There's also the possibility that the "complete works" can be published while
the author is still alive; so they're "complete" (whatever that might mean) as
of the time of publication, but there may be more in the future.
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ecord combines expressions in different forms (such as print and online).
We plan to untangle as many of our lumped-together records as we can before we
RDA-ize our database with a batch program.
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Has anyone mentioned the 542 field?
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Forsan et haec olim meminisse
Changing the topical Holmes heading to personal is indeed possible with the
cataloger's toolkit. Instructions have been sent privately.
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e
, we'll delete them.
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rch) is "bound with" which might be illuminating but is a
special case. If the securing within portfolio covers is "binding" then you
have a volume.
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iated ǂb n ǂ2 rdamedia ǂ3 book
338 volume ǂb nc ǂ2 rdacarrier ǂ3 book
336 two-dimensional moving image ǂb tdi ǂ2 rdacontent ǂ3 DVD-ROM
337 computer ǂb c ǂ2 rdamedia ǂ3 DVD-ROM
337 video ǂb v ǂ2 rdamedia ǂ3 DVD-ROM
338 computer disc ǂb cd ǂ2 rdacarrier ǂ3 DVD-ROM
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enter [two in one!]
Almagordo, N.M.
Social siences
(And don't even get me started on "Hierarchical" in subfield $i!)
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Since there's no one-for-one correspondence, I think the best thing is just to
delete 'em. I'd be delighted if they were all deleted in a batch…
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database worth of "&" headings is a very long slog no
matter how you do it. You didn't have any plans for the summer, did you?
One of the fun (?) things one runs into with "&" headings is pre-RDA headings
for librettos, which are a whole study unto themselves…
Gary
adversely affecting our databases.
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Thanks for the questions. See below.
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r. I have thoughts of
writing that program along the lines of the program that does the RDA heading
stuff: for Voyager users the program could read from and write to the database
directly; for others the program could read and write files of MARC records.
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hybrid catalog?
Thanks,
Chris
Chris Fox
Catalog Librarian
McKay Library
Brigham Young Univ.-Idaho
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[mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Gary L Strawn
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removing 245 $h, expanding
abbreviations and no doubt other stuff) in the next year or two.
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Forsan et ha
The conversion program was told to examine records in LC's copy of the LC/NACO
Authority File in sequential order, from first to last.
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begins "Program for the manipulation
..."
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Yes, you're absolutely right; de-sicing will require re-examination of the
item. That's one of the several reasons I've deferred it until the RDA
conversion is over.
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and 740 $a. ("[sic]" is coming soon, once the RDA conversion is
complete.) This required a judicious addition of title access points, 240s,
and notes.
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Details on subfield $w are in the MARC documentation; scroll down to "$w -
Control subfield": http://www.loc.gov/marc/authority/adtracing.html
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NOTE MOST CAREFULLY however that I have not yet posted here a version of the
program that creates this new output file, and I have not yet updated the
documentation to correspond. That'll probably happen tomorrow afternoon.
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if displayed
can be distinguished from those (mostly I think older ones, that summarize
information on an authority or official catalog card) that might not be wanted
in a public display.
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ht, for example, have created a microform record
and later added to it an 856 for direct access; and later withdrawn the
microform. The important markers in the bib record can easily still relate to
the microform.
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8096 records, of which 338 have both $b and $e; in 338 of these,
$b comes before $e
File 1 has 3950 records, of which 171 have both $b and $e; in 171 of these,
$b comes before $e
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.
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Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit. BatchCat version: 2007.22.416
-Original Message
46: : |s 16
100:1 : |a Smith, Robert, |d 17th century
400:1 : |w nnea |a Smith, Robert, |d 17th cent.
670: : |a His Justicia prestigiosa, 1643: |b p. A2 (Robert Smith)
670: : |a BM |b (Smith, Robert, of Southwark?)
675: : |a DNB.
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e subfield in a predictable location, so the eye can be trained to
catch it reliably; the institution making the upgrade can always be identified
by viewing the record's history.
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I wish to avoid dipping into the specifics of this question, but: In the
gleaming future in which we no longer rely on pre-constructed heading strings,
one will be able to display the information in the 046 field (or its
equivalent) as seems best.
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The URL continues to a second line in the original message.
http://files.library.northwestern.edu/public/pccahitg/RDA_conversion.Phases.doc
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Sorry; it's been reported that the URLs don't work. Try these:
http://files.library.northwestern.edu/public/pccahitg/RDA%20conversion.Subfield%20c.doc
http://files.library.northwestern.edu/public/pccahitg/RDA%20conversion.Subfield%20c.xls
Gary L. Strawn, Authorities Libr
. 29, 2012.
The time it will take to provide this input is acknowledged and greatly
appreciated by the task group. Thank you.
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I'm having a very hard time understanding why FLB wouldn't be a simple ol'
corporate body, without any artistic entanglements.
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tween the hyphenated and non-hyphenated forms
of an ISBN is perfectly programmable, and lossless. If there exists a
conversion service that doesn't handle the full range of ISBNs, it appears to
be a matter of not having troubled to do the work for all of the possibilities,
rather
Research, University of Chicago, University of Florida, University of Missouri,
University of Toronto, Washington State Library and Yale University were
selected from forty applicants to participate in the MARC pilot project,
founded by CLR (1966-1968).
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stipulation,
which is far easier to do, than to come up with new 260 subfield
coding which departs from past practice as now being proposed to MARBI.
I think my point was that the $c subfield, though repeatable, cannot
currently be repeated for the purpose described.
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"Multiple adjacent publication dates such as a date of
publication and copyright date are recorded in a single subfield $c."
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when the institution realizes the error, instead of reporting the
duplicate for deletion it changes the second record to represent some
completely different entity. In this case the linking number is the
same but the entity it represents is different.
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differentiating characteristic of last resort.
In fact, the first time I read through the draft RDA, I thought that
this is what was intended ...
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rolled out ILSs that
feature "technology [which] already exists, as we can see on the
likes of Amazon"?
Our current ILS (Voyager) doesn't even take full advantage of the
coding in authority 4XX/5XX subfield $w, which has been around since
the 1970s...
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e, 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.
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