Mary Mastraccio wrote:
I think the child/title authority record is needed rather than just using the "works" information to allow for name/title headings in bib record displays. It might be determined that the "Works" field in the parent record should only have the control number of the child name record. [I use control number but certainly a URI could be supplied.] I strongly suspect that the various language translations of a title could/should really be in the one NameTitle/Child record. To make this work the title display would probably relate to a language code in the bib record and the NameTitle/Child record could have multiple Title fields. I better stop with this or the email will get too long. This is the type of work I would like see happen.
All that's needed in MARC for this to happen was suggested a long time ago, and submitted as a discussion paper (meanwhile accepted by MARBI): http://www.loc.gov/marc/marbi/2007/2007-dp01.html Subfield $0 is for the link. Links are necessary always _only_ from the lower level to the upper level, not both ways! Or think what it would mean otherwise: you would have to enter a link twice (at both ends) and update the upper level record (e.g. for a series) every time a new lower level record arrives (e.g. for a volume). Proper indexing can take care of correct linking. We've been doing these things in our (non-MARC) environments for decades. The Pica software comes complete with all necessary functions. It is owned by OCLC. An older description is here: http://www.allegro-c.de/formate/reusep.htm B.Eversberg
