Quoting Galen Charlton <[email protected]>:
The other thing that struck me is that there are some data elements available in Amazon's data that don't yet have a direct home in an RDA/MARC record. Consider: http://amazon.libcat.org/cgi-bin/az2marc.pl?kw=B000ZELISO "Blu ray" is relegated to a bracketed note in the 245$a, which doesn't help ILS designers trying to do something with the format designation such as limit searches on it. The 347$b proposed in DP04 can't come soon enough.
Amazon definitely has formats that I don't recall seeing in library records, unless as parenthetical information following the 020 -- paperback, trade paperback, Kindle edition, library binding. Maybe we would need to translate these to a smaller set for 347$b? It would be nice to store this data, yet adding it to the end of the ISBN is a horrible practice, requiring parsing of that subfield to extract the actual ISBN.
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