RDA and MARC

[Karen Coyle]

I've begun what may be a very slow process to create an actionable map 
from RDA to MARC. Although Appendix D has the mapping between them as 
text, the mapping isn't rigorous. In addition, it becomes obvious that 
RDA and MARC function at different levels of granularity, such as:

$a Personal name

        

*9.2.2 Preferred Name for the Person*

$b Numeration

        

*9.2.2 Preferred Name for the Person*


Some of the elements that we might need are found in FRAD, not RDA.

I may give up on this, but it seems to be the only way to know whether 
we can create a  record from RDA that is interoperable with legacy data. 
I'm not looking to match MARC 1-to-1, but it will be good to know what 
the differences are.

If anyone has gone further along in this exercise, I'd like to hear from 
you.
kc

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