- From: Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:09:16 -0700
- To: William Waites <ww-keyword-okfn.193365@styx.org>, William Waites <william.waites@okfn.org>
- Cc: Ross Singer <ross.singer@talis.com>, List for Working Group on Open Bibliographic Data <open-bibliography@lists.okfn.org>, "rufus.pollock@okfn.org" <rufus.pollock@okfn.org>, Ben O'Steen <bosteen@gmail.com>, public-xg-lld@w3.org
Quoting William Waites <william.waites@okfn.org>: > > As it is, it looks like a MARC record at a minimum consists in: > > * one xyz:Manifestation > o one dc:publisher > * one (implied) xyz:Work > o one or more dc:contributor (or sub-properties like author, > translator, etc) > o one or more identifiers, bibo:isbn bibo:issn etc > o one or more dc:subject from a controlled vocabulary William, I'm not quite sure what your "at a minimum" represents, so this answer may or may not fit your use case.... however, MARC doesn't actually have required fields, but most systems do make a small set mandatory. Most of the required ones are in the 00X range, and many of those are administrative data. Of the variable fields, the only one that I have seen as mandatory is the title (245). That would be the manifestation title. In case you haven't seen this, there are statistics on the actual field usage at: http://www.mcdu.unt.edu/?p=45 I also want to note that some of the more useful data comes out of the Leader and the 008 fields (resource type, date of publication, language). kc -- Karen Coyle kcoyle@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet
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