Hi,
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <rochkind_at_jhu.edu> wrote:
> If we're stuck with MARC, then I guess we'll have to make do. But I'm with
> Karen, putting more effort into MARC in an effort to make a really
> complicated way to at least make this possible -- increasingly gives us
> diminishing returns for the effort.
I'm not saying that the MARC21 subfield $0 is a particularly clean way
of representing or communicating links between authorized headings and
authority records. As you and Karen have pointed out, there are
problems with it, and we can do better. However, it does represent an
unfortunate missed opportunity for (U.S.?) users of MARC21. If, as
was done in Croatia, France, and Germany (at least), there had been a
practice of exchanging bib records that did regularly store the IDs of
linked authority records coming from a national authority file, we'd
be a much better position to migrate MARC21 data to a better data
model.
Regards,
Galen Charlton
LibLime
Received on Thu Apr 23 2009 - 13:41:04 EDT