On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 5:49 AM, Bernhard Eversberg <ev_at_biblio.tu-bs.de> wrote:
> What can COPAC do, thanks to MODS, that a MARC-based catalog couldn't?
> From visiting it, I'm at a loss to answer that question, but I may have
> failed to look hard enough. (The granularity of MODS, to mention one
> point, is by design inferior to MARC's.)
>
While I did not come here to praise MODS, I feel this is a little
disingenuous. I think two questions need to be addressed here: 1) is
any real granularity lost between MARC21 as it's found in the wild and
MODS? 2) if so, is it anything that really, honestly matters?
-Ross.
Received on Tue Jun 22 2010 - 08:23:27 EDT