Re: [RDA-L] RDA and MARC

2011-02-14 Thread Galen Charlton
, and Leader/22 to values other than '2', '4', '5', or '0', respectively? Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton gmcha...@gmail.com

Re: [RDA-L] Linked data

2011-01-19 Thread Galen Charlton
format ought to support making simple tasks (such as extracting a title) well, simple. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton gmcha...@gmail.com

Re: [RDA-L] Linked data

2011-01-19 Thread Galen Charlton
) of an item in hand, a better metadata format than MARC21 would both enable the distinctions to be preserved and make it clearer to systems implementors how to process and display the results. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton gmcha...@gmail.com

Re: [RDA-L] Browse and search RDA test data

2011-01-17 Thread Galen Charlton
. This is by no means perfect - I can't imagine that anybody charged with designing a library metadata carrier from scratch nowadays would come up with the hybrid MARCXML+extensions that I'm proposing, but it is a better intermediate than ISO2709. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton gmcha...@gmail.com

Re: [RDA-L] Amazon to MARC

2011-01-17 Thread Galen Charlton
is relegated to a bracketed note in the 245$a, which doesn't help ILS designers trying to do something with the format designation such as limit searches on it. The 347$b proposed in DP04 can't come soon enough. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton gmcha...@gmail.com

Re: [RDA-L] Amazon to MARC

2011-01-17 Thread Galen Charlton
, than library books lacking MARC records to be found on Amazon. Though a great many commercially available DVDs can be found on Amazon, no? That said, I agree that a similar service built on IMDb would be very useful. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton gmcha...@gmail.com