You've still got to know _what_ authority file the control number came
from. Does the MARC standard provide a way to identify that?
A US cataloger is likely using the US NAF, but a German or French
cataloger is not. So if all you've got is a bare control number in $0,
you've still got to know what authority file it comes from.
Jonathan
Galen Charlton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <rochkind_at_jhu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Frances Dean McNamara wrote:
>>
>>> So, why aren't we keeping the Authorities LCCN in name fields? Then we
>>> could link to some interesting stuff, like OCLC Identities, or later other
>>> registries of authors.
>>>
>>>
>> And it certainly can hypothetically be done in MARC, or in _any_ record
>> format that's flexible enough to handle it.
>>
>
> Of course, many systems and cataloging communities *have* consistently
> been using a MARC subfield to store the ID of the authority record
> corresponding to a heading. It's a pity that it took until 2007 for
> such a subfield ($0) to be defined for MARC21.
>
> Regards,
>
> Galen Charlton
> LibLime
>
Received on Thu Apr 23 2009 - 12:22:48 EDT