12.11.2010 16:53, Jim Weinheimer wrote:
Myers, John F. wrote: <snip> This is what happens when we continue to coopt a communication standard developed to print cards for use as a vehicle to convey data in electronic interfaces. Nearly every quirk in MARC can be traced back to its foundation as a card printing mechanism (and the lack of programming sophistication when it was originally developed). </snip> One thing I think needs to be kept in mind is the purpose of the ISBD punctuation, which is language-independent. ...
All of this, and Mac's remarks as well, have been said *so* many times over *so* many years - to no effect whatsoever. This fruitless haggling over punctuation input continues ever further while ISBD is going down the drain anyway in the average OPACs. What hope can there be the much much more ambitious aspirations of RDA might ever become reality, to any extent, in this century or the next? B.Eversberg
