Re: Are MARC subfields really useful ?

From: Gray-Williams, Donna <DGWilliams_at_nyob>
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 09:01:31 -0400
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
I've been following all of these discussions about MARC and its limitations, and sometimes it's beyond me because I'm not especially familiar with XMTL and the like--so here's my question:
Why can't MARC be expanded to function like these other formats if the data isn't presented in a ideal way to be extracted?  Why does it have to be totally thrown out to adopt something completely different? Is that so impossible?


Donna Gray-Williams
Technical Services Manager
Lake County Library System
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