At 12:39 PM 2/14/2011, Karen Coyle wrote:
There are possibilities, but I don't think any of them could be
considered cheap. At the same time, maybe it would be worth thinking
some of them through before rejecting the ideas outright.
(Brand-new subscriber jumps in with both feet, eyes closed.) There
are a number of things in the ISO standard that aren't implemented in
MARC21; the possibility of field length over 10,000 bytes is another
that comes to mind. All of these would, as Karen indicates, entail
significant expense to implement. Since reources aren't infinite, it
would be better to develop a coding scheme that does what we need to
do now and in the forseeable future, than to spend time putting more
patches on MARC21.
Gary L. Strawn, Authorities Librarian, etc.
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