MARC21 as Data: A Start

The forty-five-year-old MARC format, currently at version MARC21, is an obvious barrier to the provision of library services in a web-based environment. There is a growing consensus that the time has come for libraries to move to a new format. We cannot, however, decide on a new data format until we at least have an inventory of the data elements that are carried in our current one. Listing those

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カレン・コイル！　次の書誌フォーマット（未定）へ移行するためにMARC21のフィールド―ここではcontrol fields (00X)、number and code fields (0XX)、descriptive fields (XXX)の3種類を取り上げている―を丹念に検証。