Bryan, Thanks for the clarification of the additional series tags - I was breaking it down to the most simplistic, but it wouldn't be good to leave out the other 8xx possibilities :)
I'll have to talk to our cataloging committee about the conversion of 440s to 490/830 pairs. In the past it seemed a daunting project, but the script may make it more manageable. Beth On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Bryan Baldus <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Elizabeth Longwell <[email protected]> wrote: >> Possible series entries come from 440$a$v as well as 800$t$v (paired with >> 490 entry). > > Of course, since 440 was made obsolete in 2008 [1], a first step might be to > convert all 440s to 490/830 pairs [2]. Then the indexing would need to cover > 800$t$n$p, 810$t$n$p, 811$t$n$p, 830$a$n$p, and possibly 490$a, depending on > whether you want to index uncontrolled series titles. > > [1] <http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd4xx.html> > [2] Example Perl script for converting extracted files of raw MARC 21 > records, though it doesn't currently deal with $x in the best manner: < > http://home.comcast.net/~eijabb/fullrecscripts/Cleanup_full_recs/440to490-830.txt> > > Thank you for your time, > > Bryan Baldus > Cataloger > Quality Books Inc. > The Best of America's Independent Presses > 1-800-323-4241x402 > [email protected] > [email protected] > http://home.comcast.net/~eijabb/ >
