Re: [RDA-L] Latin, the dead language

2011-05-03 Thread John Hostage
Although any string could conceivably be used as a code, Mac demonstrates the difficulty of using such strings as codes. If it depends on entering punctuation and capitalization correctly, it is unlikely to be data that has been entered consistently over many years. (OCLC has 4483 records

Re: [RDA-L] Latin, the dead language

2011-05-03 Thread James Weinheimer
On 05/03/2011 04:18 PM, John Hostage wrote: snip Although any string could conceivably be used as a code, Mac demonstrates the difficulty of using such strings as codes. If it depends on entering punctuation and capitalization correctly, it is unlikely to be data that has been entered