Re: Slightly OT: MARC

MARIA JESUS COLMENERO RUIZ <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.xtm.general
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Hi Lars:

I didn´t understand you. You was looking for an unique identifier. 
Forget MODS for this task. :-)

As Patrick said:
> Shocking answer: There are *no* global identifiers.

> There are no global identifiers for movies.  There are no global 
> identifiers for musical works.

ISBN is an *not perfect* identifier but the one in a MARC record for a 
book (yes, only books).

Best regards,
María Jesús


Lars Heuer <[email protected]> dijo:

> 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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