Re: RDA and MARC

[Karen Coyle]

i haven't done it yet, but i was planning to hook rda to marc in a 
database i keep of marc fields. that would allow me to output an 
rda-to-marc. the documents unfortunately take shortcuts, like:

300
 $a
 $b

so i want to turn this into a list of tags and subfields, which is 
what's in my db

300/a
300/b

if that would be useful for you, it'll motivate me.

kc


Alistair Miles wrote:
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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