Re: Slightly OT: MARC
Alexander Johannesen <[email protected]>
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>> 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. On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:23 AM, marijane white <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. Only if you use ISO2709 as a wrapper. There's a few systems out there that does, but they do not deserve any mercy, should be taken outside and shot! There are some field size limitations, for sure, but I've seen this come up more in relation to OpenURL's (as they get terribly long ... it's a library standard after all :) than anything else. But yeah, it's a bit of a silly limitation when you're developing solution, but then, constraints are the mother of all funny inventions. Regards, Alex -- Project Wrangler, SOA, Information Alchemist, UX, RESTafarian, Topic Maps --- http://shelter.nu/blog/ ---------------------------------------------- ------------------ http://www.google.com/profiles/alexander.johannesen ---