Quoting "Kevin M. Randall" <[email protected]>:
Fields 760-787 have strictly speaking never been "dual function"
fields, because they are not defined in the MARC format as access
points
This got me excited and I popped into the online MARC documentation to
look at how it defines "access points" but I can't find that. I could
find a definition of headings, but that only covers X00-X30 (thus no
titles). Is there a definition of access points that I missed? Or are
you working from other knowledge, Kevin? If so, I'd like to hear more
about this distinction, because it is an important one and to me it
hasn't been clear in practice (from a systems developer point of
view). If it isn't made explicit in our current standards we should
try to make it clearer in any future ones.
kc
(regardless of whatever functionality may be provided in any
specific system). They are descriptive fields which may include
coded data in subfield $w intended to *refer out* to related
records. If access points are desired for the names/titles
appearing in those fields, 700-730 fields are to be used. (Sorry,
the increasingly common misunderstanding on this point is one of my
pet peeves...)
Kevin M. Randall
Principal Serials Cataloger
Bibliographic Services Dept.
Northwestern University Library
1970 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208-2300
email: [email protected]
phone: (847) 491-2939
fax: (847) 491-4345
-----Original Message-----
From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Jones
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 11:08 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Linked data
The transcribed fields correspond to ISBD areas 1-4 and 6 (245,
250, 362 [for
serials; other fields for some other formats], 260, and 4XX. Note fields may
also contain transcribed data in some cases, but note fields typically
consist of a single subfield and are already "consolidated" in this sense.
"Dual function" fields that serve both as notes and as access points (e.g.,
246, 760-785) might benefit from having these functions disentangled. For
example,
http://lccn.loc.gov/81642892, http://marc21.info/element/246, "Issues for
<2000-> have also acronym title: CCQ."
http://lccn.loc.gov/81642892, http://marc21.info/element/740, "CCQ"
I would be hesitant to combine data from all transcribed fields
into a single
field, if only because different applications might want the freedom to
display different subsets of this data.
Ed
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