Karen Coyle wrote: > > Remember, "MARC" means many things. For import into library ILS's, the > content must follow AACR2 rules. Encoding the data in MARC tags and > subfields is not the sole criterion. > Whether it "must" follow AACR2 rules to be imported into your catalog or other library-hosted discovery interface is a claim subject to debate/disagreement, heh. I personally don't think that "must" is always a "must".
But I think I know what Karen is saying, and I think I agree: If what you are looking for is a free "bibliographic utility" suitable for finding records to import into your catalog --- that is not the mission or goal of the OL project, which I think is fine. Personally, I still think it would be convenient to have the actual live OL data as a MARC export (non-AACR2, but still using Marc21 tags as close-to-intended as possible). And for _some_ uses, I'd be willing to import such records in my local indexes, and having that data as MARC would sometimes make this a lot more convenient/less costly to do. Whether that would meet the needs of other people commenting on this thread, I have no idea. If they want something like OCLC but free, I don't think they're going to get it from OL, and I think that's fine, I don't know why anyone would think OL owes this to them. Jonathan _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
