Karen Coyle wrote,
... recent Code4Lib journal:
http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/5468
> One of the difficulties of deciding what we do and do not want to keep
> in MARC, or what we want to move over to the RDA environment, is that we
> have no dictionary of everything that MARC covers. For example, what
> standard identifiers are available in MARC? They are scattered all
over the format,...
Yours is a worthwhile endeavor, no doubt.
You may try a database which, although as good as current current, has
been in
existence for a long time and under a somewhat old-fashioned interface.
And it covers not just MARC but several other formats as well, even
Unimarc and
the old BNBMARC and a few more obscure ones.
You get into the alphabetical list of field and subfield names
directly like this, (add your keyword to the end of it)
http://www.biblio.tu-bs.de/db/formate/page.php?urG=KWD&urA=24&urS=
There's also a MARC tag index:
http://www.biblio.tu-bs.de/db/formate/page.php?urG=MRC&urA=24&urS=...
The alphabetical listing contains all sorts of words, even German ones,
but all the MARC terms are marked M21 plus the actual MARC tag.
May it help,
B.Eversberg
