If anybody wants to tinker with the Z39.50 importer, here is some advice. The 245 field has sub-fields a and b; a is the title, b is the subtitle. These are reliably separated by:
_:_ where "_" is a space. Indeed, if you look at records imported that have both fields, you will see that BD imports it so that the title field has Title : subtitle It would be useful to strip the initial space because this is not how people usually want the separation between title and subtitle. This is pretty reliable---I would be surprised if there was a single record in the LOC catalog that wasn't like this. This punctuation was the standard when the card catalog was used, and it was carried over into the MARC age. (It is not a MARC standard though; it's part of the ISBD standard, International Standard Book Description). Another point of interest is that the initial character of sub-field b will not be capitalized, unless it's a proper name, in which case it will be. I suppose this is more of a matter of taste and style, but it seems to me rare that someone would want to produce BD output in which the first character of the sub-title is not capped. So maybe the importer should do this too. I think this is an ISBD standard as well---so pretty reliable. -Adam ================================= Adam M. Goldstein PhD MSLIS Assistant Professor of Philosophy Iona College -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.iona.edu/faculty/agoldstein/ tel: (914) 637-2717 post: Iona College Department of Philosophy 715 North Avenue New Rochelle, NY 10801 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
