Re: Slightly OT: MARC

Lars Heuer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.xtm.general
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Hi Maria,

[LCC and ISBN]

Thanks! :)

> I believe that would be better to use MODS records. They are a selected
> subset of MARC21 records and there are XSLT file for conversion.

Can you explain why MODS is better than MARC? How could a subset of
MARC be better than its superset? How could MODS provide a unique
identifier (which is not provided by MARC as far as I understood)?
Does it provide any globally unique identifier?

Best regards,
Lars
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