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 > > -- > ----------------------------------- > Karen Coyle / Digital Library Consultant > kco...@kcoyle.net http://www.kcoyle.net > ph.: 510-540-7596 skype: kcoylenet > fx.: 510-848-3913 > mo.: 510-435-8234 > ------------------------------------ -- Alistair Miles Senior Computing Officer Image Bioinformatics Research Group Department of Zoology The Tinbergen Building University of Oxford South Parks Road Oxford OX1 3PS United Kingdom Web: http://purl.org/net/aliman Email: alistair.mi...@zoo.ox.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1865 281993