in 2009?
B.Eversberg
Received on Tue Dec 04 2007 - 10:50:55 EST