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Re: RDA and MARC

Alistair Miles
Thu, 19 Feb 2009 05:50:40 -0800

Hi Karen,

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 11:11:47AM -0800, Karen Coyle wrote:
> 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.

Just curious, what do you mean by "actionable map"? Can I see what
you've done so far? 

Cheers,

Alistair

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