26.09.2012 14:46, Brenndorfer, Thomas:
The status quo assumes we have to get main and added entries correct, and punctuation and order of elements correct, and so on, as the primary baseline to measure compliance with standards-- but this approach doesn't address what's possible with newer technologies, and how best to support the data as data using industry conventions for managing data.
Agreed, but this cannot be blamed on AAXR2+MARC21 and will not go away once these go out the window. MARC21 can well describe the very same entities RDA has in mind, and can encode just the same relationships. The mental image of cards, enshrined and embodied though is in MARC's rough outline, is what has to go. Punctuation becomes ever a minor issue as more subfields are introduced to make more elements addressable, order of elements is not maintained by all systems and mostly not reflecxted in OPACs anyway. Those are fringe issues. I've never been an ardent supporter of MARC, but it is often criticized for all the wrong reasons. Wondering, btw, why there's no input here from the BIBFRAME people. Not that much traffic on their own list to keep them from everything else. B.Eversberg
