Re: Slightly OT: MARC

marijane white <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.xtm.general
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On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Alexander Johannesen <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Funny part is that MARC itself as a wrapper has room for incorporating
> new identifiers, so all that needs to happen is for the library world
> to recognize the problem and adopt a solution to it.
>


It does, but I seem to recall folks on NGC4LIB and/or CODE4LIB saying it's
tricky to do so because there is a limit on the length of a MARC record due
to ISO 2709 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_2709>.


-marijane

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