James Weinheimer, speculating on the effects of moving MARC data to RDF XML, said at one point
" Compare this [loss of subfielding in 6XX fields] to losing the subfields in the 1xx/7xx, where the consequences would appear to be much fewer." I'm not expert in XML, but I would surmise that losing the ability to distinguish the title subelements from the name of a person in what is now a MARC 700 12 field (i.e. an analytical added entry) would have detrimental effects for retrieval of music materials. There are times when it's desirable to provide title phrase or keyword access to the title subelements in such fields. Simply saying that those subelements will occupy an XML title field (somewhat equivalent to a MARC 740 02 added entry) runs the risk, I fear, of losing the link between the name of the person and the title. That link is currently broken in our library's public catalog in terms of search redirection, and the lack of the link causes all sorts of mischief. Or I could be misunderstanding the entire thing and exposing my Luddite self. It's happened before. Mark Scharff, Music Cataloger Gaylord Music Library Washington University in St. Louis mscha...@wustl.edu<mailto:mscha...@wustl.edu> Mark Scharff, Music Cataloger Gaylord Music Library Washington University in St. Louis mscha...@wustl.edu<mailto:mscha...@wustl.edu>
