Karen Coyle wrote: > To be sure, I am not at all convinced that RDA has the > necessary emphasis on DATA -- it seems to be heavily oriented > toward the use of text strings. I have an issue with creating > strings like "356 pages", not because of the change from "p." > to "pages" but because that is __a text string being used where > data should be__. It can't be easily used in algorithms, and it > definitely cannot be used by programs without doing > normalization on the string. We should be creating that as > data to begin with.
Very well said!!! Mary L. Mastraccio, MLS Cataloging & Authorities Librarian MARCIVE, Inc. San Antonio Texas 78265 1-800-531-7678 [email protected] www.marcive.com
