Quoting Karen Coyle <[email protected]>:
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.
In 1978 020 $b (binding information) was cancelled and that data was
made a parenthetical addition to $a.
Another false move...
Hal Cain
Melbourne, Australia
[email protected]
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