Re: Slightly OT: MARC
MARIA JESUS COLMENERO RUIZ <[email protected]>
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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 > -- > Semagia > <http://www.semagia.com/> > _______________________________________________ > topicmapmail mailing list > topicmapmail-Zo64W7twoUFWk0Htik3J/[email protected] > http://www.infoloom.com/mailman/listinfo/topicmapmail > -- ********************************************* Mª Jesús Colmenero Ruiz Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Dpto. Biblioteconomía y Documentación C/Madrid, 126. 28903 Getafe (MADRID). SPAIN Despacho 14.2.26 TLF. +34 91 624 84 68 | FAX. +34 91 624 92 12 *********************************************