Of interest .... Armanda
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Semantics of MARC Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:54:25 -0700 From: Kelley McGrath <[email protected]> Reply-To: MARC <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Given that LC is starting the work to transition to a post-MARC21 bibliographic framework (http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition/), I highly recommend Karen Coyle's article in the latest issue of the Code4Lib Journal at http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/5468. She discusses her attempts to identify the data elements that are contained in MARC. There are many of these due to the large number of subfields and indicators and the complicated interactions between MARC and AACR2/RDA/ISBD. It's a tangled thread to unravel, but one that will be important to grasp moving forward. Kelley
