Yes, it's basically undoable in our setup. Parsing is done separately  
from the searching, the parser knows nothing of where it came from  
(it could have come from a drop). Also it is pretty complex, not just  
a matter of mapping, there is also a lot of cleaning and other  
special case logic. And the difference in different servers are often  
more in the cleaning and special casing than in the mapping.

Christiaan

On 6 Oct 2007, at 5:26 PM, Simon Spiegel wrote:

>>
>> The mappings of MARC are pretty vague and non-unique. For example
>> field 653 is described as a :uncontrolled index term". Also how they
>> are used in practice varies widely. So we only map fields that seem
>> sensible and widely used consistently. Otherwise you get a lot of
>> wrong and messy bibtex.
>
> I know this has been discussed before, but I still want to bring it
> up again. Would it mean much work to have specific mappings for each
> different server? I think this would make the z39.50 search functions
> even more useable.
>
> simon
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